Facebook

Facebook Pages Get Administrator Roles and Scheduled Posts

Facebook is continuing to beef up its offerings to Facebook Page administrators, adding features that were previously only available in third party apps, with the latest allowing them to assign administrator roles and schedule posts.

Page administrators will no doubt appreciate the ability to assign specific roles to other admins. There are five different categories now available on Facebook. In descending order of the most permissions, they are Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insight Analyst.

via Facebook Pages Get Administrator Roles and Scheduled Posts.

Reading

The Best Slides from Mary Meeker’s D10 Presentation « State of the Fourth Estate

I love charts, I love data – and Mary Meeker’s incredible D10 presentation is full of some really awesome stuff. Here are my picks for the best charts, but you owe it to yourself to go to the whole thing.

via The Best Slides from Mary Meeker’s D10 Presentation « State of the Fourth Estate.

 

Full presentation: http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/95259089?access_key=key-mv1qbwlvykk5cacr6a7

Facebook

This Is the Way Facebook Ends | Motherboard

Since Facebook’s inception, Mark Zuckerberg has had an uncanny knack for maintaining the site’s exceptional growth, despite royally pissing off the majority of its users with shady privacy practices, monetization strategies like the Beacon fiasco, and of course, its latest incarnation, Timeline. And yet, despite all the user resentment, we’re apparently using the site more than ever before. It’s this kind of fortitude in the face of user frustration that has led some to compare Zuckerberg’s forceful genius to that of Steve Jobs.

via This Is the Way Facebook Ends | Motherboard.

journalism

Business – Derek Thompson – This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite! – The Atlantic

If you work anywhere near media, you’ll want to take a long look at this graph. It tells you where Americans direct our attention (in BLUE) and where advertisers pay money to capture our attention (in RED).

— Takeaway #1: We still love TV.

— Takeaway #2: Advertisers still love print.

— Takeaway #3: Audiences move faster than advertisers.

According to this chart — adapted from a Mary Meeker slideshow excerpted by Bill Gross — we spend more time engaging with mobile devices than reading print. But print publications still get 25-times more ad money than mobile. Either the eyeballs are moving faster than the advertisers, who will eventually stop paying for print … or the ad teams don’t think a minute spent around mobile ads is worth a minute spend around print ads. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

We can take this chart in a lot of directions. Could print see another mass exodus of money? Is mobile advertising about to explode?

via Business – Derek Thompson – This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite! – The Atlantic.

Twitter

How important are all those ugly Tweet Buttons to news sites? » Nieman Journalism Lab

But do these buttons work? It’s hard to say. What we know for sure is that these magic buttons promote their own brands — and that they tend to make you look a little desperate. Not too desperate, just a little bit…

Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”? Are you sure?

via How important are all those ugly Tweet Buttons to news sites? » Nieman Journalism Lab.

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The New York Times’ R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space » Nieman Journalism Lab

Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’ vice president of R&D, puts it, the team is “investigating the ideas at the edges of today and thinking about how they’re going to impact business decisions tomorrow.” (For more on the group’s doings, check out the series of videos that we shot there a couple of years ago.)

via The New York Times’ R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space » Nieman Journalism Lab.