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Category Archives: Social Media

Experimenting with Google+ hangouts – live, interactive broadcast conversations

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Tweet Spending time on Google+ is sometimes a lonely thing. It’s the one-handed clap of the social media platforms. But it has 170 million users who have “upgraded” their Google accounts and countless millions who may yet do so. But the potential for it as a platform is vast and there are good reasons professional and [...]

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Thoughts on LinkedIn groups for media brands

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Tweet LinkedIn has certainly grown in importance for me in the past year since TheMediaBriefing.com started. We run a group now running at just under 500 members and it’s been very rewarding to have started some interesting discussions, that have fed into and inspired articles on TMB and hopefully proved useful to people in our community. [...]

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BBC Social Media Summit: Newsrooms need a mix of skills and cultures #bbcsms

Friday, May 20, 2011

Tweet In this digital media, journalism and always-on bubble that we live in – if you’re reading this blog you’re probably in that category – we are weird. Speaking at the BBC’s Social Media Summit on Friday at White City (or “White Stadt” as Google Maps puzzlingly and Germanically translates it) BBC Global News head [...]

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What I learned about Twitter and journalism in 2010 – tips and advice from a compulsive tweeter

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Tweet I was very pleased and grateful to be included – for the second year running – in Journalism.co.uk’s top five tweeters of the year. It’s a always good to be recognised like that but the real buzz from Twitter is having and keeping more than 3,000 followers and carrying on the conversation, link-sharing and [...]

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Are your tweets endorsed by your employer?

Friday, October 29, 2010

Tweet Image via CrunchBase Some things just brighten your day. On Twitter this morning I mused – not for the first time – that those silly disclaimers people put in their Twitter profiles to distance their views from their employer are not worth the bytes they’re not printed on. Invariably, people in public-facing roles write [...]

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Blog to get a job in journalism: build a community, promote yourself and get networking

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tweet How do you get a job in journalism? Get a blog. Well, it may certainly help you, but I’ve just seen a panel of speakers at City University and that’s what they said. Josh Halliday, Dave Lee and Conrad Quilty-Harper told a room of students how they found gainful employment in journalism through their [...]

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Delicious links: Should they stay or go?

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tweet Image via CrunchBase Being a busy person, with (thankfully) multiple clients and places to be, I don’t update this site as often as I’d like. I find time to write at least one substantive post a week and I write about the events and major things I attend, as a rule. Like lots of [...]

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