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"November 14, 2013 News Use Across Social Media Platforms By Jesse Holcomb, Jeffrey Gottfried and Amy Mitchell How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news? How many people engage with news across multiple social sites? And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms? As part of an ongoing examination of social media and news, the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation analyzed the characteristics of news consumers and the size of their population across 11 social networking sites. News plays a varying role across the social networking sites.1 Roughly half of both Facebook and Twitter users get news on those sites, earlier reports have shown. On YouTube, that is true of only one-fifth of its user base, and for LinkedIn, the number is even smaller. And Pinterest, a social pin board for visual content, is hardly used for news at all."

National Center for Media Engagement [pdf] http://www.mediaengage.org/ Funded by the Center for Public Broadcasting, the National Center for Media Engagement is dedicated to supporting "public media organizations nationwide in engaging their communities." They provide resources for stations and producers to engage citizens in a range of platforms, and their website is a great place to learn about their work. On the homepage, visitors will find seven sections, including "Think & Strategize", "Plan & Design", "Execute", "Renew & Upgrade" and "Communicate Impact". Public media organizations will be able to use these sections to use social media to communicate their mission to the public. Further down on the homepage, visitors can also learn about "Public Media Stories of Impact". These stories are taken from a range of public media organizations, such as pieces from Austin on the arts community and Columbus, Ohio's work on community engagement. It's also worth taking a look at their blog, which contains direct links to other resources created by public radio and television stations from around the United States. [KMG]

How the Associated Press uses Twitter & Facebook 12 The Associated Press uses social media both to gather and disseminating information, approaching each social network differently. "Part of what we're doing is sharing content in a curated way," Eric Carvin, the AP's social media editor, tells DigiDay. "It helps as news gathering; if we're looking to find someone who has amateur video, we put out a call and a good chance we'll hear back from people." "When big news breaks, (Twitter is) one of the first tools we turn to to see if people are on the ground there, to get right to - and looking for - expert sources," said Carvin…. The AP also uses Twitter for promoting its own reporters, as well as its other social accounts. A big part of its overall strategy, according to Carvin, is to highlight the expertise of AP people around the world…. The AP finds that Facebook, not Twitter, is the best social tool for engagement. It has five or six accounts that actively communicates with its fans. It also does a lot of crowdsourcing on Facebook. Carvin highlighted the AP's use of crowdsourcing memories for the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He said they received dozens of responses that were thoughtful and interesting, and in a nimble move, decided to take many and put them out as two separate stories across the wire. "It contributed to our journalism," he said. However, Carvin noted that the AP has scaled back its use of Facebook. What used to be hourly posts now are between four and six per day. "We go to Twitter for breaking news, not Facebook," Carvin said. "If it's important, we'll toss it onto Twitter right away. We go to Facebook only when it's transcendent. Twitter is a breaking news platform, both in terms of what we put out and how we gather news. If news breaks, we look to Twitter more than Facebook."

Survey: Public prefers news from professional journalists eynolds Journalism Institute The public's trust in the institution of the press may be fading, and digital platforms have opened the publishing world to anyone with a desire to speak, but it seems professional journalists themselves are not seen as obsolete. More than 60 percent of U.S. adults say they "prefer news stories produced by professional journalists," and more than 70 percent agree that "professional journalists play an important role in our society," according to new survey data from the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Respondents also disagreed with a social-media-centric model (that most news should come through trusted friends) and disagreed that it doesn't matter who produces the news.

"LIVESTREAM: Truth and Trust in the 21st Century: New Ethics of Journalism 0 inShare By Mark Glaser November 13, 2013 In an era of social media and lightning-fast breaking news, how do you sort truth from fiction? Today, you can watch and listen in as a panel of traditional and new media practitioners discuss how they make ethical decisions on what to post and when. Produced by The Poynter Institute and MediaShift, "Truth and Trust in the 21st Century," will expand on the essays in the new book, "The New Ethics of Journalism," edited by Poynter senior faculty Kelly McBride and Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute. McBride will moderate a panel on stage, and include a selection of diverse voices from the audience. The discussion will include recent case studies, how decisions were made and tips on how to get at the truth - and create trust - in the social age. Starting at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 3:30 pm Pacific Time, you can watch the event live below. If you'd like to be part of the conversation, you can offer up comments and questions to be mentioned in the discussion via Twitter with the hashtag #newethics. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter with the #newethics hashtag, which is embedded below."

