KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., is scaling back its social media-driven interactive newscast for the second time in its eight-month lifespan.
The experiment launched in its most ambitious format in September, replacing the “Oprah” show with an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast … Read more
Friday at 3:30 p.m. CT (4:30 ET), I will live-blog a South by Southwest Interactive talk about Google+. Vic Gundotra, Google’s senior vice president for engineering, will talk about some of the lessons and challenges of Google’s social network.
Here’s … Read more
“For the first time in history thanks to Hangouts, newscasters can SEE their audience and even talk with them during a soundbite in a live newscast. When you’re spending an entire hour a day or more with a viewer during a live newscast, that’s a deeper level of engagement than you get with any non face to face tweet or Facebook interaction. When I read a story about a child who’s been murdered, I hear the Hangout sigh in my ear.”
Say goodbye to SEO.
The now-conventional strategy of harnessing links and keywords to climb higher in search results has been fading for a while. Social media emerged as an alternative referral source. Google tweaked its quality signals to reduce the … Read more
| Google+ Page | Total +1s, shares & comments per post |
|---|---|
| 1. The New York Times | 247.8 |
| 2. Mashable | 144.6 |
| 3. The Next Web | 112.4 |
| 4. NPR | 78.4 |
| 5. Breaking News | 70.4 |
| 6. TIME | 68.5 |
| 7. NBC News | 62.8 |
| 8. The Atlantic | 59.9 |
| 9. The Wall Street Journal | 58.8 |
| 10. TechCrunch | 53.9 |
At first, whoever creates the page initially will also be the page administrator. No one else will be able to admin that page after them, at first. Nor can that page be transferred to someone else. Multiple administrator support is promised in the near future, but until it arrives, it seems important that if your company has a social media manager, that person should be the one to create the account.Earlier: Public streaming, recording make Google Hangouts more useful for journalists | Google+ accelerates business profiles as news orgs join early | Google+ sparks interest in new system of news discovery
"Facebook is like a guy from 'Queer Eye' who keeps loudly telling you how fabulous your life is going to be once you start taking all his advice. Google’s more like a quiet, thoughtful roommate who follows around after you, putting away your clutter exactly where you’d look for it and imperceptibly upgrading the decor and appliances. ...Maybe, all other things being equal, the hectoring 'Queer Eye' dude is always going to throw a bigger, noisier party than the quiet roommate."Related: Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”
Journalists have new ways to use the group video chat Hangouts in Google+ thanks to new features announced today. A new version called “Hangouts On Air” allows a discussion to be publicly livestreamed and recorded.
Some news organizations have used workarounds … Read more