The "S" I inserted in the MMMM title this week is for social. The various "Social Media" today are sending and receiving about as much information as the MSM (that's Mainstream Media). And that's caused the MSM to develop policies for their employees, journalists or not.
Gawker.com got hold of a memo from The Associated Press that instructs AP employees to maintain the same AP standards in their social media entries as they do in an AP story.
I'm on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog....and frankly, it's about all I can do to keep up with them and several email accounts, with or without AP style. I've had emails pop up recently with friends' names with their icon/photos saying they have "Tagged" me, and ask me to click to see the photos they have sent me. I'm suspicious enough that I've avoided the click...but not everyone has. The NY Times on Friday had
the story behind the "Tagged" emails. See if you buy the "computer glitch" explanation from the company owner any more than I did. Then there are the emails that use such common names that they could be
anybody's friend. Like "Mary wants you to join her on M5w" or whatever. Sure. Mary!
I''m getting the hang of Twitter, though I can't understand these folks who list 1,000 people they are "following", or an equal number who are "following" them. I can't keep up with a dozen friends and actual true-life family members and lifelong friends...what good is it for them to "follow" that many people?
I remember the old line of advice about blogging: nobody cares what you had for lunch. Well, I had to delete one Twitterer I was following recently because I was getting fifteen updates in a ten minute stretch: a step by step description of the twit getting onto a plane somewhere. Nobody cares about that either. I try to save my tweets for things I want to share that people will, I HOPE, find interesting. Like that great Turkey on Rye on Sunday.
[NOTE: The
Monday
Morning
Media
Memo is a regular feature on this bog.]
The "S" I inserted in the MMMM title this week is for social. The various "Social Media" today are sending and receiving about as much information as the MSM (that's Mainstream Media). And that's caused the MSM to develop policies for their employees, journalists or not. Gawker.com got hold of a memo from The Associated Press that instructs AP employees to maintain the same AP standards in their social media entries as they do in an AP story.
I'm on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog....and frankly, it's about all I can do to keep up with them and several email accounts, with or without AP style. I've had emails pop up recently with friends' names with their icon/photos saying they have "Tagged" me, and ask me to click to see the photos they have sent me. I'm suspicious enough that I've avoided the click...but not everyone has. The NY Times on Friday had the story behind the "Tagged" emails. See if you buy the "computer glitch" explanation from the company owner any more than I did. Then there are the emails that use such common names that they could be anybody's friend. Like "Mary wants you to join her on M5w" or whatever. Sure. Mary!
I''m getting the hang of Twitter, though I can't understand these folks who list 1,000 people they are "following", or an equal number who are "following" them. I can't keep up with a dozen friends and actual true-life family members and lifelong friends...what good is it for them to "follow" that many people?
I remember the old line of advice about blogging: nobody cares what you had for lunch. Well, I had to delete one Twitterer I was following recently because I was getting fifteen updates in a ten minute stretch: a step by step description of the twit getting onto a plane somewhere. Nobody cares about that either. I try to save my tweets for things I want to share that people will, I HOPE, find interesting. Like that great Turkey on Rye on Sunday.
[NOTE: The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature on this bog.]
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