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# #bbcsms - Bringing together the digital conversation
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/05/bbcsms_-_bringing_together_the_digital_c/
- Published: 2011-05-20T15:11:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:13:26.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: #bbcsms, alan rusbridger, BBC, digital journalism, Journalism, Social Media, The Guardian, X (Twitter)

![Socmedsummit](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/05/socmedsummit.jpg?resize=525%2C393 "socmedsummit.jpg")

Claire Wardle is running a “pulling together” session. Key points so far:

**Verification:**

- Do we need to get more comfortable with saying that things are unverified
- Is it irresponsible to just push things out, knowing people won’y come back to check things later.
- More training needed on how to use tools?

**Ethics**

- Do we need to respect people supplying material more? Do we need to credit citizen journalists as we would our collegues
- Or do they just want to get that message out to the world? Is the personal credit irrelevant and a journalist obsession.
- Still a reluctance in newsrooms to name bloggers/tweeters/YouTubers
- Digital doorstopping – just grabbing content from people’s Facebook etc, which they don’t see as public, even if it is…

**Datasets**

- Reporters are expected to keep our notes for 5/7 years – but we don’t keep our tweets. Do we need to? Do we need formal archiving – which could also be useful to academics. (Paul Bradshaw)
- BBC has a scale of content, users and technologists – but they don’t open ANY of that up. They could make that much more accessible and usable (Emily Bell)

**Other issues:**

- How do we get working groups or collaboration communities out of this
- How do we get big media used to being intermediaries and middlemen rather than top-down editors of journalism?
- Specialist media has been virtually ignored in this discussion – we have plenty of experience in collaborating with communities.

**Alan Rusbridger:**

\- Cultural battle has been won, it’s now the practical battle (\[link\](https://twitter.com/noodlepie/status/71583849989156864)) - Does nobody else seeing a play have anything worth saying apart from a theatre critic? Clearly not. - Daft to think that you can cover the whole world with a small group of people in a newsroom - Moving beyond social media – open or mutual media - Story a very limited way of describing a world where things keep happening - Claims Guardian invented liveblogging, which is nonsense - Guardian US will give them the opportunity to experiment without traditional structures