Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
ethics
Warning: Liveblogging – error, omission and appalling grammar likely Claire Wardle Claire was an academic in Cardiff – deputy ethics officer – lots of conflict over journalist wanting to do illegal things in a “good cause”. On to the BBC College – where there were fights about contacting people and using materials from the
BBC
Laura Kuenssberg makes the case of why she can take her Twitter followers with her.
digital journalism
Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47752&c=1] appeared on the Press Gazette site. It wasn’t depressing because of the headline finding: > The top four most important skills cited by editors were: writing,
change management
Love this article, as tweeted [https://twitter.com/ksablan/status/98447987285573633] by Kevin Sablan: > Unless a once-in-a-lifetime story is breaking in your community, the most urgent challenge facing every news organization today is making a swift and successful transformation to the digital future. Leading that transition is every editor’
BBC
Did Laura Kuenssberg take 60,000 followers away from the BBC?
david cameron
I’m loathe to join the general mob of bloggers posting about every little twist and turn of the phone-hacking scandal, and the closure of the News of the Screws World. That market niche is filled sufficiently. I’m more interested in trying to discern the long-term consequences of what’
Blogging
Tracey Ullman, of all people, perfectly catches the media dynamic of our age [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracey-ullman/arianna-and-me_b_889612.html?ir=UK] in (inevitably) HuffPo UK: > When King George V died, his time of death was withheld so that theThe Times could break the news rather than
Blogging
Tom Jones [http://www.llanevandiary.blogspot.com/] tells the story of a farmer who blogged his way away from the precipice of madness: > It was my sister, ensconced within her warm east London office, who suggested I turn a roughly cobbled together email into a blog. Blogs, she informed
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
BBC
My, oh, my. I can’t remember the last time a small journalism event with only 30 attendees created such a fuss. But today’s first leg of the BBC Social Media Summit has done just that, with particularly strident criticism from Jeff Jarvis [http://www.buzzmachine.com/] on the
NEXT11
Martin Deinoff and Frederick Marcus gave what has to be the most strange presentation I’ve seen at NEXT. The talk was nominally about making data central to product design. You should bake technology into the product to make it better, they suggested. And there are several layers of data:
NEXT11
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