February 28, 2013
Posted by Jen Reeves
I spent the last week visiting the AARP headquarters where I work. I’m a teleworker based in Columbia, Missouri tasked with helping train the entire organization about social media. Those tasks range from understanding the ethics and etiquette behind the use of social media to ways to use it effectively on a personal and professional [...]
September 15, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
This post was originally written for Dubtizzle on 8.28.12: Facebook Pages are a great way to extend your public relationship for yourself or your brand. Facebook Subscribe lets you share your personal posts in a public way. As your news feed fills with branding and professional talk (kind of like when Twitter feeds automatically appeared [...]
June 6, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
There was a time in history not long ago when Twitter was new. Nowadays it so not new that it doesn’t even need a “T’ as a logo. Twitter updated its logo and made it just a bird. Heck, Twitter even made a pretty video about it: I used to blog about Twitter all of [...]
February 20, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
A friend of mine in the social journalism world mentioned in a blog post how he isn’t an engager… because it isn’t possible. He’s a broadcaster inside social media. And that made me think. Social media has grown because it’s all about sharing and talking and learning. Why can’t media brands be a part of [...]
February 7, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
As I teach and lead a newsroom at the same time, it’s incredible to think of the number of ways newsrooms can deliver information. When a reporter goes out to a story, we expect him or her to deliver information from a cellphone via Twitter with text, photos and video. We expect a written news [...]
September 5, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I haven’t been able to post on any of my blogs as much as I’d like because my newsroom is on the race towards launching a one of a kind newscast a week from today. Our goal is to bring a static newscast into a more interactive experience with the help of social media. We’re [...]
August 2, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I know Twitter will not be used by every person in the world. I’ve never expected that to happen. But for a very long time (search Twitter on this page, and you’ll see years of me bringing it up) I’ve felt the need to explain why journalists should use it. I’m still talking about it… [...]
March 10, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m attending my third South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas for the next week. I’m lucky to have a job that helps pitch in on an expensive but incredibly engaging experience with tens of thousands of people who tend to think and interact in social media like I do. So many people think [...]
February 25, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
Check in services first came to my attention when I attended the SXSW Interactive festival in 2009. Foursquare announced a cellphone-based tool that let you “check-in” to your location and let people know where you visited. The more you visited, the more credibility you would gain inside the game. If you check in enough to [...]
October 12, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
In 1987, I watched a live broadcast of a little baby rescued from a well in Texas. I cried and celebrated the return of this little girl to her family. I was engaged in watching the wall-to-wall coverage on CNN. It was a new cable channel that focused on the news 24 hours a day. [...]
