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UGC Workflow Basics: Setting Up Your Social Newsgathering Processes
Invest in workflow In 2016, young adults listed social media as their main source of news. Even beyond the young, 62% of adults now report they get their news from social media. Now, in 2017, we’ve reached a point where overall trust in mass media is at a historic low. Social media is seeth...
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Invest in workflow In 2016, young adults listed social media as their main source of news. Even beyond the young, 62% of adults now report they get their news from social media. Now, in 2017, we’ve reached a point where overall trust in mass media is at a historic low. Social media is seeth...
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UGC Workflow Basics: Setting Up Your Social Newsgathering Processes
Invest in workflow In 2016, young adults listed social media as their main source of news. Even beyond the young, 62% of adults now report they get their news from social media. Now, in 2017, we’ve reached a point where overall trust in mass media is at a historic low. Social media is seeth...
Published at SAM Blog
Invest in workflow In 2016, young adults listed social media as their main source of news. Even beyond the young, 62% of adults now report they get their news from social media. Now, in 2017, we’ve reached a point where overall trust in mass media is at a historic low. Social media is seeth...
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6 Ways to Curate Social UGC in SAM
Everyone’s workflow is a bit different, especially when it comes to curating social UGC. Within SAM, there are 6 different workflows to choose from — check them out below and use the ones that work best for you. 6 Ways To Curate Using SAM From Social Search: simply drag and drop assets from...
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Everyone’s workflow is a bit different, especially when it comes to curating social UGC. Within SAM, there are 6 different workflows to choose from — check them out below and use the ones that work best for you. 6 Ways To Curate Using SAM From Social Search: simply drag and drop assets from...
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6 Ways to Curate Social UGC Using SAM
Everyone’s workflow is a bit different, especially when it comes to curating social UGC. With SAM, there are 6 different workflows to choose from — check them out below and use the ones that work best for you. 6 Ways To Curate Social Media Content From Social Search: simply drag and drop as...
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Everyone’s workflow is a bit different, especially when it comes to curating social UGC. With SAM, there are 6 different workflows to choose from — check them out below and use the ones that work best for you. 6 Ways To Curate Social Media Content From Social Search: simply drag and drop as...
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Social Newsgathering: The Next Opportunity For Hyperlocal News
For the better part of a year, the future of media has been a focal point of conversation and controversy. As the public’s trust in established brands reaches all-time lows, companies like The New York Times are seeing hard earned growth while less familiar organizations, like Breitbart, ar...
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For the better part of a year, the future of media has been a focal point of conversation and controversy. As the public’s trust in established brands reaches all-time lows, companies like The New York Times are seeing hard earned growth while less familiar organizations, like Breitbart, ar...
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Social Newsgathering: The Next Opportunity For Hyper-local News
For the better part of a year, the future of media has been a focal point of conversation and controversy. As the public’s trust in established brands reaches all-time lows, companies like The New York Times are seeing hard earned growth, while less familiar organizations like Breitbart are...
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For the better part of a year, the future of media has been a focal point of conversation and controversy. As the public’s trust in established brands reaches all-time lows, companies like The New York Times are seeing hard earned growth, while less familiar organizations like Breitbart are...
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Product Update: New Verification Tools
For many, the processes and tools currently being used to verify social content is top of mind. It’s likely that much of this mindfulness can be attributed to the political events that have recently transpired in the US and UK. While the outcomes of these events are not yet fully realized, it i...
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For many, the processes and tools currently being used to verify social content is top of mind. It’s likely that much of this mindfulness can be attributed to the political events that have recently transpired in the US and UK. While the outcomes of these events are not yet fully realized, it i...
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Product Update: Collections
The SAM Collections tab is home for publishers and brands looking to curate social content. Over the past few weeks we’ve been hard at work adding new features to further streamline your social newsgathering workflow. Let’s take walk through the reimagined Collections experience to make sure you...
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The SAM Collections tab is home for publishers and brands looking to curate social content. Over the past few weeks we’ve been hard at work adding new features to further streamline your social newsgathering workflow. Let’s take walk through the reimagined Collections experience to make sure you...
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Our Guide to Covering the Trump Inauguration
The time has come. Donald Trump is about to be sworn in as the President of the United States. If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that Twitter is the first line of communication. Social media is no longer an additional tool for coverage, it’s a critical starting point and source for stories. W...
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The time has come. Donald Trump is about to be sworn in as the President of the United States. If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that Twitter is the first line of communication. Social media is no longer an additional tool for coverage, it’s a critical starting point and source for stories. W...
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How Embed Decay is Hurting Your Google Search Ranking
In the first wave of digital transformations, SEO was at the top of everyone’s priority list. Then came social… and Facebook quickly become the number one referrer of traffic to sites. Despite living in a social dominated news distribution era, you should certainly not discount Google and it’s im...
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In the first wave of digital transformations, SEO was at the top of everyone’s priority list. Then came social… and Facebook quickly become the number one referrer of traffic to sites. Despite living in a social dominated news distribution era, you should certainly not discount Google and it’s im...
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Social Embed Decay and How It’s Wrecking Your Articles
Not long ago, journalists had to be “on the ground” to capture eye-witness content. Now, they simply refresh their Twitter timeline or leverage tools like SAM, to be in the know, within a matter of seconds. The flood of content sourced via social networks inevitably made it’s way into news report...
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Not long ago, journalists had to be “on the ground” to capture eye-witness content. Now, they simply refresh their Twitter timeline or leverage tools like SAM, to be in the know, within a matter of seconds. The flood of content sourced via social networks inevitably made it’s way into news report...
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SAM Selected for the First Inaugural Cultural Start-up Award
We couldn’t be more excited to announce that SAM has been named winner of the first inaugural Cultural Start-up Award, at the conclusion of Enterprising Culture, a major international forum for Franco-Canadian creative and cultural industry start-ups. The event, was produced by the Canadian Film...
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We couldn’t be more excited to announce that SAM has been named winner of the first inaugural Cultural Start-up Award, at the conclusion of Enterprising Culture, a major international forum for Franco-Canadian creative and cultural industry start-ups. The event, was produced by the Canadian Film...
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Introducing the First Draft Partner Network
Today First Draft News announced the launch of their new partner network and we couldn’t be more excited to team up with Google, Twitter, Facebook and the many newsrooms committed to quality journalism in the social media age. Since day one, our mission has been to provide the most robust social ...
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Today First Draft News announced the launch of their new partner network and we couldn’t be more excited to team up with Google, Twitter, Facebook and the many newsrooms committed to quality journalism in the social media age. Since day one, our mission has been to provide the most robust social ...
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Tying into Facebook Signal
Facebook is one of the most important social networks for social media newsgathering. As the single largest social network it’s no surprise it holds the largest potential for quality UGC. However, searching, verify and curating UGC can be somewhat of a challenge. Facebook Signal aims to tic...
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Facebook is one of the most important social networks for social media newsgathering. As the single largest social network it’s no surprise it holds the largest potential for quality UGC. However, searching, verify and curating UGC can be somewhat of a challenge. Facebook Signal aims to tic...
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AP Invests in SAM
Today I’m extremely pleased to announce one of our largest customers – and certainly our most active and avid user – the formidable Associated Press, has taken an equity stake in SAM. Our mission since we started SAM has been to build the most robust social newsgathering and storytelling platform...
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Today I’m extremely pleased to announce one of our largest customers – and certainly our most active and avid user – the formidable Associated Press, has taken an equity stake in SAM. Our mission since we started SAM has been to build the most robust social newsgathering and storytelling platform...
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