sreetips:

==> SHORTCUT TO THIS PAGE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc <==

I am constantly updating, editing, adding to this list. Your feedback, suggestions and tips welcome, sree[at]sree.net or via @sree - mention this page.

FIVE LATEST ADDITIONS BELOW: 

• Added infographic resume links to job hunting/career management section
• NEW SECTION: Google+ guides and articles
• [CASE STUDY] Social media sharing increases website traffic +30%. Here’s why
• Twitter For Newsrooms - the official guide: http://bit.ly/twitterfn
• NEW SECTION: Social media and job hunting/career management - scroll down

BELOW: Handouts, tip sheets & reading material | My technology columns | Change your media diet | Social media and job hunting | LinkedIn guides | Facebook guides | Foursquare guides | Twitter guides and articles

==> Be sure to checkout my workshops - in-person and via webcast, including archived recordings: http://bit.ly/sreeworkshops

including: 

• NYC: Social Media One-Night Stand - ADVANCED social media workshop Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011… Details & registration
• NEW JERSEY: Wed, Dec 7: Social Media Workshop in Parsipanny, NJ: http://bit.ly/sreenj11
• PHOENIX: Thurs, Dec 8. Details coming to http://bit.ly/sreeworkshops

Testimonials from two Pulitzer Prize winners, @NickKristof of NYT & @MorinToon of MiamiHerald - follow ‘em!

==> I promise that my sessions, like my tweets, will most likely be: helpful * useful * informative * relevant * practical * actionable * timely * generous * credible * brief * entertaining * fun * occasionally funny

==>What social media can do for media pros and others:

• find new ideas, trends and sources
• connect with readers and viewers in new ways
• bring eyeballs, traffic and attention to their work 
• help them create, craft and enhance their brands

If you’d like to be on my monthly e-mail with new tips, workshop listings, etc: sree[at]sree.net

Sree Sreenivasan
Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs
Contributing editor, DNAinfo.com: http://dnainfo.com
Twitter: @sree | http://twitter.com/sree
Facebook: http://facebook.com/sreetips
Site: Sree.net | SreeTips.com
Email: sree[at]sree.net | Google Voice: 678-379-SREE

==> Hope you will connect with me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sree and on my new Facebook page at http://facebook.com/SreeTips (I post only tech tips and job leads there) and on LinkedIn page at http://linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan (I accept invitations from people I know; people I should know; people I’d like to know). 

HANDOUTS, TIP SHEETS & READING MATERIAL:

• Syllabus and notes for my five-week Social-Media Skills for Journalists course at Columbia: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills (created with @AAdamGlenn and now also taught by @Lavrusik, @NYT_JenPreston @ZSeward and @TCPuente)
• My Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics: http://bit.ly/twitterideas
• My Poynter column on the rise of social-media editors at news orgs around the country: http://bit.ly/sssocmed |
• My Mashable essay, video and slides (co-written with then-student Vadim Lavrusik, @lavrusik, on traits of the future journalist: http://bit.ly/sreefuture
• BBC tells news staff to embrace social media - or leave: http://bit.ly/9qyl5h
• Mashable on how journalists are using social media today: http://bit.ly/bAId0q
• 15 reasons Twitter matters to news organizations, by @ARusbridger, editor-in-chief of @Guardian
• @SteveButtry on why entrepreneurial journalists need to master social media
• Useful stats about social media, from LukeW
• 25 amazing social-media infographics, collected by WebDoctus
• @webjournalist & @facebookmedia’s presentation on intermediate social media 
• @lavrusik on how investigative journalism is prospering in the age of social media: http://on.mash.to/hvB0ZL
• How to promote your offline events using social media: http://bit.ly/bxWCsQ
• NYT’s Carol Vogel on museums pursue social-media engagement
• Emarketer on older Facebook users catching up on LIKES
• @Econsultancy’s collection of 16 social media guidelines of real orgs
• CMO.com’s useful infographic explaining how marketing officers should look at various social media channels’ impact on customer communication; brand exposure; traffic; SEO
• [CASE STUDY] BarnRaiser’s list of 34 case studies that prove the ROI of social media
• [CASE STUDY] How Discovery reached 25m Likes on FB & 1.5m Twitter followers without gimmicks: http://bit.ly/eGcePn
• [CASE STUDY] @Armano’s Four stages of social business, Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly
• [CASE STUDY] Social media sharing increases website traffic +30%. Here’s why
  NONPROFITS: @Mad_azn’s 5 social media mythbusters, nonprofit edition
• @BLOchman’s 7 reasons why social media won’t work for your company
• @ReadWriteWeb column: Why most Facebook marketing doesn’t work
• DISCONNECTING: How to disconnect, a primer | The value of jumping off the social media train

MY COLUMNS ON THE CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE:
These essays, about the intersection of media and technology, are some of my weekly columns  for DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan hyperlocal site I helped create with Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts (whose family just bought the Cubs and Wrigley Field) - be sure to check out the site on the Web, Facebook and Twitter: 

