Brand Republic, a stand-alone media and advertising industry news site owned by haymarket , and which also provides an online home for Campaign and Marketing magazines, is looking for a community editor: This new role will give someone the opportunity… Continue Reading
Reuters recent investment of USD $7 million in blog syndication service Pluck is already bearing fruit, with the launch of “related postings” from blogs appearing alongside (actually at the bottom of) Reuters own Health, Technology and Entertainment content. Dean Wright,… Continue Reading
BBC’s Today Programme uses it’s blog to explain changes to it’s message board community A good example of how a corporate blog can make it easier to engage with audiences, even if they are disgruntled ones (tags: bbc bbcblogs onlinecommunitymanagement… Continue Reading
Two very different views of future for newspapers: from the Observer and the Independent (tags: independent guardian newspapers newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites news2.0) Is myspace the next marketing frontier for magazines? Dozens of magazines have set up profiles on myspace in an… Continue Reading
This morning I stumbled across the following post by Derek Powazek, who wrote Design for Communities a few years ago, describing the three communities important to magazines: those involved in creating the magazine, the readers, and the advertisers – “Magazines… Continue Reading
My blogs got me a job at BBC Originally uploaded by robinhamman. No, not me. I already had a job at the BBC before I had a blog. The London freesheet Metro carried a short snippet on Friday the 17th… Continue Reading
Biving’s take on the ‘What is the Value of Newspaper Blogs?’ debate Includes a link to Malcolm Gladwell and suggests he has a model for blogging where page impressions and unique users aren’t the only measurements of success (tags: bivings… Continue Reading
Like most bloggers, I use technorati to keep track of the cross-blog conversations I’m part of. I’ve always found it a really useful tool and even once wrote a post with 8 suggestions on how to improve technorati. Recently, however,… Continue Reading
Sun man says local broadcasters fail to embrace communities and give them a forum As opposed, of course, to the Sun which kicks off all sorts of wholesome debates about topics ranging from the breast sizes of various glamour models,… Continue Reading
Visualising Crowds Using Tag Maps The good people at Yahoo research have posted the slides for a presentation about using flickr tags to visualise crowds – Stanley Milgram would be proud (tags: crowds flickr tags tagging maps mashup research yahoo)… Continue Reading