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Follow the tweets from our bilingual seminar in Oslo on using the social web here: Update 28 October 2018: This mash-up was powered by Twemes, a service apparently long defunct by now - hence the now missing tweets. https://twemes.com/socialweb.json?variable=tweme_data&count=10https://twemes.
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No, I'm not leading up to rant, rather I'm going to invite bloggers, journalists - and everyone interested - to share in whatever competitive advantage I get from tapping into the social webBetter still, I've put together a seminar on using the social web
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So it's official: blogging does change journalists. It takes these swaggering, macho creatures, unencumbered by community ties, political or moral persuasions, friendships or other obligations and affiliations which might compromise a journalist's independence, and makes them... eh... ...human... This might of course be taken as evidence
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"Readers are more critical to online journalism today than three years ago. The only ones who are even more critical to online journalism are the journalists themselves," media researcher Arne Krumsvik talking about a survey he'll be presenting at a journalism conference this Saturday.The survey
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Here's your chance to hear Eirik Solheim, one of the new media gurus at The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), talk about NRKs blogging efforts, media transparency and how to engage readers in the new media reality. I might be promising a bit too much here as this is
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Despite the apparant lack of bloggers and twitterers hammering away on their keyboards to communicate their experiences live from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) at Lillehammer this month, it is still possible to find some useful notes and reports from the event online;-) The first point of stop
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David Kaplan, the director for International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on harmonica during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) 2008 at Lillehammer, Norway, last week. I've uploaded all my more informal pictures from the event to Journalisten.no's Flick'r account (which means all
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I came across two posts today that brilliantly spell out how web 2.0 is a blessing for journalists Of course, those of you who've spent a lot of time using social media might be familiar with a lot of this, but the posts summarise the headlines of
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Yes, it's that kind of day: just recovering from what felt like a flu on Saturday, which today is more like a really nasty cold, and trying to catch up with work as well as all the writing I planned to do over the weekend I mostly spent
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I was reading a post by Ian Betteridge (via Joanna Geary) and thought to myself, "Well, of course: journalists need to become part of the conversation, part of the community they serve again, or history will just make them irrelevant." Then I was reminded of the term "
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I was alerted to this " handy-dandy [collaborative] guide to these curmudgeonly views and their counterpoints" by one of Mark Comerford's tweets. I can think of a few answers, but am mired in deadlines, think I've exceeded my screen rationing time for today (and tomorrow
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Sunday Herald has a really interesting piece on how some of Scotland's leading journalists are coping with reader comments, which makes for interesting and revealing reading (via Martin Stabe). Most can't abide or be bothered with them for more or less obvious reasons; it's