Vadim Lavrusik

I'm the Community Manager & Social Strategist at Mashable.com. I also teach social media at the Columbia Journalism School and organize @CMMeetup in NYC.
Texas Wedding (Cameron & Nathan) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Can’t Miss Facebook Videos from October: http://media.fb.com/2014...
Flipboard will introduce video ads in September with Chanel as an initial partner http://thenextweb.com/insider... via @thenextweb
In Ferguson, @washingtonpost reporter @WesleyLowery gives account of his arrest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politic...
How Facebook Mentions is enabling public figures to engage with their fans: http://mashable.com/2014...
Celebrities Are All Up In Your Facebook Statuses http://mashable.com/2014... via @mashable
"The persistent financial demands of Wall Street have trumped the informational needs of Main Street." - carr2n http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
So fun having @hbarnes at Facebook HQ this week as an "extern," learned a lot from him - http://mashable.com/2014...
Remembering War Correspondent Jim Frederick, 42: http://observer.com/2014... Very saddened by this. Had the pleasure of meeting him a few times.
Facebook and fewer stories behind rise in web traffic, says Telegraph chief: http://www.theguardian.com/media...
Being a bettter online reader (in the age of distraction): http://www.newyorker.com/online...
Introducing Facebook Mentions: A new app for public figures - http://newsroom.fb.com/news...
Today, we're launching Facebook Mentions, a new app for public figures I've had the pleasure of working on: https://t.co/254e4fGK9E
Nadella: “Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world” http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
"Reimagining tech journalism." @waltmossberg on @Recode and its vision for covering tech in a new way: http://www.skyword.com/content...
141 million are people talking about the World Cup in week 1, creating 459 million interactions: http://techcrunch.com/2014...
Univision, Facebook Team for Social World Cup Broadcasts - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news...
The @nytimes announced NYT Opinion standalone app and subscription, includes a curated commentary stream: http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Introducing new creative tools to edit photos on Instagram: http://blog.instagram.com/post... Big fan of being able to adjust intensity of filters.
Six Takeaways From the Code Conference http://recode.net/2014... curious to see what Apple announces next.
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images http://www.nytimes.com/2014... And how facial recognition software continues to improve.
The @WSJ reporting that Twitter backed out of @SoundCloud buy because "numbers didn't add up" - http://online.wsj.com/news...
Editor's exit at the @nytimes puts tensions on display: http://www.nytimes.com/2014... "The lack of decorum was stunning"
Interesting look at how rumors spreads through social media from @facebook's data science team: https://t.co/KScGJE6OJZ
Disney tried to buy @BuzzFeed but convos fell apart over 1bn price tag: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014...
CUNY developing a masters degree in social journalism: https://t.co/STFKjQNrif Love that the informal term is now a degree via @jeffjarvis
Adobe Social Index: Facebook leads other platforms in referred revenue per visit: http://www.adexchanger.com/data-nu...
Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition & Limited Attention: http://techcrunch.com/2014... Depersonalizing creates bigger problem