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January was a particularly busy month for me, what with one week’s hols, one week in London at a trade show and one week caught up with family business, I’m still trying to grasp that it’s February already.
So I was probably the last one in the Isle of Man to know that Richard Butt, editor of Isle of Man newspapers is keeping a blog.
And it’s really good. It gives readers and insight into the workings of the newsroom and explains what goes into publishing a newspaper …
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1. Stephen Davies must have spent a lot of time in compiling this list of UK jounalists on Twitter.
2. Christopher Howse asks if we should abandon the use of the apostrophe. I vote no!
3. Look who made the UK top 50 PR people by Twitter influence!
4. Chris Brogan has a case study of an individual told to stay out of social media by his boss. Sadly I’ve heard similar stories myself. Talk about baby and bathwater.
5. Should you or shouldn’t you? Niall Cook posts a list of questions you should …
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I’ve been to dozens of awards dinners over the years and on the whole they are generally either very tedious affairs or very boozy parties, depending on whether you’ve won an award.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Awards for Excellence gala in Douglas, Isle of Man. This was not your run of the mill awards ceremony. In true Manx style, Isle of Man Newspapers made their event a real fun night out. It didn’t matter if you were a winner or not, you were glad to be …
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Tonight the the BCS Isle of Man section is hosting an event about the ManxWiki.
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. Our next event will present ManxWiki as a local initiative using this technology to provide a comprehensive and current information source about the Isle of Man. Here’s what the Wiki says about itself:
Wikis are information websites …
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We’ve recently welcomed a new voice in social media to the Isle of Man. Derek ‘The Bandit’ Richardson has just relocated from South Africa and you’ll soon be hearing him at weekends on 3FM. But when he’s not entertaining Island residents with his take on dance music, he’s pretty busy online. He’s got two podcasts: Switched On, where he looks internet technologies and Sound Republic which focuses on his passion, dance music. He’s got a lot of fans from all over the world (about a millions Facebook friends) and is …
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The third Thursday of each month, the Isle of Man Social Media Club meets. This month, Third Thursday is tomorrow, 18 September, 12.30 at Paparazzi, Douglas Promenade. Everyone is welcome. But should you come?
Anyone who is interested in journalism, publishing, communication, art, media, teaching, learning, Internet, marketing. In short, anyone who is curious about how humans communicate should come along.
Bloggers, podcaster, Facebookers, MySpacers and Twitterers are all welcome. Or maybe you are just curious about these online social platforms and wonder how they fit into your life and business.
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Every once in a while a journalist, a blogger or commenter will push things just a little too far. I’ve been accused of it myself once or twice. Usually I’m happy to make things right.
Today the Independent on Sunday teaches us all a lesson on how to write an apology for publication (blame the reader!):
“As we are happy to point out, we, The Media, have been keen supporters of Mrs Beckham since day one, and any indications to the contrary have …
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Last evening, after a pretty trying day, I spoiled myself by sitting down in a quiet room and reading the newspaper. For someone who usually only finds time to scan a website, it was a real treat. The Isle of Man Examiner is still published as a broadsheet, and I spread the pages out and thoroughly enjoyed myself as I ruffled and turned them and took in stories of every description from all over the Island.
You don’t often get to see a 36 point headline …
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Media Week is reporting that Johnston Press, owners of Isle of Man Newspapers, has seen advertising revenues plummet by 21.0% year on year in the first seven weeks of the second half of the year.
Total revenue fell 6.3% to £293m for the first six months of 2008, year on year, while operating profit fell 15.6% to £81.6m. Interesingly, the group reports that digital revenues grew by 52.1%, but I suspect they were starting from a very low base.
The company said it has cut costs by £7.6m in the first half …
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It seems a whole bunch of people have their knickers in a twist about a split second view of a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley in a Visit London promotional video shown in Beijing.
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said the use of the image is ‘deeply disturbing’.
A senior government official told Sky News that someone ‘should be fired immediately’.
Downing Street says the use of the image was ‘in poor taste’.
Google News shows about 30 mentions of the Hindley image’s use in Beijing.
But let’s get some perspective. The …
