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Club Des Belugas - Iain MacKenzie (2SoundMix Remix)

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"All Aboard" - Crystal Huang, Yoko's Dance & Performing Arts, mini jazz solo, Showstopper San Mateo, February 2017 ★ Choreography by ? ♪ All Aboard (remix) ~ Club des Belugas ft. Iain Mackenzie ♪ Bom Bom (fragment) ~ Sam and the Womp

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Golden Eagles Thriving At Scottish Wind Farm

Golden Eagles Thriving At Scottish Wind Farm

The ECOreport reposts a story contradicting reports that windfalls slaughter these birds, golden eagles thriving at Scottish wind farm

Originally Published on Clean Technica

By Joshua Hill

The findings of a twenty year-long research project has revealed that golden eagles in proximity to the Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland are thriving, throwing a spanner in the works for anyone who claims…

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『Love Me All Around The World』by Iain MacKenzie

I’m throwing this in here because I love the tune and also it’s just a must-hear for language nerds as many different dictions for “I love you” in different languages are sampled during the song!

If you know other songs like this or like German comedian Bodo Wartke’s “Liebeslied”, don’t refuse to tell me 😍

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Facebook for journalists

Iain Mackenzie from Facebook came in to The Wall Street Journal's London offices a few weeks ago (10 April) and gave a talk on Facebook for journalists.

We also had an Instagram for journalists session.

Iain, who used to be tech editor for the BBC News website, shared his tips. Here are my notes from the session.

Journalists use Facebook for three things:

Discovery

Story creation

Distribution

Discovery

Iain gave several examples of how Facebook can be used for newsgathering.

Facebook is sometimes the only place where officials share news, he said.

For example, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is very active Facebook user and shares announcements.

Ukrainian politician Arsen Avakov became acting minister of interior on 22 Feb. On 24 Feb he posted that an arrest warrant had been issued for former president Victor Yanokovych.

Then Medvedev took to Facebook in response.

Some people have 'pages' set up, others are personal profiles which you can 'follow'.

Tip: Manage the flow of information via interest lists

Interest lists are a bit like Twitter lists in that you can create lists of key sources. You don't have to be following that person / organisation to add them to a list.

You can add a page or person to an interest list by clicking 'add to interest lists' > +new list > next > give it a name.

You can make interest lists public and share the URL. Alternatively, you can set to 'friends only' or 'only me'.

On the left-hand side of the Facebook newsfeed, you then see your list.

It's not algorithmically sorted like your Facebook newsfeed; instead you see it in backwards chronological order.

Story creation

There are 1.2 billion people on Facebook, so it is a great way to find sources, Iain said.

Here are three tips:

1. Just ask people. The BBC World Service does this very well, Iain said. They asked readers for 'women that have inspired you' and used responses on air.

2. Find a page that relates to the story. For example, one of the journalists covering the story of the helicopter which crashed onto a pub in Glasgow used Facebook to find the page of the band that was playing in the pub at the time of the accident.

3. Finding people. Iain talked through an example of finding 'Young Welsh Conservatives' using Facebook's Open Graph search. Graph Search is the search feature that treats location, places, dates etc as searchable.

Example search

'People from Wales who like the Conservative Party and were born after 1980'

(Simply type that into the bar at the top of your Facebook newsfeed.)

The results show public information that the user has chosen to make public / share.

This search could then be narrowed by looking for male young Conservatives from Cardiff. 

In some cases you can message people directly. It goes to the 'other inbox'. You can pay a nominal fee, of £0.41, (to avoid spam). 

Example search:

Pictures taken in Maiden, by people from Kiev.

Facebook also allows you to make contact with newsmakers / real witnesses, Iain said.

Example search:

Iain showed a great example, of looking for photos photos of Tahrir Square taken by people who live in Cairo.

Once these photos are displayed you can then further refine the search.

When Iain tried this search, one particular face stood out from the pictures. He could tell this was of someone called Mohamed Mohsen.

His profile said he was singer and had 32,000 followers (he's since switched to a Facebook page).

The profile provided a link to his Twitter profile and his YouTube channel, which had a video of him singing on a TV talent show. Mohamed allows anyone to message him so could be contacted.

Iain suggested this would be a good contact for someone attempting to cover the story of Tahrir from afar.

And if you discover a particularly interesting Facebook update that helps you tell a story, it can be embedded within a news site.

Tip: You can embed a Facebook post from that person within a blog on your site.

Distribution

We all know that Facebook drives traffic to news site. Journalists can help push their own stories by either setting up a page or allowing people to follow their public posts.

There is an option to turn on 'follow' on any Facebook profile. This means others can follow without requiring a two-way reciprocal arrangement of friendship.

There's also an embeddable Facebook Follow button that can be added to blogs / websites.

Using Facebook Follow

For followers to see your posts you have to make the post public. That means you can keep photos / posts relating to family and friends as private to your followers.

If you want to check how you appear to the public, click 'view as' in Facebook. You can even use a particular name and see how much of your profile any individual sees. You can do this in 'activity log'.

Here are two tips for using Facebook Follow as a journalist.

Facebook Follow started life as Facebook Subscribe. I wrote a how-to guide on Facebook Subscribe back in 2012 while at Journalism.co.uk (interviewing two people who later became WSJ colleagues). Much of the advice – from Liz Heron (then at NYT), Neal Mann (then at Sky News) and Benjamin Cohen – is still relevant.

Iain's tips on making yourself worth following:

Share behind the scenes photos, engage with people. 

'Sell' your story, don't just post the link.

Stephen Sackur from BBC HardTalk does this well, Iain said. He hosted a live Facebook Q&A and got 129 questions.

We've also arranged Facebook Q&As. WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker hosted a Facebook Q&A in May.

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Proud to present: Iain Mackenzie, who was my vocal coach a few years back. A crooner, aye ;)