{"id":100734,"date":"2014-11-21T07:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=100734"},"modified":"2014-11-21T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:19:31","slug":"use-social-media-to-boost-news-dissemination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=100734","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Use Social Media To Boost News Dissemination\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A communication special<br \/>\nist, Mr Yinka Olaito, has advised media organisations to encourage the use of social media,\u00a0to boost news dissemination.<br \/>\nHe gave the advice in an interview with newsmen\u00a0 in Lagos.<br \/>\nOlaito, the Chief Executive Officer of the Michael Sage Consulting, Lagos, however, emphasised the need to regulate the use of social media,\u00a0to avoid pitfalls.<br \/>\nThe specialist said that digital media could be used to gather information, break news and check facts, towards disseminating quality news,\u00a0at all times.<br \/>\n\u201cMedia organisations must also formulate social media policies\u00a0to regulate how their journalists access and use them\u00a0in their reportage.<br \/>\n\u201cThey must have regulation, which should be used as a tool to assist the profession,\u00a0by promoting, creating and evaluating the individuals on the job.<br \/>\n\u201cIt will, however,\u00a0be out of place to bar journalists from having social media platforms,\u2019\u2019 he said.<br \/>\nOlaito encouraged the use of platforms such as google, google plus, facebook, twitter, skype, flicker and linkedIn,\u00a0for positive interactions and news data collection.<br \/>\nHe also advised that every social media in an organisation should be secured,\u00a0to protect data and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A communication special ist, Mr Yinka Olaito, has advised media organisations to encourage the use of social media,\u00a0to boost news dissemination. He gave the advice in an interview with newsmen\u00a0 in Lagos. Olaito, the Chief Executive Officer of the Michael Sage Consulting, Lagos, however, emphasised the need to regulate the use of social media,\u00a0to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}