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your help needed – mobile blogging uni lecture

10th March 2009Robin Hamman 1 Comment

This Thursday, and next Tuesday, I’m going to be doing a series of lectures and workshops with my City University MA Journalism students on using mobiles to capture and share content. In preparation, I’m seeking some editorial and technical help… Continue Reading →

blogging techniques, journalism, mobile

good presentation slides on “micro-sociology of networks”

6th March 2009Robin Hamman

David Armano, VP of Experience Design at Critical Mass has posted the slides from a presentation on the “Micro-sociology of Networks” he’ll be giving at The Parsons School for Design: The Micro-Sociology of Networks View more presentations from David Armano.… Continue Reading →

social software

conferences this week: dna2009 and social media influence

5th March 2009Robin Hamman

It appears that conference season has begun. On Tuesday I moderated a panel about using social media to have "difficult conversations at Social Media Influence in London with panelists Headshift's Lee Bryant (my boss), Andy Hobsbawm from Agency.com and Paolo… Continue Reading →

BBC, blogging techniques, citizen journalism, conferences/events, headshift, journalism, mobile, newspapers, social software

three conferences i’ll be at in early march

11th February 2009Robin Hamman 1 Comment

I'm taking part in a panel discussion about Twitter at DNA2009, being held in Brussels on the 4th and 5th of March 2009. I enjoyed it last year and there are, for me at least, some even more interesting people… Continue Reading →

conferences/events, headshift, journalism

a great presentation about using twitter

30th January 2009Robin Hamman

Thanks to Monty.de, I stumbled across this simple, well though out presentation about Twitter by @minxuan: How Twitter Changed My Life View more Minxuan Lee. (tags: live casting)

blogging techniques

twitter: more than just a fount of free drinks

23rd January 2009Robin Hamman

Over the years I reckon I've tried hundreds of social networking sites, blogging and micro-blogging tools, online participatory spaces, and content sharing services. In most instances I register, set up a profile, have a look around, and abandon all in… Continue Reading →

blogging techniques, headshift, journalism, social software

massive increase in twitter use good for news websites

22nd January 2009Robin Hamman 1 Comment

UK internet measurement agency Hitwise recently announced that Twitter's traffic has increased a staggering 1000% over the past year and now exceeds that to Digg. The Hitwise report reveals something far more interesting, in my mind at least – the… Continue Reading →

BBC, blogging techniques, journalism, newspapers, social software

using twitter as a human filtered content feed

16th January 2009Robin Hamman 5 Comments

Much has been made of twitter as a tool for finding eyewitness accounts and tracking discussion of breaking news and yesterday's airplane crash in the Hudson River was just one of a growing number of instances – along with earthquakes,… Continue Reading →

blogging techniques, journalism, social software

Video Interview from Dubai

13th January 2009Robin Hamman

At last month’s New Media Event in Dubai I was interviewed by NewzMakerz, which describes itself as “an online broadcast platform with a focus on enhancing business and economic ties between the Middle East and the rest of the world.”

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trendsspotting’s social media influencers predictions for 2009

5th January 2009Robin Hamman 3 Comments

Last December, in a guest post I wrote over on the Telegraph's Technology Blog, I gave some of my own predictions of social media trends I think we'll see in 2009. Along a similar line, Trendspotting has shared an interesting… Continue Reading →

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I’ve been blogging here since 1995.

For two decades, I’ve been devising and implementing strategic digital and social media programmes for some of the World’s largest brands.

I teach Public Relations at Boston University, London and regularly undertake strategy engagements on a contract basis. I’m also studying for an MA in Documentary Photography at University of the Arts London (UAL) part-time.

Previous roles include Partner at Penta Group (formerly Hume Brophy); Senior Consultant at Battenhall; EMEA Director of Creative Strategy, Digital and Social Media at FleishmanHillard; European Managing Director at The Dachis Group; Director of Digital at Edelman; and Editor of the BBC Blogs.

I’ve also been a Visiting Fellow of Journalism at City University (London) and of Stanford’s Cyberlaw Program.

I hold an MA in Sociology, MPhil in Communication Studies and Pg Dip in Law.

 

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