Hot Headlines This Week
With thousands of headlines and tips being shared on Twitter alone each hour, we think it’s helpful to share our favorites – the articles and blog posts that really stood out this week as being most relevant, interesting and insightful. Browse the list and then tell us about your favorite article this week.
Darcie Meihoff: I liked this Ad Age blog post, The Demographics of Social Media, because I’m a stats junkie. As anyone who follows me on Twitter can tell you.
Sarah Biedak: For your Friday reading pleasure: 40 Tried And Tested Twitter Tips For Newbies, Apprentices And Pros. There are a lot of solid reminders and new tactics to consider.
Erik Sebellin-Ross: MediaBistro takes a look at the results from Twitter’s Promoted Offerings. Looks like they’re still in the early days…
Melissa Lion: The Internet has been accused of killing many things – print, attention spans and grammar seem to be its most mourned victims. Byliner.com is positioned to stop all of this murder and mayhem. I hope. Byliner features long-form journalism in individual doses for a small fee and, according to Byliner, they’re easily read in a single sitting. Head over to Byliner.com to check out Jon Krakauer’s exposé on Greg Mortenson or William Vollman’s non-fiction essay on post-earthquake Japan.
Gary Rubin: RIP, Blippy. This social network site that shared credit card purchasing information never made any sense to me, so this comes as no surprise. But apparently it was attractive enough to some VCs to raise more than $12 million and earn an unbelievable valuation north of $46 million at one point. Easy come, easy go.
Julie Yamamoto: Will your Klout score get you better customer service? Possible.
Stefanie Week: Where are all the dad bloggers? Mommy bloggers seem to be a dime a dozen these days but the dad blogs haven’t seen the same appeal. Although from what I can tell, they may be a pretty small community but they certainly have an engaged audience.
Ben Z Samples: Is your newsroom catering to the new pedigree of digital journalists? A new study shows that it’s probably not.