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Category Archives: digital
Photo School, Friday School and Social Media Group Therapy
This is obviously the Year of the School. Firstly, there’s my moveable cake-fuelled feast of learning, the Friday School, while over on the other office sofa, Pete has just launched Matt and Pete’s Photo School. Photo School is a monthly … Continue reading
Welcome to Friday school (or how I developed my own freelance training programme)
UPDATE: I’ve blogged a fuller version of this as a guest post on Firehead.net if you want to know more: How I teach myself digital skills using cake!
Cantal press trip blogged – and a travel request
Just back from a week in the centre of France in a little known area called the Cantal. It may be “one of the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated French departments”, according to Wikipedia, but it does have one … Continue reading
Posted in digital, Journalism, Presstrips, travel
Tagged Cantal, France, press trip, travel
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Travmedia launches new social network for travel trade
Travmedia, a press release and journalist alert service which connects journalists and PRs, has just made a very smart move (I hope) by launching a Facebook-style social network, that will facilitate many more travel trade connections and work opportunities, and … Continue reading
Posted in digital, Journalism, travel
Tagged Journalism, social network, social networking, travel, travmedia
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Dataviz first attempts
Having wrestled with a significant number of roadblocks for what is a fairly straightforward dataset, I am happy to announce the birth of my first data visualisation comparing 2011 figures for the percentage of women in the boardroom across a … Continue reading
Posted in digital, Journalism
Tagged data, datajournalism, dataviz, graphic, information
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News from my blogs
Having different blogs for different subject areas means that I am a slave to them all. So if it’s quiet here on my central hub then it’s probably because I’m over on one of my other workday or spare-time blogs. … Continue reading
Posted in Content strategy, CV, digital, Journalism, Links, Misc, Photography, travel
Tagged links
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My digital switchover
I wasn’t going to post this but the above is what happens when a pun comment and some beery late night Photoshopping collide. All those TV reminders about the analogue-to-digital switchover in September must have also seeped into my brainz. … Continue reading
Anyone else out there do what I do?
The shift in publishing from print to digital has changed my production journalist job beyond all recognition – a transition I blogged about in last year in RIP Sub-editing. Now, instead of ‘journalist’, I answer blogger or web editor or … Continue reading
Posted in Content strategy, CV, digital, Journalism, Misc
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The perfect rose?
Sometimes, despite low light conditions and a shady rainy British summer evening sky, the perfect picture is made. This one is from a photo project idea I had to pick ‘A dozen roses’ from the front garden. It was delivered … Continue reading
18 practical content strategy tips in 8 minutes
If (like me) you have been tuning in to the rise of content strategy, but feel a bit lacking in actual practical know-how, then this collection of soundbites and voxpops – wrung by me from the mouths and Twitter accounts … Continue reading
Posted in Content strategy, digital
Tagged advice, conference, content, content strategy, contentstrategy, csapplied, tips, video
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