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April 14, 2011: Nashville Tennessean rehires Erin Cubert — as director of social media

Karen Lee-Ryan — director of online content for the Nashville Tennessean — announced today: We’ve hired a new Social Media Director, and many of you already know her name: Erin Cubert. Erin is the person who started The Tennessean’s social media efforts nearly three years ago. In the revamped social media job, she’ll not only to strategically manage our Twitter, Facebook, [...]

Oct. 25, 2010: Conference on privacy, the press and social media

Janna Fischer – a former designer who left her job at the Denver Post last year to study law at the University of Colorado — writes to tell us about a very interesting conference coming up in December: How often do you use Facebook as a source? Have you had any conversations in your newsroom about if you should be? [...]

Oct. 23, 2010: The most exclusive FourSquare badge ever

I don’t mess around much with FourSquare, nor do I care to read much about it. But I must admit, this is cool. And funny as hell. Talk about an exclusive FourSquare badge: “Douglas W.” is NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock. And yeah, he’s in space right now: Find Douglas’ Twitter feed here. Go here for more information about the [...]

Oct. 20, 2010: A wicked parody of newsroom use of social media (2)

Apparently brought to us by Fox 4, KDFW-TV in Dallas. Enjoy: Thanks to Wes Rand for posting this today on, um, Facebook.

Oct. 19, 2010: St. Louis’ Erica Smith promoted to social media editor

The official announcement today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Erica Smith will take on a new assignment as the newsroom’s social media editor. Erica will be our point person as we explore our use of social media tools too tell stories and promote our work. She also coordinate newsroom efforts in this area with efforts going on in the rest [...]

Oct. 1, 2010: Why you have to be careful when you tweet (5)

Hey, I’m convinced. Despite my earlier skepticism, I see Twitter now as a valuable tool. For getting news out about my blog, in my case, at least among a relatively small number of “early adopter” types. But especially as a place to find news tips that can turn into blog posts. Twitter gives me a hell of a head start [...]

Oct. 1, 2010: A Facebook-like treatment for the ‘Facebook’ movie (5)

Andy Neumann of the Scripps Howard central design desk in Corpus Christi, Texas, writes: I did a layout for the AP review of The Social Network in the style of a Facebook page. My editors really liked it and told me I should enter it in contests when the time comes. I figured I’d send a copy your way, get [...]

Sept. 14, 2010: Dilbert takes on social media

The Dilbert comic strip this week takes on social media. Click either of the strips below for a larger view. Here was yesterday’s strip, lampooning the way companies want to embrace the power of social media, but don’t trust it yet: And here is today’s installment: As always, funny stuff from Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s official home on the web [...]

July 22, 2010: Poynter pours dozens of vintage seminar photos into Facebook page

The folks at Poynter pulled off a very simple stroke of genius today. Hoping to pull all seminar alumni together — virtually — for the school’s 35th anniversary this year, the Poynter Institute of St. Petersburg, Fla., dug deep into the archives and posted — on Facebook – dozens and dozens of group shots from over the years. I attended [...]

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