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Clay Shirky at New Media Days

Jesper — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:57:06 +0000

Last week one of my favourite speakers on all-things-web 2.0, Clay Shirky, gave a speech at New Media Days 2009 conference in Copenhagen (Denmark). The speech was recorded on video and although it has not appeared on YouTube yet, you can watch it at the New Media Days’ website: Clay Shirky: “New Motivations and Opportunities – Understanding the Amateur Producer”

Enjoy!

International blogger survey

Jesper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:24:49 +0000

International blogger survey

Text100, a global public relations company, has published their survey of 449 blogs from North America, Europe and Asia. I found it especially interesting that even though bloggers behave very similar and have similar interests there are still cultural differences that affect e.g. how they respond to being contacted by public relations companies, who wants them to write about products or clients.

See the blog post “PR folks: Time to listen – global bloggers tell it like it is” and dive into the survey’s results in the presentation below.

Text 100 Global Blogger Survey Report Final

View more documents from Text 100 Public Relations.

Thanks to Jonas Rugaard for bringing the survey to my attention!

BBC hires social media editor

Jesper — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:03:10 +0000

BBC hires social media editor

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The BBC has decided to introduce a social media editor to its ranks, reports The Guardian. The idea is that the editor is going to ‘help the BBC learn how to explore and navigate in social media’, the Guardian.com writes.

Sky News, a competitor of the BBC, introduced a Twitter correspondent last spring. The BBC, however, is not in a race but rather wants to investigate how social media can potentially benefit a large news organisation such as theirs.

Earlier this year, the New York Times appointed Jennifer Preston as its first social media editor. However, her lack of activity on the web and use of services and tools such as Twitter resulted in criticism.

It is going to be interesting to see what the BBC will achieve with their social media editor.

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincochran/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

Welcome to the blog

Jesper — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:26:03 +0000

Welcome to the blog

Welcome to the opening post of AskAboutSocialMedia.com! I hope this site will provide you with interesting new knowledge and ideas about how to use social media.

I want to start out with showing two videos. One is by Dr. Michael Wesch, who teaches digital ethnography at Kansas State University. I have been following his ideas and videos about teaching, learning and other subjects for some time now and he strikes me as truely a unique teacher and thinker.

The other video is by one of my favourite speakers on web 2.0 and social media – the author of “Here Comes Everybody”, Clay Shirky.

Both videos illustrate a point about the interconnected world we live in today and the impact that social media and web 2.0 has on our lives. I hope you enjoy them!