Andy Bull

Michael Hastings' ten tips to aspiring journalists - Washington Post (blog)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:54 -0400

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ABC News Michael Hastings’ ten tips to aspiring journalists Washington Post (blog) Hastings is today, and will likely continue to be, remembered as the journalist who brought down a four-star general and the face of the war in Afghanistan.
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6 Ways Instagram Could Beat Vine at Video Sharing

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:17:31 -0400

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War is a-brewin’. Video sharing has been slow to become part and parcel of our everyday schemata of social media, but with the success of Vine, competitors are scrambling to get in on the action. Among them?
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Not feeling up to speed on drone journalism?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:03:29 -0400

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“New perspectives from the sky,” a study by Dr. Mark Tremayne and Andrew Clark published in Digital Journalism, can help you with that.
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Community Managers: 5 Reporting Tactics For Your First Day on the Job

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:02:13 -0400

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Starting a new job can be daunting. As a community or social media manager, the fact that you get to talk to people on Twitter doesn’t make this any less true.

Andy Bull’s insight:

This post is heavy on the promo for Simply Measured, but contains a lot of good advice

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How to tell if a journalist is a patsy (used!) - Gretawire (blog)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:43:13 -0400

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How to tell if a journalist is a patsy (used!

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Journalism schools: stop preparing students for the past - Globe and Mail

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:41:49 -0400

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Journalism schools have to go where the puck is Globe and Mail Journalism schools are caught in a dilemma: Should journalism curricula reflect the media’s needs as they are now or should J-schools be more experimental and in effect, become think…

Andy Bull’s insight:

This from the post: “Journalism schools and organizations need to stop being complicit in preparing students for the past. The courses still taught most often teach skills that worked well 10 to 20 years ago. But media organizations haven’t been clear either about what they want or need from J-schools.

Innovation in our journalism schools remains the needed and missing link that will blend new and old skills along with an appreciation of the business challenges that threaten the survival of journalism as we have known it.”

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Poutsch launches its addictive social polling service on the iPhone - The Next Web

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:38:15 -0400

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Poutsch launches its addictive social polling service on the iPhone
The Next Web
With this move, the startup is clearly pushing the social aspects of its network.

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The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi? A Scrap of Privacy - Wired

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:37:09 -0400

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Wired
The Price to Pay for Facebook’s Free Wi-Fi?

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[STUDY] Customer Service: What’s Working on Twitter

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:33:02 -0400

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More of the Interbrand top 100 brands are adopting dedicated support handles, and those already committed to serving customers are improving their responsiveness.

Andy Bull’s insight:

I see custoemr service as an integral part of a brand journalism strategy, hence include this post here

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The Times of London, navigating audience with a strict paywall, retires its opinion Tumblr

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:31:23 -0400

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When you bet on a strict, un-leaky paywall as The Times of London has, you’re forced to get creative about how to put your work in front of new audiences — particularly if you’re trying to influence their opinions.

Andy Bull’s insight:

I think the problem here may have been the Tumblr platform itself - a bad fit for The Times I’d say

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Contently Introduces Online Magazine to Cover Content Marketing - Adweek

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:28:09 -0400

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Adweek
Contently Introduces Online Magazine to Cover Content Marketing
Adweek
Contently is launching an online magazine focused on the very topic the company cares about most: content marketing.

Andy Bull’s insight:

A B2B mag for brand journalists

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HubSpot Partners with charity: water

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:26:51 -0400

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http://inbound.com charity: water has partnered with HubSpot to inspire a movement to solve the world’s water crisis using inbound. charity: water’s greatest… (changing the world with #inbound, its about more than marketing.

Andy Bull’s insight:

charity: water is a fascinating example of a company doing great brand journalism, and at the same time reinventing how a charity should work. This Hubspot promo is pretty corporate, but the video is a useful insight into what charity: water does, and how.

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How to Celebrate Your Small Business with Instagram, Vine, and Pinterest

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:22:24 -0400

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How does a business make their start-up come alive online without creating dozens of profiles for social platforms?

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Red Bull Media House

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:48:11 -0400

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A snowboarder floats up-side down over a thicket of trees and sticks his hand out to brush the top of a tall pine. He does so casually, like it’s just something one does, and a high-speed camera catches the treetop bend to the unfamiliarity.

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How To Make Your Website Mobile Friendly

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:04:26 -0400

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My recommendation if you are using WordPress is to go for WPTouch Pro as a start point to get mobile. For faster loading and customised look go you can use our solution – see details here or providers like MoFuse if you want to do it yourself.
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How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable? - PBS MediaShift

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:57:26 -0400

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How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable? PBS MediaShift Last month the Chicago Sun Times fired its entire staff of photographers -– 28 full-time journalists — and plans to rely primarily on freelancers.
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Tool for journalists: Repost, for embedding articles

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:48:56 -0400

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Repost creates an embed code for a whole article, allowing you to embed it in the same way as you would a YouTube or Vimeo video
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Facebook to unveil Instagram video on June 20, report says - CNET

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:46:31 -0400

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Geeky gadgets Facebook to unveil Instagram video on June 20, report says CNET Facebook to unveil Instagram video on June 20, report says.
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News is like water now — it takes the path of least resistance

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:59:10 -0400

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For anyone who has been following the evolution of the media industry over the past several years, the idea that news can find its own path to an audience now — whether it’s directly from a source via the social web or tools like Twitter, or…
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Twitter Is Testing A New Feature To Help You Find Who Your Friends Are ... - Business Insider

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:55:20 -0400

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Business Insider Twitter Is Testing A New Feature To Help You Find Who Your Friends Are …
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