Ukraine 
WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines: Bad News for International Media Development(2)
WaPo’s social media guidelines very clearly place tremendous constraints on the ability for its journalists to truly engage people through social media, because they will not be able to use them in an engaging way.
MediaNext: Training Facebook in the Land of Vkontakte
So, you are sitting in Ukraine, and you are wondering, “Do I train Facebook or do I train Vkontakte?” If you understand what both can do, which one is more powerful, you think the answer’s easy—Facebook. Then you realize that Vkontakte is the website that gets the most traffic in Ukraine, among ALL websites. Yeah, it’s that popular. Facebook? #36.
MediaNext: Convincing Skeptics of Twitter’s Power in Ukraine
Twitter was the tool I was most excited and nervous about teaching in Ukraine. It can appear to the beginner to be a gimmick, something fun at first, but ephemeral.
MediaNext: A New Ukrainian Adventure in New Media (continued)
I’ll pick up where I left off in my previous post…
We’re teaching Vkontakte, and showing examples of how journalists are using Facebook. I’d prefer it was just Facebook, because to be honest, Vkontakte is the runt you throw back, by comparison–you can only do a fraction on it of what you can do on Facebook. [...]
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