Facebook Sharing Down…with Good Reason
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As Dillon Baker noted in Contently last year, Facebook has altered radically in its short history. “Twelve years ago, Facebook started out as a place for people to post about themselves,” Baker wrote at the time. “But lately, the platform...
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What’s Killing Publisher Reach on Facebook?
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Kurt Gessler has a Facebook problem. The deputy editor for digital news at The Chicago Tribune has seen a stark drop in the publisher’s reach on the platform in recent months. “Starting in January of this year, we at the...
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Dear Social … Are You Okay?
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From Twitter bots to YouTube boycotts to FB confusion, it’s getting pretty weird out there in social land. Um, social, are you okay? Pardon us for saying so, but you seem lost and confused. It seems like brands had just...
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The Ugly Truth About Internet Behavior
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It’s getting ugly out there on the Internet. And it looks like it’s only going to get worse. “A new report by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center suggests that technologists widely agree: The bad...
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National Law Journal Debuts Monthly Print Magazine
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The National Law Journal (NLJ) has long been a staple of information for law professionals and legal teams. And now, they are launching a glossy print monthly, to replace the former weekly tabloid. “As part of ALM’s response to the...
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HBR, What’s the Big Idea?
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Is the continuing wave of digital advancement poised to cause more disruption for publishers? Not from where Josh Macht sits. The executive VP of the Harvard Business Review recently spoke to John Watkins about the unique opportunities facing print publishers...
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The Facebook/Google Duopoly and the 99% Share
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Are publishers thinking clearly about the value of their presence on social media? It would seem not, according to Tony Silber, writing in Folio. Silber relates a recent conversation he had with a community media publisher who views social media...
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Maybe Readers Have Too Much Trust?
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Well, this is interesting. With politicians and journalists locked in bitter tweet-to-tweet combat, fake news has become entirely too real. Yet results from a new survey show a disturbing trend. “When asked how they keep up with current events, an...
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Will You Watch? Facebook Set to Test Mid-roll Video Ads
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They’ve got the world publishing videos at a mighty pace; now a plan is launched to monetize it. We’re all familiar with the YouTube video experience. You hit play, and then count down until you can click away from the...
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Socially Awkward: Publishing in the Age of Facebook and Twitter
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Third time’s the…charm? Facebook is once again admitting to metric errors, this time in mobile search and live video user reactions. “A discrepancy was identified for counting the use of like and share buttons, as well as the counts when...
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