Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Teaching a teenager about social media Paid Members Public
Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph [http://tmgacademy.weebly.com/jashana.html] enjoyed my training: > One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called ‘Writing for the Web’. This course was
Twitter joins the Group Messaging game - and brings video, too Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/01/twitter-group-messages.png] A big – but expected – announcement from Twitter today. Group messaging is here: 30 seconds of Twitter video Possibly more interesting from a journalistic point of view is the fact that they’re adding video natively into Twitter
Your social media sermon for Sunday Paid Members Public
Simon Gough [http://mistergough.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/group-love/]: > At some point, caring about how many friends and followers we have will be the preserve of the self-obsessed and the corporate. What really matters is what we can do; how we can embrace the fluidity of the web
"Twitter is our competition" Paid Members Public
> “Twitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,” said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. That’s a controversial start to a nice piece from Abigail at journalism.co.uk, from a Web Summit panel on journalism and social media [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/
Social media, data journalism and #gamergate Paid Members Public
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/10/obligatory_gamergate_post.html] would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data
Twitter's head of news out after a year Paid Members Public
Twitter’s head of news Vivian Schiller is stepping down [http://recode.net/2014/10/08/twitter-news-head-vivian-schiller-out/]: > Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec whom Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. Adam Sharp will now be in charge
Influencers? Forget about them. Paid Members Public
Are you obsessed with finding “influencers” for your brand or journalism? Forget about it. It’s a fiction, an seductive idea that science does not support – according to a recent post on the Harvard Business Review: > Duncan Watts, a researcher at Microsoft who co-created one of the most important
De Rosa and the social media misinformation problem Paid Members Public
Interesting interview with Anthony De Rosa [http://www.wework.com/magazine/inspiration/journey-worth-following-anthony-de-rosa-climb-from-tumblr-to-circa-editor/] : > Through live blogging, De Rosa says he began to learn the value of information verification. Social media poses an increasingly large problem in the spreading of false or inaccurate information. Especially in times of breaking news,
