Archive: Jun 2018
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What is Crowdsourcing?
“Crowdsourcing is a participatory approach for gathering ideas, content, or services by soliciting contributions from a large group of people. During the 2017 Hurricane Season, FEMA operationalized crowdsource data from digital volunteer networks to enhance situational awareness for decision making. Specifically, volunteers crowdsourced information from online… Read More
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Twitter Media Studio Getting Started Guide
Twitter has released a ‘Getting Started Guide‘ for businesses and agencies to use its Media Studio which is a platform to manage, measure and monetize your videos on Twitter. You can access the Guide at: Twitter Media Studio Getting Started Guide. … Read More
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Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad
Improving the Accessibility of Social Media for Public Service The following contains the shared document for the development of the Social Media Policy Toolkit, a shared service of the Federal Social Media Community of Practice lead by teams including The Department of Labor’s Office… Read More
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Mashable: Teens are breaking up with Facebook faster than we thought, says study
By Karissa Bell In case we needed any more proof of just how bad Facebook’s teen problem is, a new study suggests it could be even worse than we thought. Just 51 percent of teens say they use… Read More
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Ragan's PR Daily Report: Journalists are ditching the press release
By Beki Winchel The press release isn’t dead, but its traditional format is on life support. Muck Rack and Zeno Group surveyed more than 500 journalists around the world and found that roughly half of journalists around the world… Read More
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Online Training for Public Engagement During Emergencies on Facebook
PAST Fusion Cell staff along with subject-matter experts from the DOE/NNSA Emergency Management Issues Specialist Interest Group (EMI SIG) Emergency Public Information Subcommittee has developed and released an online training on how to engage with the public via Facebook during an emergency. This self-paced course… Read More
