Category Archives: Social Media

Dompost.co.nz to run live chat with Wellington mayor

By Julie Starr | Published: August 18, 2011
I notice that dompost.co.nz, the Dominion Post website, is running a live chat with Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown tomorrow (Friday August 19) at 12pm.   Good for them, I say. This is exactly the kind of thing news websites can and should do for their readers – bring the Town Hall to people who can’t [...]
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In Indonesia & the Philippines it’s more about sharing content, in UK & Canada it’s more about sending messages

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011
Via Mashable, a graphic showing how people use social networks in various parts of the globe: In some countries, many of them Asian, most people were focused on content sharing. Others, like the UK and Canada, had more people who put a greater emphasis on sending messages. New Zealand appears to have fallen of the [...]
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Search & social wrap: Google wallet, Twitter user data, Bing, Baidu and RenRen

By Julie Starr | Published: May 27, 2011
Some more catch-up reading, this time about search, social and floats. Google: Coming soon – make your phone your wallet Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You’ll be able to [...]
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Guest post: social media in New Zealand journalism

By Julie Starr | Published: April 23, 2011
I’m heading away on holiday for a week so I’m leaving you with this guest post from recently graduated Whitireia journalism student Owen Winter, who has talked to some New Zealand journalists about the use of social media in reporting: the pitfalls, benefits, attitudes and what comes next. Owen is looking for a journalism job [...]
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How do you get people to tell stories?

By Julie Starr | Published: February 22, 2011
I liked this thread in Frank Chimero‘s talk at #Webstock last week. He talked about the power of storytelling (and we’re all about that at allaboutthestory.com:) and particularly about how to get people to tell stories about themselves. Forgive the blur, I grabbed these pics in a hurry. We come across forms on websites all [...]
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