For my piece this week over at the Press Gazette, I’ve made the case for using Twitter’s Vine, the app that let’s you film and upload six-second video clips that play on a loop. Why would you want to do…
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Mastering social media: a reader
Hardly an exhaustive list but some useful sources, background and inspiration below: Statistics How many people use top social media, apps and services? The 7 most interesting social media studies and what to learn from them By The Numbers:…
Tagged with: Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Social media
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Social media
How to use Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform but it isn’t WordPress. If that feels like a distinction so minor that it’s not worth making, I do think the differences between the two platforms, however small, do matter. Tumblr tends to be more…
Tagged with: The Times, New Statesman, Financial Times, Tumblr, The Economist
Posted in Newspapers, Blogging, Social media, Magazines, Digital strategy
Posted in Newspapers, Blogging, Social media, Magazines, Digital strategy
Apple’s iPhone and the production, distribution and consumption of news
Earlier this week, I was asked the following five questions by a student researching the impact of smart devices, particularly the iPhone, on news. 1. Why did people start reading news on mobile devices? And when? 2. How has the…
Tagged with: Financial Times, iPhone, smartphones, The Guardian
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Smartphones, Social media, Tablets
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Smartphones, Social media, Tablets
How to Blog . . . For reputation, profile and reach
On Friday 24 May I’m running a full-day training workshop at the Frontline Club on social media — broadly, How to Tweet and How to Blog. Here’s an extract from the agenda for the blogging section of the day: How to Blog . . . For reputation, profile…
“Twitter is about leading people to water”
Another day, another former colleague… or two. Yesterday I quoted my old boss at the New Statesman. Today it’s Jon Snow, Channel 4 News presenter and Charlie Beckett who now runs Polis at the London School of Economics and was…
How to Tweet: a social media primer
Late next month (24 May) I’m running a full-day training workshop at the Frontline Club on social media — broadly, How to Tweet and How to Blog. Here’s an extract from the blurb: How to Tweet: a social media primer This…
Twitter complements, supplements and enhances newsgathering. Not bad for 140 characters.
I’ve put together some thoughts on the impact social media can have on conventional newsgathering over at the Press Gazette. Using an example from my days working at Channel 4 News and drawing on an interesting post by Austrian radio…
Ian Hislop: “Twitter creates clouds of viral ignorance”
From an interview with the Private Eye editor in Vice Magazine…. On the bad and good of Twitter The bad side is in this country, where it creates clouds of viral ignorance that swoop around picking the wrong targets and…
The paradox of sharing: the more you give it away, the more they’ll pay
Craig Mod’s subcompact publishing manifesto is worth reading in full but I’ve picked out the following because it goes to the heart of a paradox of online publishing which I suspect is true but have yet to see any data…
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