Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
infrastructure
Social media: youâre doing it wrong [http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/938043/BusinessWeek-sinks-16m-social-media-project/] : > NEW YORK â As the bid deadline for ailing BusinessWeek magazine approaches the McGraw-Hill title is revealed to have spent $16m on creating its social networking site, which is generating little cash. BusinessWeek launched its social
Blogging
This video has been making the rounds of the company this morning: The pleasing thing is that it wasnât me that started it, as it would have been 6 months ago. The times, they are aâchangingâŚ
conversation
This is an excellent summary of why you should care about social media: *(Warning: implied profanity throughout)*[What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later](http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later "What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later")View more [documents](http://www.
daily telegraph
Oh, yawn. Yet another newspaper columnist has a go at Twitter [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/5524402/Facebook-Everything-you-never-wanted-to-know....html] and social networking generally.  This time itâs Simon Heffer of the Telegraph, and you can predict the main beats of the article: shallow, pointless, empty⌠At least
Blogging
âModeration in everything,â my late mother used to say, somewhat ironically given how much unused wool and unpainted china she left behind. But, like many clichĂŠs, it has a deep element of truth, as Iâve discovered by disconnecting somewhat from my normal blogging-twittering-photographing lifestyle. A quiet weekend with friends
Journalism
There is, I think, a tendency for journalists to over-complicate social media and how they talk about it. Somehow they makes something which is fundamentally just about talking to people, well, hard. Look at the recent kerfuffle about the WSJ [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_
BBC
*Photo by [RachelH_ on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagelmouse/3403502047/), used under a [Creative Commons licence](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB)*My work schedule means that Iâm sat in Sutton today, while all the reporting action is up in central London, as
conferences
Iâm at the Social Media influence 09 [http://www.screenevents.co.uk/smi_09/] conference in London this morning. Lots of interesting stuff cropping up, but I did like Robin [http://www.cybersoc.com]âs use of Twitter as a back-channel during the Enterprise 2.0 panel. The technology
Blogging
I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another memberâs post which stated that the member hadnât come across any journalist who donât believe that good journalism can happen online, and that
Blogging
Laura Oliver of Journalism.co.uk [http://www.journalism.co.uk/] has started a video conversation about the NUJ & social media over on video conversation service Seesmic: If youâve got a webcam, you can join in [http://seesmic.com/videos/DdZC1OmJRA].
digital journalism
I have something of a love/hate relationship with the National Union of Journalists. Love, because I believe in the principle of unions, and because the NUJ has done good things for some of my former colleagues [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/07/unfair_dismissa.html]. Hate, because I
Journalists
Reflections on a difficult year working on the intersection of journalism and emerging media.