New media journalists around the globe face technological barriers and increasing dangers when reporting from within the boundaries of protective governments. A new site by Global Voices Advocacy maps and tracks journalists who have been threatened or...
Topics: Blogs, Journalism that Matters, Media, Monitoring, Technology

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If you’ve used Twitter for awhile, you know that judging the influence of a Twitter user by their number of followers is a dicey proposition.  Lots of Twitter users are obsessed with their number of followers, and work to inflate their stats in...
Topics: Bivings, Twitter

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ImpactWatch Social Media Monitoring and Measurement – an Interview with Hannah Del PortoInternet marketer Murray Newlands recently picked the brain of our very own Hannah Del Porto, who is one of the experts on our ImpactWatch media monitoring...
Topics: Asides, Bivings

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As you probably know by now, CNN launched a redesigned website yesterday.   While I like the look and feel, the thing that really strikes me about the new homepage is how little of it is devoted to news.  As you’ll see in the screen..
Topics: Design, Media, Website review

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It has been a tough year for a lot of people.  Non-profits have been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn, as folks who are normally very generous simply don’t have the resources to help out financially.In an effort to help out in a...
Topics: Bivings

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