Society of Editors
Last week I spoke at the Society of Editors regional conference in Manchester. Here are the slides. Posted from Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Category Archives: Social Media
Twitter – Verified ✔ or not?
Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in and reported spammers over the last [...]
Netroots
On Saturday I went along to the Netroots event in Manchester to speak about working With The Local Media, I was on a panel with Lawrence Shaw from the NUJ, who tweets as @lawrenceshaw the panel was chaired by Matt Finnegan ex of the Manchester Evening News who tweets as @mattfinished Unfortunately Tina Taylor, a [...]
HTC BlackBerry and Nokia Privacy Issues?
A while back I wrote about my iPhone tracking my location, not very accurately but tracking it non the less. There was uproar about why Apple collected this information and Steve Jobs had some tough questions to answer and had to send one of his Vice Presidents to the Senate to answer them. The whole [...]
Stoke Stories
My slide deck from my session at Stoke Stories this morning. I didn’t do this session in the end but I’ll leave the slides up anyway.Posted from Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom.
Stop Twitter Spam
I wrote this for @talkaboutlocal but have cross posted it here because, I want more people to see it and I am too bone idle today to do a real post so here you go. There seems to have been an increase in Twitter spam over the past week, with people sending out tweets like [...]