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What I learned about Twitter and journalism in 2010 – tips and advice from a compulsive tweeter

Thursday, December 23, 2010

I was very pleased and grateful to be included – for the second year running – in Journalism.co.uk’s top five tweeters of the year. It’s a always good to be recognised like that but the real buzz from Twitter is having and keeping more than 3,000 followers and carrying on the conversation, link-sharing and jokes [...]

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Are your tweets endorsed by your employer?

Friday, October 29, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Some things just brighten your day. On Twitter this morning I mused – not for the first time – that those silly disclaimers people put in their Twitter profiles to distance their views from their employer are not worth the bytes they’re not printed on. Invariably, people in public-facing roles write something [...]

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Kachingle: A route to revenue through community crowd-funding

Saturday, March 20, 2010

In the new, revenue-shy era of online publishing, knowledgeable “amateurs” and self-employed journalists like me publish (theoretically) on an equal footing with Big Media. Hyperlocal sites are providing tiny communities and large towns with real, connected online news; expert, lay commentators on everything from sport to fishing are giving away the kind of insight and [...]

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