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A nice aggregation of online community and social network topical blogs…
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"back in 1997, Bill Kovach, Tom Rosentiel and the Committee of Concerned Journalists convened a series of forums throughout the nation, bringing together no fewer than 3000 journalists, academics, First Amendment scholars, and regular folks to identify and discuss the core values of journalism….
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Twitter is, uh, getting more popular…
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Not must new here other than this revelation – that 'official' BBC NEWS twitter feeds are double checked before being sent: "Yesterday at Media140, Darren Waters, the BBC's technology editor told us that the Corporation double checks individual tweets published on official BBC Twitter feeds. "
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"Mr Brittin said that Google searches for magazines and other printed publications online had risen by almost 500 per cent in the last four years. He urged publishers to learn from the success of web-based e-commerce sites to gain a better understanding of how to engage with consumers and meet their needs. "
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What you do with your social media profiles will increase your chances of being found, considered and hopefully selected. So make sure that you keep them up to date: blog or comment on other's musings, make friends with people in your field, join the right groups, sign up to relevant events and mailing lists and take an active role in these activities. Be seen to be supportive, helpful and knowledgeable about your specialist area and others will draw that conclusion too.
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"She joined because home PC maintenance company Geek Squad signed her up, propped her up for a photo opportunity and press-released the hell out of it."
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"During a press conference I asked the question of of of Google’s executives, and the answer came back that “the kind of innovation like what Twitter is doing and what we’re doing is increasing search speed, relevance , freshness and comprehensiveness. Other companies will come up with solutions of course.”
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f this is “real” – and the fact that the account has now been deleted suggest it is – then Nick Brown, known to be close to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, knows that there will be a UK general election this Summer. And he just sent a Tweet which was meant to be a private direct message. Stay tuned, this story is breaking…
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Interested mostly in this bit… "Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler, on what he dubbed the ‘dinosaur panel,’ was refreshingly in tune with the idea of listening to to users for product design and even leveraging the opensource community for technology development."
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"Thunder Thimble is a web based application meant for monitoring and managing mentions of your products, services, brands in “social media”." Sadly, it only works on Twitter at the moment….