In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a lecture at City University, where I'm a Visiting Journalism Fellow, on Entrepreneurial Journalism. My intention isn't to offer any answers, just point out some opportunities to a group of 100 MA… Continue Reading
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm heading to Australia in March to participate in a number of events organised by my colleagues at Headshift Australasia. It would be great to meet some of you there so if you… Continue Reading
NBC News Twitter Monitoring Drives Visual NavigationOriginally uploaded by robinhamman This is pretty clever, although I'm told also simple to achieve. NBC is monitoring twitter for a predefined set of Olympics related keywords. It scans twitter for those terms, tallies… Continue Reading
Bloggers need to know where their blog sits within the “conversation”, which is why monitoring other blogs, social networking services, and regularly checking inbound stats is so important. At Headshift, I’ve been involved in a number of projects involving social… Continue Reading
The Daily Mirror has joined a growing number of newspapers who block a news aggregator, NewsNow, from crawling it's site. The Sun and Times Online had already made similar moves. Having worked in the media industry myself for nearly ten… Continue Reading
I'm frequently asked, by our clients as well as the MA Journalism students I occasionally teach as part of my role as a Visiting Journalism Fellow at City University, for tips on how to get started blogging. As someone who… Continue Reading
Today I'll be giving a short presentation as part of my participation in a panel on social media at News:Rewired, an event organised by Journalism.co.uk and being held at City University, where I'm a Visiting Journalism Fellow. That is, if… Continue Reading
Just came across this interesting presentation, from October last year, by Neil Perkin, "Director of Marketing & Strategy for the commercial functions of IPC Media, the well known UK publisher of consumer magazines and associated websites": Content And Community View… Continue Reading
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make… Continue Reading
My presentation, which discusses the technique of going beyond social media monitoring by acknowledging, engaging and involving customers and audiences, from Online Information ’09: Beyond Social Media Monitoring View more presentations from Robin Hamman.