Sree Sreenivasan * @sree * sree@sree.net
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Here’s Radian6’s PDF infographic about new year’s resolutions:
http://www.radian6.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/R6_NYResolutions.pdf
What @wordwhacker posted on Twitter today.
You know @Sree is the bee’s knees. But @roopaonline is one of his greatest assets. #justsayin
— Linda Bernstein (@wordwhacker) December 19, 2011
I am embedding this using #newtwitter, “embed this tweet” code.
Very impressive - all the links - reply, retweet, favorite, follow and the names and hashtags above - are live within the tweet. Nice!
“Prof Sree at Columbia spends at least 3-4 mins per tweet to make them Library of Congress-worthy.”—
-Just one of the many tweets from last night’s Social Media One Night Stand, hosted by Columbia Journalism School Professor Sree Sreenivasan. Sree compiled a list of all the tweets from the evening via Storify. Check it out, and learn about social media!
The dangers of mail merge.
- @sree
From Chitra Wadhwani (@cwadhwani), supervising producer of “Charlie Rose,” sent out this un-embargoed transcript and video excerpt of a joint interview with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg that will run tonight on Charlie Rose’s PBS program.
See http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html for exact listings.
The interview was conducted last Thursday at the Facebook offices in Palo Alto. It covered a wide range of topics including the company’s mission, competition with Google, China, the Arab spring, the goals of an IPO, the privacy debate, the lack of engineering talent in the U.S and more.
All references to the interview must credit “Charlie Rose.”
Guests:
Mark Zuckerberg
Sheryl Sandberg
Charlie Rose:
Tell me what the mission is today for Facebook. You’ve got 800 million and counting —
Mark Zuckerberg:
Yeah.
Charlie Rose:
— users.
Mark Zuckerberg:
Yeah.
Charlie Rose:
It’s an extraordinary reach. Someone said it’s the most expansive human enabler of communication, or an enabler of human communication there has ever been.
Mark Zuckerberg:
We’re trying.
Charlie Rose:
You’re doing well at it too. So what’s the mission? Where is this thing going?
More proof about the value of having your work retweeted by influential folks.
I sent out a tweet at 1:06 pm. At 1:17 pm, @MahSabbagh, a current @columbiajourn student and very active Saudi Twitter and blogger, retweeted my post. At 1:19, I picked up a new follower in Saudi Arabia.
I only noticed the connection because the notice of @MahSabbagh’s RT and @AiiizAlSofyani’s follow came back-to-back into my email.
![useful tips from michael (@bmunch)
futurejournalismproject:
Google Plussed
Google Plus is releasing a number of new features, one of which is Ripples (pictured above). Ripples visualize how a post is shared across the entire network, as well as within small networks (in G+ parlance, Circles). That is:
The ripple diagram shows this post spreading as users share it on Google+. Arrows indicate a user receiving the post, then resharing. Circles within circles represent a resharing sequence, so large circles indicate busy resharing.
Also released is Google Plus for organizations using Google Apps. This could be interesting for geographically dispersed editorial teams as they collaborate on documents. For example, a reporter has a story in Google Docs and she and her editor can hop into Hangouts (G+’s video conferencing) and co-create within it.
And finally, Picassa got an update. G+ uses this for image sharing and it now includes new editing filters. Google is calling this the G+ Creative Kit:
Google+ Creative Kit, [is] a fast and friendly way to make powerful edits to your photos. Now you can add that vintage feel to your vacation photos. Or sharpen those snapshots from the family barbeque. Or add some text for added personality.
For more, Mashable fills in the details.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltqm6y64901qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
useful tips from michael (@bmunch)
Google Plussed
Google Plus is releasing a number of new features, one of which is Ripples (pictured above). Ripples visualize how a post is shared across the entire network, as well as within small networks (in G+ parlance, Circles). That is:
The ripple diagram shows this post spreading as users share it on Google+. Arrows indicate a user receiving the post, then resharing. Circles within circles represent a resharing sequence, so large circles indicate busy resharing.
Also released is Google Plus for organizations using Google Apps. This could be interesting for geographically dispersed editorial teams as they collaborate on documents. For example, a reporter has a story in Google Docs and she and her editor can hop into Hangouts (G+’s video conferencing) and co-create within it.
And finally, Picassa got an update. G+ uses this for image sharing and it now includes new editing filters. Google is calling this the G+ Creative Kit:
Google+ Creative Kit, [is] a fast and friendly way to make powerful edits to your photos. Now you can add that vintage feel to your vacation photos. Or sharpen those snapshots from the family barbeque. Or add some text for added personality.
For more, Mashable fills in the details.
The incredibly generous @NickKristof!
