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The importance of social networks for mass media professionals, especially for news librarians –whose traditional intermediary role limited their visibility to users– is explained. Examples of documentation centres and news librarians’ profiles in social media like weblogs, Facebook, Twitter or Eskup are offered.

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The problem of dispersion of the conversations on social networking sites (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc.) is presented. The threads of people’s conversation who have contributed with their own comments to your post are not always next to it. Despite the existence of partial solutions, a tendency to limit the discussion and the discovery only to our contacts is identified.

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Although the comic has been with us much longer than other arts considered as such without prejudice, there are currently no appropriate search tools that allow us to study this publication genre, so there is a considerable information vacuum in this respect. We briefly discuss the reasons that led to this neglect, and how to end this vicious circle that increasingly isolates the comic from the other arts.

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The digital media has proven successful with a specific type of information which is of great interest to those readers, accustomed to using diverse technology that furnishes them with the news on a variety of platforms: internet newspapers, information on social networks, informative documents on video, etc. This article studies how the blogs have created their own niche among the readers of digital press and how they have been incorporated into the digital newspapers to the point where they now have their own section. A special study is also made of the main Spanish digital daily papers.

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A methodology to implement a corporate external blog is proposed. Firstly, there is an introduction to the new models of organizational communication with customers and users, resulting from the acceptance of new technologies in society and the development of Web 2.0. Secondly, it delves into the blog concept and the benefits that this type of tools can afford within the corporate realm, along with their types and functions, to finally propose a methodology for successful corporate implementation of an external blog.

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Description of an institutional blog, created by the library of the Colmenarejo campus of the University Carlos III of Madrid. The aim of the blog is to promote reading among the university population. After first assessing the potential of this participative digital medium for encouraging the use of literature collections, the article describes the steps taken by the library in this campaign that include acquisitions, exhibitions and book reviews posted to the blog.