Social media strategy 
Stories with significant social referrals have longer 'lifespan'
The latest Parse.ly authority report reveals how traffic from social networks can impact on an article's shelf life
Posted by Abigail Edge on 15/04/15How CASM is exploring new tools for Twitter analysis
Demos, the University of Sussex, and Ipsos MORI are building 'new research methods for social media'
Posted by Jack Shepherd on 13/04/15Tip: Check out these techniques for newsgathering on Twitter
Twitter tips for journalists covering the UK general election from WSJ's social media editor EMEA Sarah Marshall
Posted by Abigail Edge on 09/04/15Tip: Check out these updated social media guidelines from the BBC
The Beeb issues new staff guidance for user-generated content, chat apps and new social media platforms
Posted by Abigail Edge on 01/04/1510 apps and tools for monitoring a location or local patch
A list of resources for regional and hyperlocal reporters keeping watch over a local patch, also useful for tracking breaking news in a specific location
Posted by Abigail Edge on 30/03/155 tips for publishers from Pinterest
Pinterest's head of international Matt Crystal shared his advice for journalists and publishers at the Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin yesterday
Posted by Alastair Reid on 24/03/15App for journalists: TwitShot, for attaching Twitter images from links
Automatically grab images from links before tweeting with this nifty app for iOS and web
Posted by Abigail Edge on 04/03/157 tips for journalists managing Google+ Communities
Storyful's Joe Galvin and social media expert Sue Llewellyn share lessons learned from their own Google+ Communities, successful or not
Posted by Abigail Edge on 02/03/15Tip: Remember this advice for live-tweeting risky situations
How can journalists at the scene of something like a police stand-off report the incident live on social media without jeopardising anyone's safety?
Posted by Abigail Edge on 27/02/15Tip: Check out this analysis of an engaging tweet
Wright Bryan of NPR's Social Media Desk shares six ways to super-charge engagement on Twitter
Posted by Abigail Edge on 24/02/15Tips for live coverage of breaking news from the BBC and Reported.ly
Advice for covering breaking stories on live blogs and social media from the BBC's Mark Frankel and Reported.ly's Malachy Browne
Posted by Abigail Edge on 17/02/15Advice for journalists on dealing with online abuse
With female journalists more likely than men to be on the receiving end of online harassment, three women discuss their experience of abuse and how they handled it
Posted by Abigail Edge on 12/12/14Why Gruppo Espresso built a publishing 'playground'
New site 3nz.it, launched in October, has quickly generated a large audience while allowing the publisher to experiment with new ideas
Posted by Alastair Reid on 27/11/14Best practice tips for eyewitness media from #NX14
At the News Xchange conference in Prague, experts in eyewitness media from GuardianWitness, CNN and Storyful discussed advice for newsrooms managing user generated content around breaking news events
Posted by Abigail Edge on 13/11/145 tools Storyful recommends for social media monitoring
Malachy Browne, news editor at the social newswire, shares some advice for monitoring and verifying news from social media
Posted by Abigail Edge on 12/11/14Tip: Get email alerts for other Twitter accounts
A useful guide for the automated monitoring of Twitter accounts
Posted by Alastair Reid on 12/09/14Inside Storyful's revamped newswire service
The social newswire recently relaunched its dashboard aimed at helping journalists discover multimedia, stories, updates and tweets around news
Posted by Alastair Reid on 05/09/14Social content - getting your material liked and shared
What content works well on social media? What motivates people to share? In this week's podcast we look at how publishers are tapping into people's emotions and engaging online audiences in new ways.
Posted by Paul McNally on 29/08/14#Tip: How to use BuzzSumo to monitor social analytics
Five ways the social media analytics tool can help you better understand your audience
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Five key courses for journalists in September
We are organising courses in data journalism, iPhone reporting, open data for journalists and creating a buzz on social media
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 31 July 2013Beet.TV: The New York Times, real-time advertising and Twitter trending data
Beet.TV has an interesting video with Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research & development, and operations at the New York Times, in which he discusses a new advertising tool called Spark which utilises the Times’s data on stories trending on social media. According to Beet.TV the tool “serves display advertising into stories as they are [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 February 2013Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout
A look at the four main points which came out of a Google+ Hangout, hosted by Storyful on the subject of verification during Hurricane Sandy
Posted by Rob Grant on 11 December 2012Study: Fewer UK journalists feel social media improves productivity in 2012 than in 2011
An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision. The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 September 2012#wef12: Why news outlets must embrace a participatory culture
Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 4 September 2012Guardian US, #smarttakes and 'pop-up aggregation'
The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 July 2012How important are 'tweet' and 'like' buttons to news publishers?
A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects
Posted by Daniel Bentley on 1 June 2012Online news startups need help converting readers into supporters
A report by J-Lab has found that even though online news start-ups have access to a wide range of social media tools, they struggle with how to measure their impact
Posted by Daniel Bentley on 31 May 2012#GEN2012: Interactive graphics case studies from the Guardian
The Guardian's Alastair Dant shares the news outlet's approach to using interactivity to present data and stories to their audience
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30 May 2012Bitly launches 'bitmark' social bookmarking service
Bitly, the popular link shortener used by lots of news websites, announces its ‘bitmark’ service
Posted by Daniel Bentley on 29 May 2012Guardian's n0tice launches Facebook sharing app
Online noticeboard n0tice launches app to auto-post updates to Facebook
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 1 May 2012Tool of the week for journalists: Muck Rack
Muck Rack is a site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists
Posted by James Chapple on 5 April 2012Economist seeks to build relationships with 1m Facebook fans
'It's about building relationships on Facebook and monetizing outside', according to the Economist's global publisher, digital editions
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 29 March 2012Searchmetrics: Financial Times is news outlet with most Google+ followers
Daily Mail and Telegraph stories get most Google +1 recommendations
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22 March 2012Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver
'It's only a matter of time until social overtakes search for the Guardian,' says Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News and Media
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 21 March 2012Digital news editor @fieldproducer leaving Sky News
Sky News's digital news editor Neal Mann, known to 43,000 people on Twitter as @fieldproducer, has announced he has decided to leave the broadcaster.
Posted by Paul McNally on 19 March 2012Sky News Twitter restrictions - where do you stand?
Sky News emails staff telling them not to retweet - a round-up of opinion
Posted by Paul McNally on 8 February 2012Tool of the week for journalists - Rippla, for tracking the social 'ripples' of news stories
A tool for tracking the sharing of news stories on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20 December 2011Tool of the week for journalists - Playground, to monitor social media analytics
This new platform helps you monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs and could become a favourite tool of data journalists
Posted by Marianne Bouchart on 29 November 2011Rippla, a site to monitor the social media 'ripples' of news stories, launches
You can now see how stories from the UK's top 10 news sites are shared on social media – and view the social media 'ripples' created by stories on your own news site
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'Let's be careful where we step': In praise of slow journalism
John Esslin, a reporter at The Record in New Jersey used the story of the 'stolen Batmobile' as a cautionary tale for journalists who publish without first checking the facts
Posted by Abigail Edge on 29/04/15