BBC tells journalists to use social media as a primary source. BBC journalists must keep up with technological change – or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says BBC news journalists have been told to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. Or Leave. This article is well worth reading in it’s entirety – and one wonders how far behind News Australia and Fairfax are in making similar statements.

Last year we wrote about the case of the Virgin Atlantic employees who were sacked for talking about customers (and indeed their employers) in social networks , and why you should be careful what you say on Facebook . This week had seen more cases in the UK of employees using social networks to talk about their employers and in particular their customers. At the time we wrote that: …we’ve probably all talked about work gossip, probably with a small group of friends, privately in a bar or over dinner. What these Virgin employees did may have felt just like that - they were

Euan Semple started the BBC intranet on a box under his desk and the seasoned community practitioner Dawn Lacallade (previously Lead Stormchaser at Dell and now at solarwinds ) tirelessly waded through the politics at Dell to extol the benefits of the early Dell communities. Helen Trim Online communities BBC c20 customer communities dawn lacallade Dell Euan Semple freshminds FreshNetworks innovation Key performance indicator Management On the Web online communities online research community san francisco Scottrade social media Social network solarwinds Virtual community web2.

Thursday’s Question Time on the BBC featured the leader of the British National Party, saw a record number of viewers and reportedly 12.5 Of the two shows, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing offers a richer experience. Their Strictly Social site allows you to watch the show via BBC iPlayer and chat in real time with viewers alongside the screen. Image by dhammza via Flickr Watching TV is almost always a social experience. 

Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. ellison.html Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship danah m. Ellison Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Go to a section in the article: Abstract Introduction Social Network Sites: A Definition A History of Social Network Sites Previous Scholarship JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

On my return I turned to my three favourite sources for getting up to speed quickly on what’s been happening: BBC News, Twitter and Google. Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media BBC News Crimean War freshminds FreshNetworks Google Iran Los Angeles Michael Jackson On the Web online communities social media Social network Social network service social networking Twitter Virtual community We Image by tibchris via Flickr I’ve spent the last ten days with no Internet and very little access to English-language news sources.

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There has been mixed coverage of this in traditional media - with many criticising CNN for its coverage , and the BBC seemingly blocked in Iran as a result of its reports on what is happening. Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media ahmandinejad BBC Brand freshminds FreshNetworks Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Middle East mousavi obama On the Web online communities Politics social media Social network Social network service social networking Twitter United States Virtual community Web YouTub Image by youngrobv (Rob & Ale) via Flickr There has been a lot of talk

Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.  I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts with negativity and

Solution Watch 8apps: Social Networking for Productive People Last year I had selected the task management solution Orchestrate as a top pick in 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive . Now Tokyo based startup Jonkenpon, creator of Orchestrate, has launched a service called 8apps which aims to be a social network for productive people. The first three The idea is to create a community where users can not only meet new people but work with them in a suite of productivity based applications. There are currently three applications available in the 8apps suite with