Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Reading Maria Purdy Young's take on UGC (Citizen Journalism: Something for Nothing Won't Last Long) recently I remembered Bild's 2008 intiative to pebbledash basic digital cameras around it's potential audience, to try and boost the photographic network. According to Bild's picture editor the newspaper now receives something like 4,000 photographs a day, and has led to nearly 1,000... Continue Reading →
There have been several social media conferences recently where, from hashtag evidence, person after person stood up and urged listeners to "go where the conversation is", "be part of the conversation" and "if your brand isn't engaging on Facebook, ask yourself if YOU aren't engaging on Facebook".Which is all very right (although possibly repetitive) but... Continue Reading →
Image via WikipediaWalesOnline has joined the Pinterest revolution - or leapt on the bandwagon depending on your point of view - and it's early days (and invite-only) but the prospects for good social sharing and driving traffic through specific curation activities are looking pretty bright.Pinterest has become very fashionable in recent weeks with 2.2m users... Continue Reading →
Image: WikipediaIt's not exactly a raging controversy, but there are decided opinions held on whether news organisations should schedule their tweets. It makes a huge difference when someone writes a tweet as opposed to a bot spitting out a link - the colour, interaction, nuances are quite different, but you can't hover over a keyboard promoting... Continue Reading →
Pic: Derek Backen via FlickrA few years ago I gave a talk to FACT Liverpool's Art of Digital conference called Identity 2.0 considering how we try to comport ourselves online (professionally and otherwise) compared with our true selves; how, sometimes, the divisions become blurred, and this sends mixed-messages about who and what we are. I remembered that talk... Continue Reading →
I spent most of today with the Leveson inquiry livestream playing in one of my tabs, listening if not watching, as the regional editors gave evidence. These were the ones I was really interested in hearing from - the Dacres and Hardings may make better copy but regional media is where I play and I wanted... Continue Reading →
So this morning brought a "We've been hacked!" email from CoveritLive with the assurance " We regret any inconvenience that this password change process may cause you". Frankly, an enforced password change is a small price to pay... hopefully that's the full extent of it.From: CoveritLive Date: 14 January 2012 01:22Subject: Important CoveritLive Password NotificationCoveritLive recently... Continue Reading →
Image via WikipediaJon Mitchell has had a rant here on ReadWriteWeb about Google+ and its many (in his view) shortcomings. I still don't find Google+ compelling enough to be able to engage in that debate, but I was interested to see one poster's view in the comments included this salvo: As for jumping through hoops, having... Continue Reading →
From a link tweeted by Kevin Anderson this morning I wound up at a new-to-me blog by John L Robinson called Media, Disrupted.Sometimes it feels like I work in Sesame Street - Journalism today is brought to you by the letters D and C... Disruption, Data, Distribution, and Curation, Collaboration, Content - so a blog... Continue Reading →
In its article A Microsoft Horror Story: Newspaper Chain Is Switching 8,500 Employees To Google Apps Business Insider says "this isn't the case of a small business switching from some legacy email system to Gmail while maintaining a huge Microsoft contract for Office and other products. This is a big company that seems anxious to... Continue Reading →
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