Archive for the ‘E-Media’ Category

The Puget Sound Business Journal and KOMO TV are now partners and will be sharing content as part of a new agreement announced today. It begins tomorrow with the morning newscast. More info on the PSBJ blog here.

Patch.com, the start-up news site launched by AOL is hiring in Seattle. They are looking for online writing and editing professionals. Here is the description of work for those interested in applying. “Are you a passionate and entrepreneurial online journalist? Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative team of journalists, engineers, designers and [...]

1. Use the @ Sign to Talk to People. To reply to someone or to send a public message to someone on Twitter, place the “@” sign in front of their Twitter name. If you want to see public messages sent to you, click on your Twitter profile homepage and click on @Replies. 2. Retweet [...]

If you are a Page Administrator for a Facebook page, make sure you are receiving ‘Weekly Facebook Page Updates.’ This will come in handy if your page ever gets deleted or disappears during a Facebook change. If you are not receiving these updates, check your settings and/or contact Facebook. Save the update in your e-mail [...]

Yesterday Slate launched a new project at Slate called “Slate Labs,” which will serve as a home base for all of Slate’s experiments with multimedia journalism. True, they have been doing a lot of them over the past few years, so they say they have collected a gallery of their favorite interactives from the Slate [...]

My father is a computer security expert and has been in the field since the early 80s where he once operated and managed the computers for the New York Stock Exchange. This morning, I received a mass e-mail from him advising his friends and family to be careful on the net. He says there are [...]

Basic Jargon – Status Update: This is how you talk to your network – Comments: People can comment on your status update or photos or links or anything you post (you can limit this in privacy settings) – Friends: These are people that you have approved or invited to be in your network – Profile: [...]

Basic Jargon: Tweets = 140-character updates on Twitter Follower = A user interested in your updates Following = All the users you are interested in following Tweetup = Real-world meeting of people who have connected via Twitter Twitterati = Celebrity and a-list Twits (or Tweeple or Tweeters) Search.Twitter.com = This is the site that allows [...]

…and Foursquare has all the information on this page.

People have recently become so fed up with Facebook’s privacy changes and constant dashboard changes that someone ended up creating a movement to quit Facebook. While the movement was bold, only about 30,000 people committed to cutting off their social media connections to Facebook. So, really, if you add it up, if those 34,000 people [...]