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The document provides tips for effectively editing one's own writing. It recommends taking time away from the writing before reviewing it to gain better perspective. When reviewing, the author should consider the purpose, requirements, intentions, structure, grammar, facts, and crediting. A schedule working backwards from the deadline is suggested. If time is short, techniques like reading aloud and rearranging sections can help identify problems.
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Describes different types of metrics of effectiveness for charities as an aid for potential donors who are researching non-profits.
Instagram, Tik Tok, Pinterest, Linked In, Messenging: Social media at the int...
Tips for good use and measurement of social media platforms beyond Facebook and Twitter. Types of analytics found.
Framing media analytics and data ethics
This document discusses methods for evaluating research quality and ethics in data analysis. It describes key aspects of good research such as being organized, objective, controlled, and empirical. Good research topics are within a line of research, relevant to the real world, possible to conduct, and meaningful. When analyzing data, analysts should use a consistent method, consider the ethical implications of decisions, and protect data quality and confidentiality. The document also identifies potential risks to ethics like prioritizing professional needs over ethics.
Interviews and focus groups
This document discusses interviews and focus groups used in qualitative research. It defines key terms like exhaustive and mutually exclusive, and triangulation. It provides guidance on good interview techniques including establishing rapport and taking thorough notes. Focus groups are described as a type of group interview used to evaluate products, typically with 4-6 participants who are actual users. The document outlines best practices for preparing, conducting, and analyzing focus groups, including reserving space, preparing stimuli and questions, paying attention to group dynamics, and thematically coding and reporting results.
Ethics and data
This document defines key terms and concepts related to data ethics and outlines potential risks and guidelines. It discusses how decisions have ethical implications and should be made consistently. It defines terms like data, data scientist, data quality, signal, noise, and algorithms. It also outlines statistical concepts and potential risks like the ludic fallacy, naïve interventionism, and narrative fallacy. The document concludes by stating analysts should not provide explanations beyond their abilities, should explain methods and limitations, protect confidential information, avoid conflicts of interest, and use the scientific method.
Twitter analytics for sports bloggers
White paper from Elon Media Analytics students. Blogging and microblogging is a key image-management strategy for athletes and teams. This paper describes some best practices for using Twitter analytics to optimize social media efforts in sports.
Social media for non profits
Social media can be a time-consuming, but worthwhile way for non-profits to engage with their constituencies. Learn practical tips from this white paper from Elon Media Analytics students.
Snapchat advertising for independent films
This whitepaper from Elon Media Analytics students examines how smaller-budget cinema productions can use Snapchat as a way to generate buzz about upcoming films.
Snapchat for the news
This whitepaper from Elon Media Analytics describes how more traditional news organizations can use the Snapchat social media platform for story telling and to engage potential younger audiences.
Snapchat for corporate PR
This white paper discusses how public relations can use Snapchat's Discover feature to improve brands. It notes that Snapchat Discover reaches over 60 million active users, mainly millennials and older smartphone users. The paper explains how businesses can create video content on Discover to engage audiences, build their brand image, and humanize the brand. It recommends that public relations consistently provide new content and exclusive rewards to maintain user engagement with the Discover feature in order to drive brand awareness, recognition, and loyalty.
Google analytics for small business
A whitepaper from Elon Media Analytics Students. This paper describes some of the benefits of using Google Analytics to plan web content for small businesses.
Contests and games for Small Businesses
Paper from Elon Media Analytics Students describes how small businesses can use contests and games to boost customer engagement and ultimately sales.
Writing about numbers
The number of subscribers increased 17% in February from 26,172 to 31,498, with 371 re-subscribing after lapsing for over 6 months. While the increase seems large, data should be presented clearly and concisely to provide meaningful context and avoid numerical fallacies. Only include as many details as needed to understand the key trends, avoiding excessive numbers or percentages that can confuse readers.
Write more effective emails
This document provides tips for writing effective emails like a professional. It recommends (1) including a meaningful subject line and appropriate greeting to provide context, (2) sticking to one idea per short paragraph and using transitions to make the email easy to use, and (3) considering the entire group audience, proofreading carefully, and avoiding insincerity when communicating to use resources wisely.
User personas
A quick guide for creating audience personas to make your writing and other communication more targeted and effective
Terrible presentations
A short slide deck on creating terrible Power Point presentations that will alienate your audience and maybe even make them angry.
Online Reputation
Principles and practices for managing online reputation. Created for Elon iMedia course in SEO, analytics and social media.
Moneyball journalism
Short deck about how audiences find information, and how that affects the jobs that journalists do. Additional advice for educators.
Content curation
Sorting through news and information to share the best content with your followers adds value. Here's how to do it.
Analytics at Elon
We have a new media analytics major at Elon, as well as graduate courses in strategy. Here's what we are teaching.
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Editing your own work
- 2. YOU NEED TIME AWAY • Your brain knows what you mean, not always what you say • Can affect your perception of what is actually there
- 3. REVIEW REQUIREMENTS • What was your purpose in writing this • Specific assignment from others? • Specific goals of your own? • Is the form appropriate? • Length • Tone • Content/evidence Review other articles in publication to make sure yours is similar
- 4. REVIEW INTENTIONS • Can you summarize your point in a sentence? • My reader should know ______________ • My reader should think/believe _____________ • Does everything in your article serve to support your point? • Is it essential? • Is its relationship clear?
- 5. GENERAL PRACTICES • Grammar, style, spelling, punctuation correct? • Are all facts checked • Proper names • Quotes used fairly • Credit given wherever appropriate
- 6. SCHEDULING – WORK BACKWARDS • Deadline • Final read • Day of rest • Intermediate fixing (a week or so) • Day of rest • Completion of first draft • Etc. Etc. Etc.
- 7. DEADLINE LOOMING? • Need to “break the frame” in which you see it, to find problems • Read it out loud to someone (over the phone is even better) • Follow with a finger to make sure you read each word • Ask for feedback • What was this about • Was this convincing • Read it out loud to yourself • Read it with sections out of order • Read one sentence at a time, from back to front