In WREG reporter Melissa Moon’s experience, news coverage and Twitter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Functioning on several levels, the social platform can spark interest to get people to tune into the broadcast, but it can also disseminate crucial up-to-the-minute information or fun human-interest stories. She even says that Twitter has been where [...] [...more]
Are social media news feeds killing mainstream journalism? Not according to Melissa Moon at WREG Channel 3. In her experience, social media is a great tool not only for sending out teasers for the stories she's covering, but also for getting tip-offs. She encourages anyone with a news story to tweet to @melissamoon3. On or off the clock, she also uses Twitter to be a reporter 24/7 by sharing stories and interesting articles she finds, not just from WREG, but also from a variety of sources. [...more]
This isn’t the Facebook podcast, but sometimes it kind of turns out that way. At the top of the news today is Facebook’s announcement on May 18th that they will be introducing “bands of privacy.” As far as we can tell, these bands will let users select a broader privacy setting instead of customizing who can see [...] [...more]
Amanda Mauck – Facebook 101 Think you know Facebook? Well, maybe you did a day or two ago, but chances are, they’ve changed something since then. It seems like the internet’s most popular social network site rolls out a new update almost daily, and for the last few months, each and everyone has a parade of privacy complaints right behind it. [...more]
A few weekends ago, Memphis endured torrential downpours of rain and tornado sirens, and the Nashville area was named a national disaster area after massive flooding. Not as much attention was given, however, to the devastation in and around Millington. Hundreds of people in the area were affected, and many lost their homes and cars. [...] [...more]
The Expeditionaries spent their Cinco de Mayo morning talking social at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Social Expedition. Dave Barger of LunaWeb spoke with the group about new Facebook features and online privacy. (Fun fact: it was Dave’s 62nd presentation in the last two and a half years on social topics, to more than [...] [...more]
LaunchMemphis and LunaWeb recently co-hosted TribeCamp, a day-long conference on social media, web topics and professional development. The Social Expedition was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the event. We’ll be posting notes from some TribeCamp sessions over the next couple of weeks. The posts will be on a variety of topics, from social [...] [...more]
May is just around the corner, and we’ll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with our Social Expedition breakfast. LunaWeb‘s Dave Barger will be speaking this time around, and if you’ve wondered about any of the changes or features Facebook has rolled out in the past few months, you won’t want to miss it. He’ll be [...] [...more]
We’re in a Facebook frenzy this week, so brace yourself. First, Dave tells us about his friend Mari (@MariSmith) who recently discovered that her Facebook privacy settings were causing her some problems. She sent out a tweet about the situation, which involved some trolls she’d blocked from her personal profile making comments on a Fan [...] [...more]
SxSW Interactive may have ended a few weeks ago, but Dave came back with enough new information, ideas and interview clips to fill up podcasts from now until 2011. We (probably) won’t subject you to all of it, but this week we’re featuring what seemed to be one of the hottest topics in Austin: privacy. [...] [...more]
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