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Heritage Hartigan attacks everyday Australian readers

by Laurel Papworth on July 1, 2009 · 5 comments

John Hartigan, chief of News Corp Australian office went on the attack today. It might be just me, but the whole thing reeks of the newspaper ship sinking and an angry captain not making any sense. From Duncan Riley’s The Inquisitr:
Almost anyone can start one of these sites, with very little capital, no training or [...]

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Blog Journalism: The World As Editor

by Laurel Papworth on June 9, 2009 · 4 comments

Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!

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Pay for News vs Save The Media

by Laurel Papworth on May 7, 2009 · 5 comments

Just a quick follow up on Death Cycle of Newspapers – News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch - Current days of free internet will soon be over, says media mogul (The Guardian)
Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation’s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a [...]

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Australia Enterprise: list of business online communities

by Laurel Papworth on March 10, 2009 · 6 comments

A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Not blogs – they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc.  Here’s my Australian list:

Aussie Innovation – drupal site with forums and so on.
Aussie Tycoon – vBulletin forum for entrepreneurs
Australian Businesswomen’s Network – run mentoring programs (private community).
Australian Business [...]

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Event Australia: PR & New Media Summit Frocomm

by Laurel Papworth on February 24, 2009 · 5 comments

Sydney Event: Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Read the full program but the speakers are:

Brian Giesen, Digital Specialist, Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Australia
Graeme Wood, Founder and Executive Director, Wotif.com
Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy
Francisco Cordero, General Manager, Bebo
Andrew Cordwell, Director of Sales, Fox Interactive Media, Australia and New [...]

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Monetize: Social Media Proprietors

by Laurel Papworth on December 16, 2008 · 2 comments

.. so what is a “social media proprietor”? And how is s/he different from a blogger?
Dunno, don’t ask me. Google it….
uh oh, we are both in trouble. The only response from Google on “social media proprietor(s)” are MY presentations. So either they don’t exist, have another name or … I’m the first one to document [...]

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How to Moderate a Forum

by Laurel Papworth on August 20, 2008 · 12 comments

Quick and easy Moderating tips, for some people who have been asking lately.
1. ETIQUETTE STATEMENTneeds a whole lot of behavioural statements (play nicely) but the most important ones are:
The Moderators word is final, do not discuss bans or penalties on the forum. If you have a question regarding a penalty, please email the head [...]

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Australia: Social Media Freelance Journalism

by Laurel Papworth on June 18, 2008 · 37 comments

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My presentation slides to Freelance Journalists Group (80 or so) last night – you can flick through the slides by clicking.
As I mentioned earlier, I was invited to talk to The Sydney Freelance Journalists Group (MEAA)Basically the slides focus on blogs as content, facebook/digg as distribution, twitter as [...]

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2020 Summit: Objective Journalists vs Passionate Blogging

by Laurel Papworth on March 5, 2008 · 5 comments

If you read an article about curing cancer by a journalist do you assume the journalist is the expert in curing cancer? If you see a blog, or a group blog, dedicated to writing, creating and discussion cancer cures, would you think the blogger had more indepth knowledge and life experience in assessing cancer cures [...]

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Event: Media08 Question: Who should I speak to?

by Laurel Papworth on March 4, 2008 · 9 comments

s’not often you see ‘cocktails’ in a header image

I managed to wrangle a VIB pass to Media08. VIB stands for Very Important Blogger. Media08 don’t call me that – I’ve given myself that title – let’s call is a ‘user generated title‘? heh.
The organisers of Media08 have been nice enough to treat me like a [...]

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EVENT: Scientology and PR & New Media Summit

by Laurel Papworth on March 3, 2008 · 2 comments

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s a-conferencing I go. Today and tomorrow anyway. And Friday. Oh and next week at ad:tech too. First up: today and tomorrow

Ross MonaghanDeakin University and Founder, The MediaPod
Rob Shilkin [...]

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Australia – Event: Media 08

by Laurel Papworth on February 12, 2008 · 4 comments

Are you going?
Media 08
Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals.
Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney
Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008.
“Media ‘08″ brings together world leading experts from the UK, the [...]

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Corey Worthington and Wikipedia and Admin Zealots

by Laurel Papworth on January 20, 2008 · 8 comments

From CrikeyMedia on YouTube
In online communities, years ago, we used to use the politically incorrect term “Forum or Admin Nazi” to denote a forum moderator that deletes content due to either a) a rigid interpretation of the rules or b) makes up the rules as they go along. An example of a) would be deleting [...]

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