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14
Aug
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BBC and Bit.ly create bbc.in

What do you get when you take one of the worlds greatest content creators and mix it up with best url shortener?

You get bbc.in that’s what – If you head over to Bit.ly, or even through Twitter herself (got to be a women with all that gossip and bieber love in the trending topics) you’ll get something other than a bit.ly/[id] as the shortened url. Read moreRead more

23
Nov

Beebs College of Journalism to go live in December

Nearly five years ago the BBC launched a new virtual training service for its journalists called the BBC College of Journalism – or CoJo.

CoJo has evolved considerably since it first started but is basically a mixture of digital courses, face to face courses and information/best practice provided in the form of a blog and articles.

Their are focused exercises looking at things like writing that includes digital courses, videos, guides and advice from people within and outside the BBC.

There is also a very impressive, and fun, virtual newsroom application that throws story updates and tasks at you in quick order.

Well this incredible resource for BBC staff will be opened up to the wider British public on 14 December. It will be free for British users and under a subscription for people accessing it internationally.

The team behind the service have been busy “writing, editing, blogging” to get the content ready to launch the site to the wider public.

As well as the learning resources and blogs the team are also making use of feeds like twitter and delicious to pull in information from around the rest of the web.

According to Kevin Marsh of the team, there are currently around 2,500 pages within the site, a couple of hundred videos and dozens of virtual newsroom scenarios.

Once it has gone live I think this will quickly become an invaluable resource for journalists, bloggers, academics, students and even people sharing stories with their friends.

And hopefully it will be picked up and used by people contributing to message boards, comment systems and phone-ins as the libel courses would help make those platforms run more smoothly.

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Story Curve: Emerging into the light

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8
Sep

Out of the Tweet

UPDATE

I’m now back @upyourego on Twitter – thanks to the people at Twitter for fixing it.

Out of date

I’m not one for going big on the whole posting about what I’ve already posted on twitter but instead doing it more comprehensively on my blog.

I’m actually more likely to do it the other way around – I’ll write something on my blog and then post a link and a few details to Twitter.

However, I’ve not been doing much in the way of personal postings to Twitter for a while – in fact its since just after the whole Twitter hacky takedown thing a month or so ago.

I first signed up for Twitter while it was in invite only beta – according to Twitterholic that was 32 months ago but I’m sure it was November not February – either way I’ve been using it a while.

Someone or more likely some machine posted a spam message to my Twitter account @upyourego (I won’t bother linking as it doesn’t work anymore) and since then my account has been suspended.

I’ve been told by Twitter I can have it back as I changed my password and removed all rights I’d given to third parties – but I still haven’t got it back and nobody bothers replying to me any more.

So I’ve set up a new twitter account @musicego that I guess I’ll have to build a following at again – I was up to 600 on @upyourego before I was locked out by Twitter.

Of course I have been actively twittering @jsyintroducing during the Jersey Live music festival and managing the @bbcjersey account as well for BBC Jersey.

So that’s why I’ve been quiet on Twitter for so long.

Of course if anyone from Twitter does read this post – PLEASE free the @upyourego one :)

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27
Jan

Zero to 1000 in 10 minutes

rustyrockets

OK so I just witnessed something a bit weird – the opening up and first postings of what will soon become one of the highest profile Twitter accounts.

It’s great that @Wossy (Jonathan Ross) and @stephenfry (Stephen Fry) and even @bobbyllew (Robert Llewellyn) are on Twitter but now that @rustyrockets (Russell Brand) has joined the BritTwit fellowship – things are going to go mental.

Russell Brand
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I watched Jonathan Ross post at around 10.25pm “russell now has proper twitter account ! Would you like his name ?” which was quickly followed by “@rustyrockets” three minutes later.

Between that moment, which was quickly followed by this post from @rustyrockets “i have come to join you pleas be gentle with me as ive been feeling vulnerable… yet implausibly, sexy” and now – he went from 0 to 1700 followers.

It seems to have settled down a little bit now but at one point – a refresh every second saw an extra 20 or 30 followers.

There’s even a TwitPic from @Wossy – I guess Russell was at his house. Oh and “Hello Daily Mail Hack searching for Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in the hope of finding another pointless story”.

Of course this comment from @Wossy might mean a limited number of posts from @rustyrockets “my kids just told russell that twitter is for oldies. he is cursing me now.”

But somehow I doubt that would have an effect – although interestingly not long before that @bobbyllew was talking about his daughter describing Twitter as being like “MSN for old people”.

Is Twitter really for old people? OK so I’m now in my late twenties – so what are the, oh god I can’t believe I’m about to post this but, what ARE the kids using nowadays?

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