Chelsey W.'s social media evaluation

In the bottom right corner of MSNBC's website are numerous links to various social media outlets including facebook and twitter.

It also has an alert and subscription feature that you can set up to have sent via mobile device or the old fashioned way (through a newsletter). Under this section, you can manually select which alerts you want. It is categorized by breaking news, mnbc.com, tv shows, and TODAY (which I assume is the morning talk show on its parent network, NBC). This is nice since it doesn't require you receive alerts about everything, but, instead can receive an alert from Rachel Maddow and the business section of msnbc.com. As with news features, you can also have different blogs alerts sent to your phone, but you have to register with the website to do this.

In addition to this, it also has a RSS feed and a podcasts feed which both require subscriptions as well. The podcasts are available on both itunes and zune so it doesn't limit itself to just itunes, which is interesting. These two can be found on separate links on the main page of the website in the bottom right corner, but they can also be found within the link for interactive news tools which is located in the same area of the main page.

Within the news tools link, msnbc has created apps, widgets, and a central dispatch that sends out mobile alerts, email newsletters, and online instant messages. Furthermore, the company has an online arcade that is made up exclusively of news-infused games, including the first ever cinematic crowd playing news game.

So not only does msnbc have the obligigatory links to facebook, twitter, RSS, and podcasts, it has also created numerous ways to have news alerts sent to a person and has even created arcade games inorder to make news reading fun and interesting.

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Chelsea Toledo's Briggs Assignment- Social Media

Classic City Rollergirls skate a fine line between athletic organization and social outlet. Their media committee and league president, UGA librarian Sheila McAlister, have taken measures to make information about the league accessible to their fans through a variety of social media outlets.

The Rollergirls' website boasts a "keep updated" tab, linking visitors to information about joining the listserv as well as CCRG's Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, and Twitter pages. The website also has a forum with public pages on which fans can direct questions directly to team members and team members can talk to each other.

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3) Social Media

CNN's Website is equipped with two of the bigger social networks (Facebook and Google) on their website. People can connect to the website using Facebook, and there is a twitter page for CNN breaking news. Additionally, CNN is creating its own "Digg" feature with an item called NewsPulse. This item helps measure the popular stories that are currently present on CNN.

CNN also has numerous blogs (a complete list can be found here). The most active one is the political ticker. Each can be subscribed to via XML.

Finally, there is an RSS feature present on CNN. However, the best way to use this feature is to have a Yahoo account. There are other ways (by pasting the address into an RSS reader) but this feature is not as user friendly.

Finally, CNN lists podcasts that it currently produces. Most of these podcasts correspond to the blogs. There are links to subscribe to each podcast, including a link to the podcasts on iTunes.

CNN's website uses many items related to social networks that it actively participates in. It is even trying to create some of its own versions of that social media.