Comments on: News orgs make mad dash for Facebook love http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/ Newspaper design, visual journalism, and documentary video Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Andrea Zagata http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13265 Andrea Zagata Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:47:28 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2007/newspaper/design/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13265 The State News (at MSU) has a facebook application. Granted it's not all that great right now, but you can go to the application and click on stories which link to their website. It's not much now, but it's there and has potential. They don't really have a coporate page, but I could definitely see one coming in the future. I think maybe college publications were more likely to catch on to this sooner. The State News (at MSU) has a facebook application. Granted it’s not all that great right now, but you can go to the application and click on stories which link to their website. It’s not much now, but it’s there and has potential. They don’t really have a coporate page, but I could definitely see one coming in the future. I think maybe college publications were more likely to catch on to this sooner.

]]> By: Robb Montgomery http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13230 Robb Montgomery Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:39:52 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2007/newspaper/design/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13230 It is also designed to be the place where you will make money. Maybe not for newspapers, but for entertainment media certainly according to this article: http://digitalblab.com/?p=42 For comparison to the newspapers mentioned here, the New York Times page has a most-emailed Facebook app, a slide show and video roll on its page. And, so far it has attracted 2,290 "fans." http://www.facebook.com/nytimes?ref=nf It is also designed to be the place where you will make money. Maybe not for newspapers, but for entertainment media certainly according to this article: http://digitalblab.com/?p=42

For comparison to the newspapers mentioned here, the New York Times page has a most-emailed Facebook app, a slide show and video roll on its page. And, so far it has attracted 2,290 “fans.”

http://www.facebook.com/nytimes?ref=nf

]]> By: William Couch http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2007/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13180 William Couch Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:59:39 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2007/newspaper/design/11/news-orgs-make-mad-dash-for-facebook-love/#comment-13180 Haha, excellent. I think putting them as Pages allows for better interaction than groups. Groups on Facebook, as a whole, are relatively inactive with respect to receiving updates about them on a daily basis (although, this is supposedly going to change...). With Pages however, activity updates are proliferated and there's more prominence in your support of them on profile pages (interesting to note, though, that this box is a Facebook application that can be hidden or removed, should one choose to do so). Haha, excellent. I think putting them as Pages allows for better interaction than groups. Groups on Facebook, as a whole, are relatively inactive with respect to receiving updates about them on a daily basis (although, this is supposedly going to change…). With Pages however, activity updates are proliferated and there’s more prominence in your support of them on profile pages (interesting to note, though, that this box is a Facebook application that can be hidden or removed, should one choose to do so).

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