Tag Archives: social media

Working with social media

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been talking lately with folks about social media.  Here are a few thoughts on the subject: What are social media? Online sites that allow users to generate content, comment, tag, and network with friends or other like-minded people. What … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 10 – Neda Agha-Soltan as a Symbol of Iranian Protesters

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

NOTE: This is a re-post of the 2009 blog entry. All of the videos linked to here contain disturbing, violent imagery.The news out of Iran about the violent suppression of people protesting the results of the recent Iranian election has been … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 12 – Domino’s and Pizza Hut deal with social media crisis

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

In April of 2009, Domino’s Pizza faced a restaurant company’s worst nightmare when two employees posted a video showing one of them putting cheese up his nose and then placing it on a sandwich, blowing his nose on a sandwich, … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 10 – Who has the rights to your social media?

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

The point of having social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and the like to be able to share aspects of your life with your friends and the rest of the world. Which is fine when you are going out … Continue reading →

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Link Ch.6 – How VTech’s Collegiate Times covered the 2011 shooting on campus

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

The student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country during December 8, 2011’s shooting deaths of two people on the VTech campus.  Here are two blog posts I wrote as their reporting was unfolding: … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Lin – Can race-based humor not be racist?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

A blog by sudden NBA star Jeremy Lin as a 15-year-old has grabbed online attention today.  There’s several things interesting about it. According to sports blog Deadspin, Lin’s teenage blog was under the address: chiNkBaLLa88.xanga.com.  (You can follow the link, but … Continue reading →

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A New Year in the Media World

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

A few thoughts from across the Interwebs on the new year: Will election year politics cause you to unfriend old friends from Facebook? I don’t know about unfriending, but I’ve been known to hide posts…. HT Romenesko. No flying cars … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Reporters Praised for Coverage of Shootings

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

There can be no doubt that student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country of Thursday’s shooting deaths of the VT campus.  As I wrote on this blog yesterday, the paper’s staff did an … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened.  People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading →

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Tweeting, Tweaking & TNT

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Three bits of media news that are worth posting but don’t really go together. Associated Press to reporters: Don’t break news on Twitter; break it on the wire The Associated Press has reiterated it’s policy of never having reporters break … Continue reading →

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