by Laura Donovan June 30, 2016 Follow @thewordproJune 30, 2016 Facebook announced this week that they were tweaking the News Feed algorithm again. In an add-on press release they shared a set of core values that they use when making improvements to the News Feed. “These values — which we’ve been using for years — … Continue reading Facebook’s Core Values Guide the News Feed
by Joao Romao June 30, 2016 Follow @joaoromaolxJune 30, 2016 Facebook News Feed changed. Again. The first alarms went off in Menlo Park last year: Facebook users were sharing less, Facebook’s news feed was getting cluttered. A report published by The Information even mentioned an astonishing 21% drop in shares and updates made by active … Continue reading Facebook News Feed Changes: How To Survive The Reach Crush
by Renee DeCoskey June 29, 2016 Follow @writingreneeJune 29, 2016 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Source: Flickr – License: C.C. by SA-2.0 Changes are coming to your Facebook news feed. Facebook announced on Wednesday that news feeds would begin focusing more on content from friends and family rather than brand pages. As Lars Backstrom, Engineering Director … Continue reading News Feed Values: Facebook Says Friends & Family First in New Update
by Sean Hargrave, , Staff Writer, June 16, 2016 Millennials are leading a trend to get news stories through social media — and that means that in more than one in two instances, they don’t even notice the brand the news come from. In Korea and Japan, where using social for news is more … Continue reading Mobile-First Social Millennials Are Consigning News Brands To History
by Laura Donovan June 8, 2016 Follow @thewordproJune 8, 2016 The Facebook F8 Conference is always a big event each year and this year was jam-packed with new information about the Social Media Goliath. One of the topics they presented took a look into the most valuable feature of the platform, “News Feed: Getting Your … Continue reading Reaching the News Feed: Getting Your Message Out on Facebook
by Arik Hanson June 6, 2016June 6, 2016 By now, most of us have been in the following situation. “We’re revamping our web site–this is big news! Shouldn’t we write up a news release and alert the media?” “Yeah, I mean, we now have a more ‘mobile-friendly’ site–that’s news, right?” “And we completely changed our … Continue reading When Relaunching a New Web Site Actually IS News
by Allie VanNest May 21, 2016 Follow @parselyallieMay 21, 2016 Only a few years ago, many people used RSS feed readers and personalized news aggregators to quickly find the stories they wanted to read. The promise of many of these apps and readers was that they would use data to learn what you liked and … Continue reading Personalizing News Recommendations by Building Better Reader Profiles
by Virginia Franco May 1, 2016 Follow @VAFrancoResumesMay 1, 2016 Journalists refer to the “lead” as the first few sentences that quickly tell the reader what the story is about. The phrase “never bury the lead” is one that Journalism students here from year one – as they know that doing so is a one-way … Continue reading The Biggest Resume Killer? Ignoring Lessons from News Writing
by Arik Hanson April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 In my perusing of Linked last week, I came across this post from Nancy Shenker, CEO of the ONSwitch. In the post, Nancy makes a claim we’ve all heard thousands of times: News releases are good for SEO and “Google Cred.” Except, every time I hear that, … Continue reading Do News Releases REALLY Help With SEO?
by Roee Ganot March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 Apple has already dominated the personal tech niche, providing superior products for phones, mp3 players, and personal computers, among others. Now it is entering the publishing game. Well, sort of. Apple has always had a news app on its iPhone, but it has opened up the option … Continue reading What You Need To Know About The Apple News Format