Five Things I’ve Learned from Japan Quake | Egypt, Libya, etc * Six ways journalists (and others) can use Twitter better * Twitter Myths & Misconceptions * The Geolocation Wars * What a Non-journo Can Teach Journos About Social Media * Twitter Comes of Age. Again * Much Ado About Tweeting * Facebook’s Coming Privacy Changes *  Please Stop Oversharing *  Identity in the Age of Facebook * Why Profile Photos Matter * Lessons from a Week without Newspapers * Thoughts About Personal Branding * Thoughts About the iPad * Thoughts about Google TV * Thoughts on Six Months of DNAinfo.com | COLUMN EDITOR, @MPVdna

CHANGE YOUR MEDIA DIET (sites you should be reading):

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Divice 4.0?

engineering:

Welcome to the Tumblr API, v2!

Want to know what’s changed and why? Read on. Just want to dive in? Head on over to the API documentation, sign up for a key, and get hacking!

New Features

Features on Tumblr evolve rapidly. With the API, we have not attempted to provide complete feature…

API Usage.

shortformblog:

Why you might get tons of Tumblr likespam (and what to do about it)

A suggestion for Tumblr: Try to figure out a way so spammers can’t use this black-hat SEO (search engine optimization) technique. It’s dead simple to take advantage of, and as a result, some sites (such as our own) often drown in it. Today, for example, we got a ton of fake traffic from bots doing an obscure search on Google (see screenshots). Here’s a quick explanation as to what’s happening, as far as we can see:

• first Black hat SEO types hit Google and type in this specific phrase — “site:tumblr.com ‘liked this’” — a common phrase on Tumblr due to the way it handles likes. 
• then Then, sketchy bot types will create hundreds or thousands of fake Tumblr accounts whose URLs forward to a sketchy-looking site not on Tumblr.
• result These sites end up getting hundreds or thousands of backlinks to their sketchy sites on Google — and all they had to do was like tons of people.

» But we have a temporary solution: Are you, like us, getting a lot of spam on your Tumblr? This is a likely reason. We’d like to offer a suggestion to solve the problem. If you know how to edit your theme in HTML, do a search for the phrase “{PostNotes}” and replace it with this: ”<!—googleoff: all—>{PostNotes}<!—googleon: all—>”. This prevents the notes from getting crawled by Google, which is good because it focuses your content, but bad, because any relevant content in reblogs won’t account for what shows up in search engines. This is really a problem Tumblr needs to look at — if they take out common phrases or make them invisible to search engines, everyone wins. But we hope this at least helps your sanity. It’ll help ours.

that’s an issue.

msnerd:

This is a little something about Microsoft’s 2012 through 2014 platform plan. As always Microsoft and I are equally unreliable.

—-

CES 2012
Win8 + WinStore beta
<ONM> CTP
Tango1 launch

MWC 2012
Tango2 SDK

MIX 2012
Win8 RC
<ONM> beta
Tango2 launch + Apollo announce
Kinect commercial SDK

E3 2012

you can get my words: MS-Apple.

youranonnews:

As some of you know we got banned from Google+ due to some of our content. What we didn’t know at the time is that we were just one of a handfull of Anonymous accounts that was silenced. This is the sad fact of what happens across the internet when you walk to a different beat of the drum….

got to know the new Panda rules….

staff:

It’s now super easy to add a “Share on Tumblr” button to any site.

Adding the basic Tumblr Button couldn’t be simpler. Just cut and paste the code and you’ll be off running. But the advanced options are where it gets interesting…

The Tumblr Button can give you complete control over how your content appears when shared on Tumblr. Not only does this mean specifying an excerpt or summary, but also deciding whether it appears as a Link, Quote, Photo, or Video Embed.

Even better: This can be deeply integrated with just about any publishing platform to add contextual buttons next to things like paragraphs or photos. Check out these examples.

The appearance of the button is also completely customizable.

Click here to get started!

another social button. i like it

staff:

Now testing: Pages

You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create:

• Standard Layout. Create a simple page with a title and body using your current theme.
• Custom Layout. Create a page with a completely separate layout.
• Redirect. Forward a route to a page on another domain. Useful for maintaining links when moving your domain name over to Tumblr.

Developers: Check out the Theme Docs for instructions on implementing the new {block:Pages} tag.

how to use layout

hipsterpuppies:

check out these amazing photos from the HIPSTER PUPPIES PAGEANT courtesy of jacob from time out new york.

thanks to lena @ powerhouse, oscar the winning pooch, and all the pups and pup-owners who made this night more special than we could have ever imagined.

see his (?) big eyes,hahahh, “hei, look at me! …”

dvdp:

Murmuration (collection of starlings)
filmed by Liberty Smith & Sophie Windsor Clive
//I would love to join that boat

cool, huh:0

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