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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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The webinar, “ Enhancing Your Career in the B2B Press ,” is sponsored by the American Society of Business Press Editors.). Even if the Wall Street Journal reports a scoop behind its paywall, once that information comes out—quoted, linked, blogged, aggregated, remixed, and e-mailed all over—it’s no longer exclusive and rare.”.

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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Moreover, she sees some benefit in using software to replace those deadwood journalists who “don’t add any value” through their work: “Writers, for example, who simply gather information, get a few comments from people and then regurgitate it onto the page, should probably start looking for another profession. As James W.

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

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Though it’s true that the trade press in general is decidedly behind the curve in this respect, there are notable exceptions. My goal with the Facebook page is a place to provide more content than 140 characters—enhancing information that was provided in a tweet. Maureen Alley: Never tweet what you wouldn't say in person.

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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Anderson worries that giving up on beats means abandoning the “monitorial” role of the press. It commits publishers to a relatively fixed way of presenting information on a rigid production-driven schedule to an arbitrarily defined audience that may or may not want that information. I’ve drawn, so far, three conclusions.

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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Anderson worries that giving up on beats means abandoning the “monitorial” role of the press. It commits publishers to a relatively fixed way of presenting information on a rigid production-driven schedule to an arbitrarily defined audience that may or may not want that information. I’ve drawn, so far, three conclusions.

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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Stepping into the breach, the American Society of Business Press Editors has worked to ease the transition to a social-media world by, among other efforts, sponsoring a number of Webinars for B2B editors on this and related topics. Of course, to nurture your brand, you have to market it. And you do that through the social web.

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Attribution and Linking Are Essential to Transparency

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Though by all means you should read his entire post, I want to cover a few of his points that particularly apply in the trade press. The first is the thorny issue of press releases. As Buttry says, the idea of a press release is that you can freely crib from it—the company that sent it to you will be perfectly happy if you do.