Me and My Blogs in the Manchester Evening News Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Last Thursday the Manchester Evening News carried a full page article about blogging. As the article points out, Manchester is emerging as one of the UK’s key… Continue Reading
Thursday 9:21 am 3/1/07 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. I spent most of yesterday at a “social media consensus” workshop at the British Library. The group included people working with social media from a range of organisations including Microsoft, Channel 4,… Continue Reading
Regular readers will know that I’m involved in a project, the BBC Manchester Blog, that I think provides an interesting and sustainable model for news and media companies wishing to engage with “user generated content” – the stuff that people… Continue Reading
Tomorrow I’ll be giving a presentation about blogging to a group of radio producers and executives. I reckon some of them might still be of the persuasion that blogs are simply “web based diaries” and want to do something that… Continue Reading
The campaign website for American Democratic Presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, has pulled out all the stops to embrace social software. From the main index, visitors can join the site and create a profile which they can then use to… Continue Reading
The Journalist’s Blogroll Originally uploaded by martinstabe. My technorati rank might be in freefall as my work life increasingly gets in the way of my blogging, but Graham Holliday still saw fit to include me in his feature about UK… Continue Reading
Tom Loosemoore, who is heading up the BBC 2.0 project, a project to rethink, modernise and – hopefully – futureproof the BBC’s online offerings, has posted a list of the BBC’s 15 Web Principles. I was involved in (a minute… Continue Reading
Over the past few months, I’ve recorded a number of interviews for BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs. For those who have never dabbled in conducting an audio interview, it really is quite fun to walk up to people and… Continue Reading
The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships for journalists to attend this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing. Participants receive six days… Continue Reading
I was reading a free issue of O’Reilly’s Make magazine that I got at the BBC Backstage Christmas party and came across this gem of a quote that I’m probably going to use at every blogging talk I give over… Continue Reading