Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Here’s something that put a smile on my face today (no, not the drink drive mum) - it's a Manchester Evening News Instant Article on Facebook. The MEN and WalesOnline are the two Trinity Mirror regional sites signed up for the UK Instant Articles roll out (announced today) - The Mirror is also participating. The only... Continue Reading →
March 27 and 28 were spent immersed in the world of mobile, journalism, storytelling and content creation, courtesy of the first Mobile Journalism Conference held in Dublin and organised by broadcaster RTÉ. It was the most rewarding, packed and inspiring event - filled with incredible journalists and storytellers doing wonderful things, often armed with just... Continue Reading →
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/200471527-001 So, Meerkat, eh? It was, by all accounts, the darling of SXSW and digital acres have been given over to assessing its worth (and here I am, adding to them). Search Twitter at any given time and it's everywhere, being [LIVE NOW]... Tweets about [live now] meerkat // I downloaded it a few weeks ago when... Continue Reading →
Update: Some more cropping tools. This one, which is - I think - called Favicon Generator, was suggested by @ourman and Twitshot by @xxnapoleonsolo. Thanks chaps. When it comes to critiquing others' work, I am very much of the 'there but for the grace of God...' school of thought. I'm fairly sure, for example, there are enough spelling... Continue Reading →
Not 100% sure who I owe a hat tip to for tweeting a link to this infographic about social media monitoring (I suspect David Thackeray though).It is exceptionally useful, anyway, and I thought I would store it on my blog as it's a reference source I will probably come back to in the future. The World of Social... Continue Reading →
(Photo credit: estherbester)I ran my first Webex training session this week; it was a 45 minute run-through of How To Be a Tweetdeck Ninja, which contained my tips for getting the most out of Facebook. Ahem.I've used Tweetdeck for years and I like the Chrome extension very much - I personally find Tweetdeck the desktop tool for Twitter... Continue Reading →
Chartbeat is an amazing tool. Compelling even. Today, watching the real time traffic on our site, it was obvious people were consuming the 'live' news on the site more than anything else. Visitors were following updated story of the 'locus in quo' jury visit to Machynlleth as the April Jones murder trial continued, the live coverage... Continue Reading →
WalesOnline's Pinterest presence has been steadily growing in the two months since we set it up, with 16 boards now covering everything from music to sport and interior design. It's a great resource and we've hooked it up to Facebook and Twitter to enable cross-promotion of what we're up to, so as an experiment I'm happy... 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 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 →
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