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Social media for journalists is like The Generation game

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)http://youtu.be/EO0c03Y5Bjg This week (as a earlier post suggests) I’ve been kicking off teaching with a look at social media and how journos can use it to create a presence. That presence isn’t just about

facebook

Pages of pages: Journalists and (self)promotion

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![promotion](https://i1.wp.com/farm9.static.flickr.com/8162/7420240204_264dca1e0a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180 "promotion")](http://www.flickr.com/photos/38845206@N03/7420240204)Shouting about yourself on Wikipedia is not big or clever (Photo credit: Platform4)

@jonathanhaynes

News sites should be Islands in the stream

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)> Islands in the stream > That is what we are > No one in-between > How can we be wrong Dolly Parton! Well, actually the BeeGees (well if we are being really pedantic Hemingway). What the hell is that about Andy! Well,

Taxing community engagement and other thoughts from the BBC's connecting communities conf.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent the day at sunny media city in Salford for the [BBC College of Journalism’s connecting communities conference](http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2012/05/connecting-communities-conference-24-may.shtml) ( [#BBCscc12](https://twitter.com/search/%23BBCScc12)). I had

Journalism is not shorthand for defunct thinking.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent the last two days [in a room with lots of arts and humanities academic](http://thecreativeexchange.org/)s at the Creative Exchange, talking about the digital public space(DSP). There was a great talk from BBC archive

journalism

Journalism is not a profession, it's a diagnosis.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://i0.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ward.jpg?resize=446%2C446 "ward")](https://i0.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ward.jpg)Conditions for the subs had improved considerablyThinking about Journalism

What kind of person is journalism?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![Guess Who?](https://i1.wp.com/farm4.staticflickr.com/3197/2398625902_7c1104c668.jpg?resize=375%2C500) ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/unloveable/2398625902/ "Guess Who? by unloveablesteve, on Flickr") For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve

Intelligent design or natural selection - Three little pigs and the church of open journalism

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)***Is the new Guardian view of journalism really what people want*** ***?*** The Guardian’s Three little pigs ad campaign is getting a lot of press at the moment.It makes me feel a little uncomforatble if I’m honest.

arab spring

The responsibilities of the journalist in the internet age.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)**This the text from my lecture to the undergrad and post grad journalism students for their Ethics module this week. It’s slightly amended to:** **make sense ** stop me from getting punched in the face if I ever meet

In praise of Digital Editors

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)![](https://i1.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2903662286_e906fc5c2e.jpg?resize=450%2C310 "2903662286_e906fc5c2e")Sitting on a goldmine? (picture from Flickr)I’m in sunny London tomorrow to sit on a panel talking digital

BBC

Ivory tower dispatch: A tale of two websites

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Across a number of classes this week, two websites have stood out. To start the week I had this from China Daily.com Shoddy! Which thesaurus did they drag that one up from! This was paydirt for me as

regulation

Suns warning to regulators...

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)![](https://i2.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/new-sun-392x500.jpg?resize=392%2C500 "new-sun") Sitting through a talk on the regulation of the press and then coming home to see the Sun’s front cover for

Don't charge for the magazine charge for the ink!

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)> “Our work with Condé Nast creates a new channel for customers to access the content they want from some of their favorite publications,” said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president, Inkjet and Web Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “And,

j-school

Ivory tower dispatch: RSS is like twitter.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Like others in J-school I’m getting to know new classes, spending a bit of time talking about the ‘gathering’ part of journalism and how digital tools can help. So yesterday I bullied my class of postgrads through, among

Fleetstreetblues

Do we need a journalism merit badge?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) So Ivan Lewis has suggested that journalists who ‘break the rules’ should be struck off. A move which, as FleetStreetBlues blogs: ..by implication, that there should be some kind of register or licence for all journalists A license might

data journalism

Fusion tables and maps: Post office map revisited

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A few years ago I wrote a post about *[mapping post office closures using google maps and yahoo pipes](http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/02/29/maps-spreadsheets-yahoo-pipes-and-post-offices/)*. I used that combination because of an issue with google maps and

awards

Daily mail student media awards?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Yeah, wouldn’t happen. But should it? The always interesting Wannabehacks posted yesterday stating that The industry isn’t doing enough to support student journalists. The post really should have been titled The Guardian isn’t doing enough to

FT

Newspaper video: Time to reconsider your video strategy?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A few issues have popped up in my reading round the web that make me think that **if online video has fallen off your agenda then it may be worth thinking again**. A few things make me think that.

Visible not critical: What next journalism?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I read a few interesting posts over the last few days. The first was [I’m Glad We Didn’t Have Facebook or Twitter on 9/11](http://www.good.is/post/i-m-glad-we-didn-t-have-facebook-or-twitter-on-9-11/). That’s the real problem with

BBC

BBC Social media guidelines updated.

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)The [BBC editors site](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/07/bbc_social_media_guidance.html) has a post on the update to the [BBC’s social media guidelines for journalists](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/

NCE: training the lowest common denominator?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Right, [this press gazette article](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47752&c=1) then. Editors involved in a review of the National Council for Training of Journalists’ NCE qualification for senior journalists have urged

@newsmary

Twitter: the emergency broadcast system and the journalist

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)As you may imagine [after yesterdays post](http://www.andydickinson.net/2011/08/09/mea-culpa-no-news-is-news-on-twitter/), I’ve given a lot of thought to how journalists use twitter. Id been thinking about blogging a couple of key points to consider

Mea Culpa: No news is news on twitter

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent a lot of time watching twitter last night. Watching the dynamics of tweets about the riots – the reports, the reaction and the rumours. I retweeted a few things but tried to avoid directly tweeting. I had an

WPHMI: Help me investigate for wordpress

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![](https://i0.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/screen-500x443.jpg?resize=500%2C443 "screen")](http://www.andydickinson.net/wphmi-help-me-investigate-for-wordpress/)WPHMI - Help me investigate for your blogA little while back I had an email from Paul

Community journalism or "Local nosey parkers with mobile phones "

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! What’s that Andy? It’s me banging my head against the desk… There’s a story about the Beskpoke project on Hold the front page. I was interested in it as (full disclosure)

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