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Entries for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

The Secret to Increasing Traffic from Facebook without Building Applications

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Want to get some traffic out of Facebook but don’t want to spend moolah on developing an application?
You’re in luck. Facebook provides a number of tools that can help you promote your content and cash […]

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How to and why you should use the Mahalo Share Firefox add-on

Some of my media buddies have asked me why I use Mahalo Share so much. So I thought I’d put together a screencast explaining how to use it and what it does.
Mahalo Share is a Firefox add-on that allows users to share links with the Mahalo search engine and a number of other social networking […]

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Is writing for search engines a dead strategy? Update your methods to stay out of the graveyard

Quick - Don’t panic. Those search engine optimization books you invested in and the classes in your newsroom still matter.
But writing for search engines is a strategy that needs updating. It does work great now, but you have to think ahead, and structuring everything for a search engine is only part of the equation for […]

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Should journalists use social networking services for sourcing?

Whenever I want to reconnect with someone, I first look to online social networks, such as Facebook and Linked in. I imagine a host of people use social networks for the very same purpose.
So why shouldn’t journalists?
I posed this question to a list serv that includes several journalists I worked with at my college paper, […]

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