Ideas Why can't I tag my followers in Tweetdeck? I was chatting to a @clarecook this morning – office mate and all round planet brain – and we got onto the subject of how we use Twitter to find people. Clare noted that often she will follow people based on a conference or event that
journalism Argentina's Clarín gets to grip with convergence : exploring multilingual social media The wonders of Twitter, tweetdeck and google translate meant that I got an interesting insight into the way Clarín, the biggest newspaper in Argentina, is approaching the challenge of a converged newsroom. What caught my eye was a the visualization of the ‘new editorial
facebook Pages of pages: Journalists and (self)promotion [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](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,
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
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/
@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
@ReallyVirtual Why the man who tweeted Osama bin Laden raid is a citizen journalist (but why he might not care) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)There of interest in [@ReallyVirtual](http://twitter.com/#%21/ReallyVirtual/) at the moment. Sohaib Athar an IT consultant in Abbottabad Lahore Pakistan. That’s right. The fella who ‘inadvertently’ live tweeted the raid on Bin Laden’s compound. I
journalism Does journalism need a fail whale? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I thought about the title of this post as I was reading around how the recent update to twitter has caused a
google Digital job hunting [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Last week I gave a short lecture to broadcast (and a smattering of magazine) students about using the web to help find a job. I tried to sum the whole thing up in a pithy slide: It was really
Josh Halliday The price of transparency [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)The price of transparency is £5. At least that’s what it will cost you to see the whole of this [clarification at the Northumberland Gazette](http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/Maltings-funding-correction.5919148.jp). [[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaunwong/
Journalist Any journalist who hasn’t tried Twitter should re-think their career: New Year convictions [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)The last of my new year convictions I said** Any journalist who hasn’t tried [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/ "Twitter") should re-think their career** A bit of link bait really. I don’t thing that any journalist who
broadcast New Year convictions [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/streamishmc/2923613314/)From Flickr by Guerrilla Futures = Jason
alexgamela Olympic censorship comment on twitter [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Loved this twitter from [Alex Gamela](http://olago.wordpress.com/)
Labour MP Battle for Lib dem leadership on Twitter [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Labour MP and Under Secretary Of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans Tom Watson has hit [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/ "Twitter"). A human face compared to a lot of the parlimentary twitter that goes on. With that
Chris Anderson The long, long, long tail of digital revenue models [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Just got home after ducking out of the Journalism Leaders forum which went under the title *“Why isn’t more media translating into more money for mainstream media companies?”* The panelists where Chris Anderson of ‘The Long Tail’ fame,
PR Watching the watchers [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Isn’t Twitter great? As well as the very entertaining toon theme Friday that [Paul B got started](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/18/twittercartoonday/) last week (kudos Paul) I picked up this page of advice to company/PR
newspaper video Newspaper video tag cloud - via twitter [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I asked the twitter community if they had a view on what ‘newspaper video’ meant to them as kind of a Twitter meme. 140 characters (minus the @malarky) to say what they thought was good or bad. Why? Well,
newspaper video Twitter meme: What is newspaper video? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Could you describe what newspaper video means to you in 160 characters? I’m tinkering with something that needs some content and I
california Social media in the newsroom - a small example [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A fantastic series of articles by [Robert Patterson ](http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/)on the online efforts of Californian outfit KBPS during last years fires. I was going to type reporting efforts there but it’s clear