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Articles tagged Facebook groups (15)

Shan WangMarch 22, 2017

Want a calmer place to discover and discuss The Washington Post’s reporting? Try this Facebook group

“There’s a reason the group’s called PostThis — we want people to take stories we share there and actually post them to their own networks.”

Shan WangJanuary 6, 2017

With its subscribers Facebook group, The Boston Globe is mining the stickiest corners of the platform

An average post in the private subscribers group of just over 2,000 members attracts about twice the number of comments as a post on the Globe’s main Facebook page, which is approaching half a million likes.

Ricardo BiltonApril 6, 2016

NPR built a private personal finance Facebook group that now has more than 10,000 members

“The group has become a great community in its own right.”

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 22, 2016

The Longest Shortest Time shutters its huge, unruly Facebook moms group to focus on the podcast

The private Facebook group hit 18,000 members, with many threads devolving into fights over touchy parenting topics.

Adrienne LaFranceMay 21, 2012

From cold calls to community building: ProPublica tries to make crowdsourcing more meaningful

ProPublica hopes its Patient Harm Facebook group will show that the value of crowdsourcing can be more than mining social media for sources.

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