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> The purpose of writing on blogs, community sites like Comment is free, and much of social media is to start or further a conversation ā not to share a few writerly pearls of wisdom. The great majority of writers on this site (and the New Statesman, for that matter) are
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Idle thought, born of a conversation with a colleague [http://twitter.com/#!/KatieICISHeren]: Have we reached the point where having a social publishing strategy is no longer an advantage, but not having one is a massive competitive disadvantage?If we havenāt, it must beĀ imminent.
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Quoting myself, from nearly eight years ago [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/11/reviews_opinion.html]: > Everyone is entitled to an opinion, true enough. What most people fail to realise is that they are not entitled to have that opinion taken seriously. The ability to bash out a
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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/4397569681_24dae98374_z-2053.html] Thereās been a general sense of shock in the community that gathers around Like Minds, with the news that [Trey Pennington](http://treypennington.com/) took his own life yesterday.I only met him once, briefly, at
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It wasnāt just in Clapham that people pulled together in the aftermath of the riots: [via 853 [http://853blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/pride-in-woolwich-the-young-people-cleaning-up/] ]
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Love LOVE Love this: Made by students doing a [Design Jam](https://drumbeat.org/en-US/journalism/) in Dundee yesterday.
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Itās nearly the end of the conference, and Iām flagging. Iāve tried to distill the essence of the advice from three community-driven businesses and keep this punchy. Here goes: Jovoto [http://www.jovoto.com/] ā Bastian Unterberg I found the first talk the most difficult to get value
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WARNING: Liveblogging. Here be errors, inaccuracies and typos Peter Bihr [http://www.thewavingcat.com/] The panel is working on the assumption that social media is going to go away as a separate, but become integrated into the whole of the business. Mike Arauz [http://www.twitter.com/mikearauz], Undercurrent Mr
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The tabs in my browser were getting out of hand. Time for a link dump: * Is Twitter more media than social? [http://gigaom.com/2011/03/28/twitter-as-media-yes-celebrities-and-brands-still-matter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] Interesting. I suspect that thereā
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Oh, oh so thatās what the whole Friday / Rebecca Black twitter [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/socialtimes/~3/NcwehRdJgww/] business is about. There are times when Twitter completely embodies the phrase āmaking a mountain out of a molehillā.
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Fleet Street Blues [http://fleetstreetblues.blogspot.com/2011/03/difference-between-promoting-yarn-and.html] : > Are ācommunity moderatorsā and other suchĀ *multimeeja *typesĀ really journalists at all? Or is it an entirely different skill?And is it time we stopped pretending otherwise? Thatās exactly equivalent to asking if āpage designersā and other
