Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
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 →
Now I’ve moved from Liverpool I miss the social meets a lot. Things like Ignite Liverpool, tweetups, Twestival, TEDxLiverpool, and Social Media Cafe turned online mates into real life friends and it was great.Plus, there’s a kind of comfort in walking into a room and knowing you’re among people who can recognise any given Last... Continue Reading →
How do you turn a newspaper inside out? That's been the question bugging me for about a week and I've found myself thinking about it more and more in the context of the Register Citizen Open Newsroom project.I broached the subject with Glyn Mottershead and Neil MacDonald over a pint recently; this is how it unfolded.Me:... Continue Reading →
How do you moderate a community on Facebook? Should the same policy exist as for a title's website moderation or do the disparate fans and friends it has there require different handling?I use Facebook for content, for sharing information, for instant polls, news gathering and just taking the temperature of the public mood on an... Continue Reading →
Sometimes a picture (or three) is worth a thousand words...First we have this...Followed by this...And finally, courtesy of a quick Google search covering the last two working days, this... Sometimes it's convenient to wrap up the big numbers for a headline (and the bigger the number, the better the headline, right?) but the fact is... Continue Reading →
Back in October I wrote a guest blog post for Glyn Mottishead's online and mobile journalism blog for his students, about how site searches could be a useful tool for journalists, I found the draft post again in my Google Docs the other day and thought, since some things had moved on since that was... Continue Reading →
I found this from the New York Times interesting not just because of the high levels of engagement that it led to, but also because readers were actively comparing the respective results, as well as the data they had used to reach their conclusions.The idea of data never really coming to an end - once... Continue Reading →
Image via WikipediaThis hasn't been the most updated blog recently but that's because, for a while, I found myself doing two jobs. I'm back doing just the one now but it's a bit different to what I've been doing for the past two years. To start with it left me somewhat mentally taxed, and not... Continue Reading →
Trying to second-guess what a newspaper's online audience wants from its website is a tricky business. Apart from those who come to our sites for information there are huge numbers there purely for commercial services, and who find our sites through searches, not unflagging loyalty. The second most viewed news article on the Echo site... Continue Reading →
In my reporting and newsdesking days I sometimes got asked by a caller ringing in with a tale if there was any hope of us paying for the information. In the regionals I've worked on, we never paid for information although if the story was likely to sell, and good enough, we'd help arrange syndication... Continue Reading →
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