Posted Sunday March 9, 2008, 2:08 pm, Over one day old
After months of planning, it is hard to believe that the EuroBlog2008 Symposium begins on Thursday! We have just posted the final programme on the EuroBlog site and it looks pretty impressive! Personally, I am very much looking forward to...
Read EuroBlog2008: Four days to go (Links)
Posted Wednesday February 20, 2008, 12:34 pm, Over one day old
An obvious question for people taking my Intro to Weblogs module is "Why blog?" The obvious answer from my perspective is "Because you get more out of it than you put in." In PR Strategy we are looking at persuasion,...
Read Why blog? Self-interest as motivation... (Links)
Posted Thursday April 3, 2008, 11:51 am, Over one day old
If pressed very hard I might admit to having friends who Twitter but I remain fairly resistant. OK, I use Facebook updates mainly to tell students where I am (and to grumble, of course) but as I am not great...
Read Constructive Twittering? (Links)
Posted Monday February 18, 2008, 10:48 am, Over one day old
Is this man..... A. A buffoon pretending to be a politician? B. A politician pretending to be a buffoon? C. One of the great communicators of our age, deserving of the CIPR President's Medal? Some people will go for A,...
Read It's an honour, Boris (Links)
Posted Monday February 18, 2008, 10:48 am, Over one day old
I was fascinated by Paul Bradshaw's Googlemap of the Online Journalism community so I have have done the same for EuroBlog 2008. View Larger Map
Read Mapping the EuroBlog community (Links)
Posted Monday February 18, 2008, 10:48 am, Over one day old
I have just tried to download a useful sounding programme - from a link in a novel. Unfortunately for me it turns out to be for Macs only and I have a PC. Here's the quote, from a rather good...
Read Product placement? (Links)
Posted Monday February 18, 2008, 10:48 am, Over one day old
Thanks to Penguin, I am reading an uncorrected proof copy of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, which will be one of the most compelling and influential social media books of the year. The improbably named Clay...
Read Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky (Links)
Posted Thursday May 29, 2008, 10:39 am, Over one day old
Read European Communication Monitor 2008 (Links)
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2008, 10:50 am, Over one day old
EuroBlog has come and gone. And it is the gone that I am thinking about... Three packed days, old friends and new faces, some fascinating presentations and many stimulating conversations. As expected, almost every element of the Brussels Symposium highlighted...
Read EuroBlog: Twitter vs Reflection (Links)
Posted Monday May 12, 2008, 8:52 am, Over one day old
Nick Davies seemed to surprise a few people with a scathing critique of modern journalism which he characterised as Flat Earth News. Certainly he highlighted some pretty shabby practices in a curate's egg of a book - one minute I...
Read Trust and Flat Earth News (Links)