Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Talk about making your own headlines! It's true; the deputy business editor of the Post & Echo was caught in crossfire this weekend and - like the news trouper he is - tweeted what was happening to him, from the ambulance.In a nutshell, (teetotal) Tony McDonough was unfortunate enough to be downing a diet Coke... Continue Reading →
Twitter, is an integral part of my job as a journalist. So it was something of a surprise to learn this week there are still some journalism colleges that don't show its potential benefits to their students.I was talking to some J-students this week about how newspapers and journalists can use Twitter when one of... Continue Reading →
I've found my Twitter followers are growing quite rapidly recently, probably as connectors such as Mr Tweet and Twellow become more widely used.I follow quite of lot of them back (unless they only update via an automatic feed telling Twitter they've blogged) as I like having a widening conversation circle - but there are a... Continue Reading →
Sometimes it's easier to let others to make the choice. When it came to deciding whether my little devil avatar was actually something I was hiding behind, rather than being my online representative, I turned to the people. The Ask500people specifically; the poll was a simple Yes/No question: Do you prefer it if someone uses... Continue Reading →
This little devil has been my online representative for a year now He and I formed an allience on the day I joined Twitter, courtesy of a Markmedia lesson in social media at Uclan, and decided I wanted a cute avatar instead of the default 
brown square Twitter gives you.Now he's my avatar on... Continue Reading →
The nice thing about my Tweet Cloud - as far as I'm concerned - is that my friends are in the biggest type, which makes them my most frequent and important tweets. That's how it should be...
Honestly... sometimes I do think that I should just follow the Daily Mail and write blog posts that tell how Britney Spears is launching a new line in panties which Paris Hilton is going to model.Yes, in the wonderful world of SEO the three above phrases picked out in bold would almost guarantee a good... Continue Reading →
Just a quick example of why I like Plurk. I took this photo when I was trapped in stationary traffic on my morning commute. The whole package - rain, cones and queues - summed up what a great start to the day I was having. The Shozu app on my N95 automatically sent the photo... Continue Reading →
I grew up with hot metal; visiting my mother's workplace as a youngster was a cue for ink-stained men to start shouting at me to 'mind yer fingers' and to keep away from the hot wax. Of the eight papers I've worked for, six had presses rumbling away deep in the heart of their buildings.... Continue Reading →
It's six months this week since I started spreading myself over the internet's social sites in an attempt to shift my analogue brain up a gear.I came home from a TM Leaders course last January shocked by my ignorance of Web 2.0 opportunities, and determined to do something about it. It started as a mild... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 