Social Media

Using Twitter to get out the word

November 13, 2009
By Steve Safran
Using Twitter to get out the word

(This piece originally appeared in the AR&D Media 2.0 INTEL Newsletter, a publication of my employer. I include it here because its theme – using multiple Twitter streams – is important to understand as part of our overall mission.) TheĀ Austin American-Statesman has started as a dedicated feed just for stories about the Fort Hood tragedy,...
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We shared, you came: the power of social media

November 2, 2009
By Steve Safran

BostonMediaNext.com has been online for all of four days. As expected, our traffic started slowly, with 20 – 50 page views per day. But on Sunday, it spiked to 350 views. How is this possible for a nascent site? Social media. On Saturday, I wrote an entry about Prof. Jay Rosen’s NYU course that...
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