I was at news:rewired last week talking about community management and while there are already some great round-ups of the sessions available, I wanted to share the things I took away. In no particular order of importance: 1) The Telegraph’s Kate Day made the salient point that communities around a newspaper brand are nothing new [...]
- Laura Oliver
Last week I was kindly invited to take part in a discussion about community management in the newsroom as part of Journalism.co.uk’s fifth news:rewired conference. My slides (courtesy of Slideshare) and a video of my presentation are below – any as feel free to comment or tweet me @lauraoliver. Enhancing Community Engagement: Laura Oliver, the [...]
- Laura Oliver
While many news headlines have described the #jan25 movement in Egypt as a Facebook or Twitter revolution – conflating platform with substance - the organisation of the protests bore more similarities to Wikipedia, according to Wael Ghonim. @ghonim, as he is perhaps more widely known, is the former Google engineer whose role as an activist [...]
- Laura Oliver