On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog took a look at how content goes viral and what to do with negative feedback.
What Makes Pinterest So Popular and Other Tips for Going Viral [Podcast]
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Jonah Peretti on Launching Huffington Post and BuzzFeed [Video]
Before founding BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti helped launch the Huffington Post. In part three of our “Media Beat” interview, the founder shares his experiences using social media to boost traffic.
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Explains How to Predict When Videos Go Viral [Video]
The social media mavens at BuzzFeed are always on the lookout for the stories that draw a gut reaction from the social web. In part two of our “Media Beat” interview with Jonah Peretti, the BuzzFeed co-founder explains how to predict when a video will go viral. You’re going to want to take notes.
College Humor Co-Founder On Condom Ads, BustedTees and Google Copyrights
In part 3 of our Media Beat interview with College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen, we discuss how to monetize web video. It used to be “don’t mess with the video”, but these days there can be good ads that complement the video. Ricky discusses further.
College Humor Co-Founder: Celebrity Retweeting Doesn’t Guarantee Traffic As Well As Facebook Sharing
Is Twitter really a private lock box for your deepest secrets? Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of College Humor, explains how he and his team of video comics come up with crazy ideas like that in this new episode of Media Beat.
Part 3: Tumblr Serves “5.3 Billion Views Per Month,” Explains Mark Coatney [Video]
In the third and final part of our Media Beat series of interviews with Mark Coatney, the media evangelist for Tumblr, Mark discusses the new opportunities popping up due to social media. Tumblr itself has always been particularly interested in journalism, and Mark discusses how that came about, and how it will progress.
Part 2: Tumblr’s Mark Coatney Explains How He Left Newsweek To Join Tumblr [Video]
In Part 2 of our Media Beat interview with Mark Coatney, we discuss the new role of social media tools like Tumblr in journalism, as well as why Mark made the jump from Newsweek to Tumblr.
Mark also discusses how Tumblr can affect journalism today, and how traditional journalists can jump ahead in the new wave of social media by better understanding new tools and services.
Tumblr’s Mark Coatney: Do Most Websites Treat Commenters As Second Class Citizens? [Video]
Mark Coatney, Media Evangelist for Tumblr, recently made the trip down to our mediabistro office in Manhattan to let us in on a few secrets about Tumblr’s growth and progress over the last year. Mark is a former Newsweek Senior Editor who got involved in Tumblr early, and realized it had massive potential to help the industry journalism. He made the leap over to Tumblr to act as their Media Evangelist last year and has been working hard to help the journalism industry wrap their heads around social.
WATCH: StumbleUpon CEO Discusses 850 Million Monthly Stumbles and the Future of Social Networks
Garett Camp, the CEO of StumbleUpon recently sat down with us here in New York to discuss the success of his content sharing network and to give us some insight into the future of social networking. Specifically, he feels that social will become ubiquitous, and content will leverage existing social networks like Facebook or StumbleUpon.
