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Enabling the social shift from the centre of the flow
Over the past couple of months, I've spent a lot of time speaking with, and running training courses for, people in the PR and marketing industries. Their roles are changing because customer expectations are shifting - consumers, constituents, audiences and... read full post
Society of the Technical: the common ground between art and social media
So, the first project I've been put to work on since starting at Headshift six weeks ago was the site for Anthony Gormley's One and Other project - a pretty massive undertaking that aims to put 2400 people on... read full post
The future of the media is social
In addition to doing strategic social media consulting, workshops and training days for clients, I've recently had the pleasure of teaching on several of the postgraduate courses offered by the College of Journalism at City University London where I'm a... read full post
One conference, two conference, three conference...
Over the past week, I've spent more time at conferences than at Headshift Towers. Last Tuesday was Social Media Influence where Headshift sponsored, and I moderated, a panel on "Having Difficult Conversations". On the panel were our friends Paolo Valdemarin... read full post
Guardian Hack Day #1
Last Thursday and Friday, I was very lucky to be invited to the Guardian's first internal hack day. Whilst it was primarily an internal event, they also invited along a few of their friends to see what we could do with some of their information. read full post
Maybe journalism is not quite dead yet
Two good examples this week of the strength of conventional journalism and the weaknesses of citizen journalism read full post
Headshift at International Broadcasting Conference (IBC2008)
Over the past few months, I've been helping to organise a panel on Social Media and Broadcasting for the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam.BBC Radio 4 Journalist Chris Vallance (iPM) and Yahoo Europe's VP of Search & Social Media,... read full post
Headshift at PR Newswire's Meet the Media
PR and media professionals have, until recently, been able to leverage their control over, or access to, scarce communication channels to ensure that the messages which flowed over them spread outwardly, in a one-way trajectory.Social media, which gives just about... read full post
Can newspaper social media sites continue to thrive alongside a strong public service broadcaster?
There has been a lot of very useful debate recently about the BBC's role in the UK media market, but I think the healthy and innovative position of major newspapers suggests they are not under threat from a strong BBC read full post
Twitter scepticism: justified or not?
Am I right to have a slightly sceptical view of the value of Twitter to most people? Maybe I should give it a try... read full post
Simple, commodity tools for public consultation
Good example of a simple, cheap consultation web site from Ofcom read full post
Visualising comments in a sensitive debate
Max Gadney writes about a new debate visualisation tool being used by the BBC as pat of its White season. read full post
"Old media" can be innovative too
There are some smart people inside so-called old media companies who might yet surprise us with the innovation they can deliver around existing audiences read full post
Good uses for the interweb: overcoming our ignorance of Iran
Two online initiatives to improve our understanding of Iran read full post
/Message: Social Media and Public Relations: The Press Release Is Dead
Stowe Boyd on the Social Media Press Release. Sigh. read full post
Event Summary: BBC New Media Central Presentations at AIGA London
BBC New Media Central (NMC) is one of the biggest design research and development centres in the UK working across all digital media. Nico McDonald from AIGA London organized an event at the Design Council last Wednesday to introduce the work of NMC. read full post
Gleaning, Exchanging and Vernacular Media
Review of MIT Press publication "New Media: 1740-1915", looking at the social effects of various 'new' media from history... read full post
Using IT to assist threatened communities
Running Man use technology to support media engagements with threatened and indigenous communities around the world to stimulate debate about their plight (via the Guardian) read full post
