Tag Archives: social media

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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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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Loving the look of Storify

By Julie Starr | Published: October 19, 2010
I’ve just requested an invite to Storify, an app that lets you tell stories using material gathered on social media. I’d heard about it briefly a couple of times then came across a post from Ryan Sholin talking about his experiments with it and followed a link to Megan Garber’s story about it on Nieman [...]
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300 blogposts in 30 seconds… and counting

By Julie Starr | Published: October 21, 2009
This is nice way to lose a few minutes. It’s an embeddable widget that calculates current social media usage – the brainchild of a former BBC staffer Gary Hayes, who is now “director of LAMP in Sydney, Australia, CCO of MUVEDesign (a virtual world & game development company) and Consultant in Social & Transmedia to [...]
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Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service

By Julie Starr | Published: August 2, 2009
Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service A Wired article about Bit.ly’s plans for growth includes a couple of lines about the url shortening service looking at generating a news service based on tweets. ‘When the world’s 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they’re routed through bit.ly’s [...]
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