Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Twitter: the foundation of a new site launch? Paid Members Public
From Dan Frommer’s progress report three months into his excellent SplatF [http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/month-three/] blog: > Top traffic referrers include Techmeme, Twitter, and Daring Fireball. I’ll probably write about this in more depth someday, but it’s amazing how much Twitter influences how someone
One hour on the UK internet Paid Members Public
 Fascinating how social media has come to dominate web use – and how the old “porn drives web innovation” maxim is clearly no longer true.More cogent [analysis at
Media140: The Unethical Web Paid Members Public
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
Journalists don't own their Twitter followers Paid Members Public
Laura Kuenssberg makes the case of why she can take her Twitter followers with her.
Nostalgia is not a viable approach to journalism (part 267) Paid Members Public
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,
Leading from the Social Media front Paid Members Public
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’
Twitter account ownership, logic lessons and what the BBC really lost Paid Members Public
Did Laura Kuenssberg take 60,000 followers away from the BBC?
After NotW: what might the future of media look like? Paid Members Public
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’
