Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Simon Heffer: Missing the Social in Twitter Paid Members Public
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 it’s Simon Heffer of the Telegraph, and you can predict the main beats of the article: shallow, pointless, empty… At least
The Importance of Disconnecting (Occasionally) Paid Members Public
“Moderation in everything,” my late mother used to say, somewhat ironically given how much unused wool and unpainted china she left behind. But, like many clichés, it has a deep element of truth, as I’ve discovered by disconnecting somewhat from my normal blogging-twittering-photographing lifestyle. A quiet weekend with friends
4 Steps to Social Media Heaven Paid Members Public
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_
Reporting the G20 Protests with Social Media Paid Members Public
*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 I’m sat in Sutton today, while all the reporting action is up in central London, as
Twitter as a Backchannel Paid Members Public
I’m 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]‘s use of Twitter as a back-channel during the Enterprise 2.0 panel. The technology
NUJ: Response from a Union Official Paid Members Public
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 member’s post which stated that the member hadn’t come across any journalist who don’t believe that good journalism can happen online, and that
The NUJ, Social Media and Video Conversation Paid Members Public
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 you’ve got a webcam, you can join in [http://seesmic.com/videos/DdZC1OmJRA].
NUJ: Still Not "Getting" Social Media Paid Members Public
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
