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Facebook Subscriptions: Overdrive for Journalists?

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Though I understand its appeal, I’ve never found Facebook compelling. And even if it doesn’t make a Facebook aficionado out of me, it could make the network much more useful professionally to many other journalists who already use it for personal reasons. As a writer, I’m interested in having people read my work.

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Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley

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I also manage RD+B ’s Facebook page. Facebook is a different animal from Twitter so I keep that in mind when posting anything to this page. My goal with the Facebook page is a place to provide more content than 140 characters—enhancing information that was provided in a tweet.

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The Key to Understanding New Media Is Attitude, Not Technology

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As I wrote yesterday , Pinterest is not for everybody and is not trying to be the next Facebook. But you do need to be open to them, and to have some level of curiosity about what they are trying to achieve. The latest case in point is Pinterest. But if you’re serious about your new-media career, you’ll read up on it.

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The Privacy Canard: David Lazarus and the Evils of Facebook

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In the Los Angeles Times today, columnist David Lazarus, a writer I admire, wrote an oddly bitter piece inspired by the Facebook IPO, wondering why so many people under 30 just don’t care about privacy: It’s not just that we no longer feel outraged by repeated incursions on our virtual personal space.

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Are You Highly Digital? Try This Test

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You manage your CMS yourself, you are equally comfortable tweeting and posting on Facebook, you even adjust code occasionally. You generate your work on your own, with little need for assistance, using a variety of digital tools. Your work is uniquely digital in nature.

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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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But they’ll also bring to light valuable new platforms as well, like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even Google Plus. Will they sometimes wax too enthusiastic about new tools that turn out to be dead ends, like Jaiku , FriendFeed , or Google Wave ? The benefits of early adopters don’t end with identification or advocacy.

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Can Content Save Publishers? Only If They Wake Up

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Beyond the “paid media” that advertising represents, they also have the “owned media” of their own blogs, Facebook pages, and twitter accounts, and the “earned media” of online word-of-mouth. As she explains, pure content businesses like magazines are just one of three types of media options for advertisers.