How news companies can leverage Facebook’s masses

By Steve Outing on Oct 1, 2007 in Social networking

OK, I’m less controversial this month in my Editor & Publisher Online column. This latest column looks at Facebook and examines how news organizations can use its API to create social applications and thus leverage the massive Facebook audience. (There are other ways to work with the Facebook phenomenon, including using it for crowd sourcing, but I don’t get into that. Check out this excellent article from Poynter.org for that angle of Facebook.)

While I focus on Facebook, the thinking that drives developing a strategy for it for a news organization also can apply to other social networks. Eventually MySpace (you’d think) will open up to external applications. And who knows what other social networks might get big and thus become worthy of leveraging. What we’re really talking about here is for news companies to develop an effective “widget” strategy.

2 Comment(s)

  1. On Nov 20, 2007, Georgia Popplewell/C said:

    I definitely think the remoteness, combined with the fact that your talk had to pass through a simultaneous translator was responsible for the lack of response from the audience. And we shouldn\'t ignore either that our panel took place just after most people had eaten lunch!

  2. On Nov 21, 2007, Kara-Hannah said:

    Come share your experiences on blogtv.com as well! We are always looking for more iteresting folks like yourself!

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