Sacked journalists take to blogging? Accepted in Typepad’s Journalist Bailout Program. [link] Being incurably nosy, I went off to look at Typepad’s “ Journalist bailout program “. Now called Typepad for Journalists. I was on Twitter’s party line for the Monday night (USA time) chats on journalism #journchat, and was a little taken aback to see the number of journalists tweeting about losing their job, papers closing, and so on. Then this one caught my eye. @Machione:

Widgets are, hence, little blocks of information which can be added to a blog, mostly in the sidebar. Almost any kind of information can be widgetized and offered in a blog as an additional feature. Why widgets are important and how they can spice up your blog Blogs alone are nice, but with widgets you can upgrade your blog to an information portal and stimulate interactivity. This is a joint post together with Christian Kreutz , which we co-created in a google doc . (mine mine is a little longer though) 1.

Back in 2006 I called it SMS blogging, but now that’s all changed as the major use is the web and desktop applications (incl. Perhaps we can compare it to similar tools like blogs, forums, IM, email, Facebook and RSS Readers, as Ross Mayfield has asked ( Mike Gotta has thoughts on this also). I can post a tweet as a publishing in the open (similar to a blog or newspaper), whereas in IM I only interact if there is someone on the My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform .

If so, please send me a message , so we can give him/her the recognition he deserves. Explore Culture Entertainment Life Music News & Politics Technology » Who’s on Vox View more Voxers »

A while ago I posted on YackTrack , which is a solution to catching comments made about your blog posts that happen in other blogs and places. If I want to see a list of blog posts that have linked to one of my blog posts, all I do is do a link search in Technorati This is great as now I am aware of both people who comment directly on my blog post, and also people who talk about me (link to my blog Well now there is a new contender , BackType , which is the same comment network I posted on a while ago (once you register it finds comments you make without you having to submit them in Backtype, and you can also network with other profiles).

As more trained journalists move into the amateur blogging space, what are the fundamental differences in the blogging style between the two? While some journalists adapt to the new writing style well, understanding the media shifts and blogging well as part of the blogosphere, other journalists that blog – let’s call them journoggers – stand apart from the blogosphere, raiding it for content, and disturbing equilibrium. Please note: that might well be a good thing to do or it might cause the journogger to eventually be rejected. As the BBC tells

So I am very pleased that she has started a blog. Her blog, Conversation Matters , continues this work with very comprehensive thought pieces. recommend taking a look at her blog. As a disclaimer, I advised Nancy in starting her new Typepad blog. I have known Nancy Dixon for some time and have always respected her work in knowledge management and organizational learning. Nancy is well known for her many books, including Common Knowledge and heads her consulting firm, Common Knowledge Associates .

To conclude Twitter week on Portals and KM, I want to share 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009 by Rachel Cunliffe on Mashable. TwitterRolls - In addition to blog rolls, bloggers will list their favorite tweeters and optionally a short note on why they’re worth following to help others discover new tweeters. am suggesting to my blog clients to list all the active twitters in their firm on their blog in this manner. I am reorganizing her content to reflect its availability and then providing my thoughts in most cases.

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The Connectbeam Social Computing Blog A resource and viewpoint from Connectbeam on how social computing is changing the way we work. We cover the broader market and what we are doing at Connectbeam. Connectbeam Go to Connectbeam.com Blogs of Interest AcKnowledge Consulting Alec Saunders Andrew McAfee AppGap Ben Worthen Bill Ives BizTechTalk Carl Frappaolo Dan Farber Dana Gardner Daniela Barbosa