Audience & Social
March 2011 was the month that UK Uncut hit the headlines. Born out of the hashtag #UK Uncut which began circulating after George Osborne’s spending review in October 2010, Uk Uncut describes itself as a grassroots movement taking action to highlight alternatives to the government's spending cuts.
Audience & Social
February 2011 was the month of the domino effect. Following on from the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, social media was flooded with calls for protests in Middle Eastern counties including Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain and Libya. The internet's influence was evidenced by the increasing reliance of mainstream
How-To
After a discussion with some of the other interhacktives, two things became readily apparent: * Being able to search for words accompanying trends on Twitter would be really useful * Currently, support for "sub-trend" searches is fairly lacking As an example of the first point: imagine you're
Audience & Social
We follow, we friend, we linkin, we have buzzed and we have myspaced. We keep connecting. I believe I’m not too far off if I say we network now more than ever before in our entire history. Yet what we mostly do is connect at, dare I say, a
News
Antonia Kanczula Proving that modern communication tools can be used to reinterpret the past, an Oxford Uni history graduate has launched an ambitious six-year project to bring the Second World War (back) to life via Twitter. Alwyn Collinson, 24, is meticulously cataloguing every event - from eyewitness statements to military
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1. Tea Party Pledge BlueRobot April 15, 2010 5:33:23 AM EDT 2. I have something of a confession to make: I truly, utterly and sincerely admire the Tea Party's social media strategy. For my own benefit more than anyone else's, I would like to
Audience & Social
In story on the Guardian website today, 70% of people (in a survey of 973 adults) suggested they would be in favour of shutting down the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger during civil unrest. It comes off the back of the prosecutions for inciting riots (even though they
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Antonia Kanczula Yet again, it’s been a busy week for quirky tales – from using social media to track disease outbreaks to a Mexican football team replacing their players' shirt names with Twitter handles. Proving that amongst its myriad benefits, Twitter can be a conduit for reliable, level-headed
How-To
Rebecca Ratcliffe Following on from Abby’s post discussing reasons to get active on twitter, here’s some insight from Kate Day - The Telegraph’s social media powerhouse – on how to use twitter as a breaking news platform: 1) If a story is about to break, create new lists quickly
Events
Abby Young-Powell Kate Day, The Telegraph’s Social Media and Engagement Editor, gives three good reasons why Journalists should make the most of sites like Twitter (this one’s for all the sceptics out there)... 1. Employers judge us on our online presence Impressing employers has always been about