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	<title>Vadim Lavrusik</title>
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		<title>Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/07/25/top-20-sites-to-improve-your-twitter-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/07/25/top-20-sites-to-improve-your-twitter-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt that originally appeared on Mashable.com. Read the full post on Mashable. &#8220;140-character status updates to a network of followers.&#8221; That makes Twitter sound simple. But in fact, the social information platform has grown to be much more complex than its 140 character-limit suggests. The site not only connects people, but has [...]


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<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/08/31/tips-tools-to-keep-your-twits-organized-and-noise-to-a-minimum/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tips, tools to keep your Twits organized and noise to a minimum'>Tips, tools to keep your Twits organized and noise to a minimum</a></li>
<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/06/12/too-much-simplicity-may-be-whats-slowing-twitter-growth/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Too much simplicity may be what&#8217;s slowing Twitter growth'>Too much simplicity may be what&#8217;s slowing Twitter growth</a></li>
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		<title>My next chapter: Joining Mashable</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/05/13/my-next-chapter-joining-mashable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my last day working at The New York Times, and in a little over a week I will start a new job as the Community Manager at Mashable.com. I am going to miss the brilliant folks I have gotten to work with at the Times, but am quite excited and honored to be [...]


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<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/09/16/7-ways-to-make-news-sites-more-social/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 7 ways to make news sites more social'>7 ways to make news sites more social</a></li>
<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/08/04/5-reasons-why-twitter-will-continue-to-grow/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 5 reasons why Twitter will continue to grow'>5 reasons why Twitter will continue to grow</a></li>
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		<title>The missing link in journalism curricula: Community engagement</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/05/12/the-missing-link-in-journalism-curricula-community-engagement/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/05/12/the-missing-link-in-journalism-curricula-community-engagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Tuesday, I will graduate with a master&#8217;s of science degree in digital media from the prestigious Columbia University Journalism School. As I graduate, I have gained skills in reporting, video production, audio, editing, Flash, Web development (including five different websites), design and almost every other fundamental and new skill journalists need today. But one [...]


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<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/11/28/what-major-would-you-recommend-for-a-highschooler-pursuing-a-career-in-journalism/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What major would you recommend for a highschooler pursuing a career in journalism?'>What major would you recommend for a highschooler pursuing a career in journalism?</a></li>
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		<title>5 ways to embed your tweet</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/05/04/5-ways-to-embed-your-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/05/04/5-ways-to-embed-your-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Twitter Media blog announced Monday that it would release a tool that would enable users embed tweets more easily. Today it released a script that isn&#8217;t perfect called Blackbird Pie that allows you to get a code and embed a dynamic tweet without the post of a blog or article. It&#8217;s an alternative to [...]


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<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2009/07/15/10-ways-universities-use-social-media-to-share-information/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 10 ways universities use social media to share information'>10 ways universities use social media to share information</a></li>
<li><a href='http://lavrusik.com/2010/07/25/top-20-sites-to-improve-your-twitter-experience/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience'>Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience</a></li>
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		<title>So Facebook is everywhere? Well, its content needs some context</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/28/so-facebook-is-everywhere-well-its-content-needs-some-context/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/28/so-facebook-is-everywhere-well-its-content-needs-some-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has a problem: displaying user activity in a non-contextual way. Right now your recent activity displays on your wall whether you like it or not. For some people this causes dating problems, and others they simply take in bite-sized information about their friends friending so-and-so or &#8220;liking&#8221; this and that story without any contextual [...]


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		<title>CNN.com shows glimpse of Facebook&#8217;s new connectivity features (PICS)</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/21/cnn-com-shows-glimpse-of-facebooks-new-connectivity-features-pics/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/21/cnn-com-shows-glimpse-of-facebooks-new-connectivity-features-pics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is announcing many of its new features today, and some news organizations are wasting no time in integrating and testing them. Nieman Lab reported that Washington Post has integrated Facebook in a new tool that let&#8217;s users see how their friends have interacted with a story. It is part of Facebook&#8217;s latest push to [...]


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		<title>10 Commandments of Twitter Etiquette</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/07/10-commandments-of-twitter-etiquette/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/04/07/10-commandments-of-twitter-etiquette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of ways, millions of users have found Twitter as a useful tool. Take journalists, for example. According to a recent survey, 37 percent of journalists said they are on Twitter. It&#8217;s no longer a small tech company that is troubled by servers being down (keeping fingers crossed). Now your non-techie friends are using [...]


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		<title>A killer feature Facebook needs now: Video Chat</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/03/26/a-killer-feature-facebook-needs-now-video-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is quickly becoming the primary social communication channel in our everyday lives. Yes, primary. We spend much more time obsessively interacting with people on Facebook than we do by phone and for some a life-line. I think that they could take it one step further by implementing video chat capability &#8212; a functionality that [...]


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		<title>The Startup: Four Entrepreneurs Battle the Odds in Gotham</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/03/22/the-startup-four-entrepreneurs-battle-the-odds-in-gotham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism school]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Startup is a four-chapter video documentary with interactives on a young tech startup trying to make it in New York City. My colleague Alex Hotz and I followed the entrepreneurs behind TeamHomeField.com for the past four months as they develop and grow their web-based video application for sports teams. It&#8217;s being hosted on NYC30.com, [...]


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		<title>A wordcloud of Pew&#8217;s State of the News Media 2010 Report</title>
		<link>http://lavrusik.com/2010/03/15/a-wordcloud-of-pews-state-of-the-news-media-2010-report/</link>
		<comments>http://lavrusik.com/2010/03/15/a-wordcloud-of-pews-state-of-the-news-media-2010-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Lavrusik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the excerpts from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism “State of the News Media 2010” report and inserted them into wordle to get a word cloud of the text. It&#8217;s interesting that &#8220;pay&#8221; comes up as one of the dominant words. I am guessing it will be a theme for this [...]


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