I’m going to be speaking at quite a few conferences and events over the next few months. Do drop me a note if you’re speaking at or planning to attend one of these: 17 April – BBC World Service, Spanish… Continue Reading
Here’s a couple of twitter applications which could be useful for those working in journalism or broadcasting: PollDaddy makes it easy to create and run multiple choice polls on twitter. To use it you simply author a question, set up… Continue Reading
As part of the BBC’s White Season, a week of programmes on BBC2 as well as other BBC TV and Radio outlets, BBC News online hosted an online discussion asking if "white working class people [are] ignored in Britain?" The… Continue Reading
Loic Lemeur discusses the different social media services and tools he uses as he takes us on a tour of his social map: Spotted thanks to Adam Tinworth who has a rather good blog covering journalism and social media.
The other day I met with some work colleagues to discuss their proposal for a new blog related to a weekly regional television programme. When the hour was over they left not with a well formed blog proposal but with… Continue Reading
Cross-posting is useful where it genuinely adds value but sometimes it’s just plain spammy. That, at least, is the conclusion I’ve drawn on the use of automated cross-posting to and from blogs and social networking services. For the past month… Continue Reading
Social media isn’t something you add to a website, it’s something you do. When I look back over the social media projects I’ve been involved in over the years, it’s obvious that the key variable upon which success, or failure,… Continue Reading
Click to Play A few days ago, Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s Technology Correspondent, asked on his blog: "What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own live television station from a mobile phone?" I guess the answer is, things… Continue Reading
As part of a new occasional feature, Journalism.co.uk has set out to interview people working at the collision of journalism and social media. This week they cornered me and asked about my role at the BBC, which social media tools… Continue Reading
Lee and Sachi at CommonCraft have probably, through their wonderfully simple video explantations, introduced more people to Social Bookmarking and RSS than anyone. Now they’ve done their magic with Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows users to "share short, bite-sized… Continue Reading