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.

It makes me think it may be censored (like the BBC :)). But good news (or bad news for censors): I was able to read all my RSS feeds (even the BBC) and I could even add my blog to bloglines. Back to blogging! I say an enormous thank you to John and Bill for blogging here during my holidays.

This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards ( BBC Learning Development ) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington ( Ished ); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith . There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 creative (and) technology types from around the country. This report is split into the following: Event purpose

(picture from BBC article) The BBC writes about virtual weddings in Zimbabwe . "Zimbabwe's And it also shows that we've been able to marry technology and tradition adequately." It was not clear to me, how exactly technology was used to support this wedding, apart from the couple phoning afterwards to hear how it has bee Zimbabwe's traditional weddings, usually joyous occasions with singing, dancing and plenty of food, are now increasingly being held in the absence of those whose presence might be considered vital - the bride and groom. " Couples living abroad find it hard to be there for the traditional wedding ceremony, so instead send money home for the ceremony to take place without them.

for MySpace. - MySpace remains the most profitable social network, generating an estimated $1 billion in revenue versus $300 million for Facebook in 2008. - Facebook is the top social network in all countries except Germany, Brazil, and Japan (Nielsen still has MySpace as tops in US in the report, but as of January ’09, that had changed). - On Twitter, CNN, The New York Times, and BBC have the greatest reach among mainstream media companies as of late February. Details are here: [link] It’s worth mentioning that “member communities” is a pretty broad definition of social networking.

He makes the really important point that new media technologies do not have to be in the hands of everyone, before they make a fundamental impact . The primary purpose of these snap shots or 30-second to 2-minute videos was entirely domestic, for disseminating information, enabling mobilization, and regrouping and organization, but before long these visual evidence found their ways into the studios of BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, and other global networks. Finally, an analysis of Iran that gets its right! Between on the one hand the naive embrace of a Twitter Revolution, and a equally

Comes from the BBC Three show "The Wall." Tags: 90% people, 10% technology Facebook Social networkin My friend Clara Shih uses this video in her Facebook Era presentation. First saw her include it at Webcom Montreal 2009 and thought it so funny that I asked her where she got it. If you're on Facebook, you want to see it.

Zapping on television I landed in the middle of a documentary of the BBC: Tribe I had already seen once before. Bruce Parry lives for about a month with isolated tribes and participates in their activities and rituals in a very playful and respectful way. This documentary was about the Suri in Southern Ethiopia (a part of Ethiopia I have never visited).

According to the Guardian (see BBC tells news staff to embrace social media ).  0160;   BBC news journalists have been advised to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News. technology. of He took over

Jon Barker reports: The BBC is abuzz with Obamamania. From the reporter travelling to Washington equipped with a box of  media tools that enable instant communication in text and video, to the back-office programmer near Marble Arch responding to a discussion thread via his mobile phone – the President’s inauguration speech is being debated and disseminated across the BBC’s internal network via a host of social media tools. But  Auntie’ hasn’t always been this way. In the past, the BBC has rarely communicated Sign up for Communicate eNews:  Home About Current Issue News Events Meet Us Archive Contact Us Subscribe Home Current Issue Socialising in the workplace