Life and Code What I learned about life from programming | newshackery Who are you and why are you writing this blog? Why are you learning to code? How are you learning to code? Where can I find your code? I want to code - how do I get started? 2011.09.29 10 Technical Skills for Local Publishers This was published for Block By Block 2011, the largest gathering of independent local publishers. I love you guys! Embedded media. And not just YouTube! Check out Scribd, which lets you embed documents, Soundcloud for audio, Timeglider for animated timelines, Storify for curating tweets and more from your community. Install your CMS from scratch. Don't just be someone who can add content to your site: be your site's resident Ninja. For popular content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal, you can find excellent video-based classes on Lynda.com. And it's cheap - $35/month for all you can eat training. Tweak your theme. So you have a new advertiser. Great! Oh, but you have to move things around to put up that ad. Darn. See Tweak your Wordpress Theme for starters. Google Analytics. You can't grow it until you can show it, and showing it starts with understanding your analytics. Good book with a scary title: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics. Check out the section on the "Ten Essential Google Analytics Reports." How to build a social media "listening post." When I ran a local site, I subscribed to 400 RSS feeds. Why? Because by the time I woke up, I generally had 3-5 stories just from that source alone. Start by learning how to use a desktop RSS aggregator like NetNewsWire for the Mac or FeedDemon for Windows - they're much more powerful and faster than Google Reader. Fusion tables/Google Maps Nothing scares the crap out of your local paper like a fancy interactive map that you toss off over a weekend. Fusion Tables tutorial. Hack Ye The Publick Da

8 Creative Ways to Use Embeddable Tweets By Charlene Kingston Published March 27, 2012 Printer-Friendly social media how toWhat if your Twitter conversations could expand to include more people from your online community? Now you can thanks to embedded tweets, a new feature from Twitter. Sharing Tweets Outside of Twitter Embedded tweets allow you to take a tweet or a conversation and post it on your website or in a blog post. You can use this feature to share your Twitter conversation with a larger audience. But more than that, the embedded tweets have interactive features. From an embedded tweet, a visitor to your website or a blog post reader can: Reply to the tweet and join the conversation. Share the conversation with their Twitter community using retweet. Mark the tweet as a favorite. View the Twitter profile of the tweet author. Follow the tweet author. View tweet replies by clicking the tweet date.

Our Mission We want to see non-profits succeed because they do so much for the world. They fight for freedom, they feed the hungry, they provide opportunities, and much more. Unfortunately, non-profits struggle with technology and fundraising, hurdles that hold back the creation and scaling of social good. We hope to change that through CauseVox. Resources Support Center Media Kit About Us CauseVox is a startup based in NYC. Our experience in the non-profit sector inspired us to create a company that serves the needs of a greatly underserved group -- small to medium sized non-profits. We've been dabbling with fundraising technology since 2007 and our trip to Uganda, a few years ago, was the catalyst for CauseVox. Eventually, we were bold enough to quit our corporate jobs and focus full-time on CauseVox. Here's a little about us. http://www.causevox.com/about

The Demographics of Mobile News December 11, 2012 Men, College Grads and the Young are More Engaged In the growing realm of mobile news, men and the more highly educated emerge as more engaged news consumers, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, in collaboration with The Economist Group. These findings parallel, for the most part, demographic patterns of general news consumption. But there are some important areas of difference between mobile and general news habits-particularly among young people. While they are much lighter news consumers generally and have largely abandoned the print news product, young people get news on mobile devices to similar degrees as older users. And, when getting news through apps, young people say they prefer a print-like experience over one with high-tech or multi-media features. These are key findings of an analysis of mobile news habits across a variety of demographic groups. This report builds off an earlier PEJ and The Economist Group report, The Future of Mobile News, which found that half of U.S. adults now own mobile devices and a majority use them for news. Both reports are based on a survey of 9,513 U.S. adults conducted from June-August 2012 (including 4,638 mobile device owners). Men, especially young men, are heavier mobile news consumers than women. More than 40% of men get news daily on either their smartphone and/or tablet, compared with roughly 30% of women. On the tablet specifically, men check in for news more frequently and are more apt to read in-depth news articles and to watch news videos. Women, on the other hand, are more likely than men to use social networks as a way to get news.

Social Media Journalists on Election Day In the four years since the last presidential election, digital journalism has sprouted in different directions, allowing reporters to not only distribute their work in more ways but to create personal brands within their identity as journalists. Election Day 2012 demonstrated this growth.

Survey: Local TV is considered the most trustworthy source of news (Credit: Los Angeles Times) Highlights from the just-released USC Annenberg-Los Angeles Times Poll on Politics and the Press: * More than half of voters (58%) say they watch local television news broadcasts daily; older Americans are far more likely than younger voters to rely on television for their news. * Thirty-nine percent of voters read their local newspaper in print or online each day. * Thirty-five percent of voters watch the national nightly network news each day and 16 percent read a national newspaper like USA Today, the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times daily, either in print or online. * Voters are more likely to tune in to NPR on a daily basis (19%) than conservative talk shows like the Rush Limbaugh Show (12%).