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guide to using social media (in 6500 words)
Late last year, and early this year, I embarked on a social media training roadshow (for Headshift) that took me to the far corners of England, Scotland and Wales. My purpose was to show each of the...
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user centred news
[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social...
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curating, not moderating, the flow of content and participation
[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500...
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real time snow reports via twitter
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a...
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Just came across this interesting presentation, from October last year, by Neil Perkin, "Director of Marketing & Strategy for the commercial functions of IPC Media, the well known UK publisher of...
View Articletwitter users tweet round the ashpocolypse
In a blog post yesterday, the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones describes how stranded European air passengers have been using twitter and facebook to organise lifts home. Like no fewer than six of my Headshift...
View Articlerough draft: outline for lecture on entrepreneurial journalism
In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a lecture at City University, where I'm a Visiting Journalism Fellow, on Entrepreneurial Journalism. My intention isn't to offer any answers, just point out some...
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cnni panel discussion at the frontline this thursday
I've been involved in helping CNNi, a client, organise a panel discussion on the role of mobile phones in news gathering, journalism and the consumption of news. The event, which has Journalism.co.uk...
View Articlea potted history of online community management
The past few days, I've been working on a presentation for the Vircomm Summit, a gathering of the online community management industry, which will take place in London this Thursday. Rather than...
View Articleslides: a potted history of online community management 1985 to 2013
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving a rather personal presentation at the Vircomm Conference – a potted history of online community management, from 1985 to present, as lived from my own...
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