Find new Tweeps to follow
Twitter — just like most social networks — becomes more useful as you connect with more users. But finding those users can be tough for a newbie. Other social networks have created tools that automatically generate lists of users to connect with based on a user’s habits, but Twitter has yet to generate a similar [...]
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Why does search engine optimization matter?
No doubt communications professionals, whether in journalism, advertising or public relations, are used to working with a wide range of specialists – photographers, copy editors, designers, sales representatives, etc. But there’s a new position in many organizations that has grown out of a need to put professionally-produced content in front of new readers: the SEO. [...]
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See how a story evolved on Twitter
Twitter has a built-in search function, which performs well at finding Twitter posts in real time. But to dig into Twitter’s archive to see how a story or event evolved over time on the service, the built-in search feature sometimes falls short. Google now has a tool that allows you to search Twitter and visualize [...]
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What are the skills of the online journalist?
The Web presents many challenges for news organizations – new consumption patterns, multi-platform distribution and a whole new business model. But it also presents new challenges for individual journalists because producing news online requires many new skills that had previously been absent from legacy media. There is still an emphasis on traditional reporting skills. In [...]
Online Photoshop alternative
Photoshop has become the industry standard for image editing. But for those without access to the desktop version who need to carry out basic image-editing tasks, Adobe has a free online alternative. Just point your browser to Photoshop.com, where you can upload images to edit and then save them to your desktop computer. The functionality isn’t [...]
Create simple polls
Polls can be an easy way to create some simple user interaction, but there are many providers out there for the simple polls you see on many websites. One of the more prominent services is PollDaddy, a product of WordPress-creator Automattic. PollDaddy has both free and paid accounts. Paid accounts are necessary for anyone who [...]