In February 2010, management Huffington Post, fast-growing, but not yet profitable online newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally published by other news sites, faces a number of decisions on its growth strategy. First of all, Huffington Post management must decide whether to rely more heavily on social networking technologies (eg, Facebook, Twitter), to select and provide services to specific users or continue to rely on human editors to play the role of facilitator. "Hide
by Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby Stuart, David Kiron Source: Harvard Business School 22 pages. Publication Date: March 29, 2010. Prod. #: 810086-PDF-ENG
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