The (e)Grommet » Uncategorized http://egrommet.net E-learning, Web 2.0, stuff Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:06:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://egrommet.net/2012/02/03/836/ http://egrommet.net/2012/02/03/836/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:23:05 +0000 The Gromm http://egrommet.net/?p=836 Liz Heron New York Times
Talking about effect of social media gives example of President Obama engaging with people on Google+ hangout http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-google-plus_n_1242816.html

Over 400 journalists on twitter 50 have subscribe Facebook

Collaborative projects
2011
Arab spring Japan riots
Occupy

Used twitter Facebook tumblr to diversify source [...]]]> Liz Heron New York Times
Talking about effect of social media gives example of President Obama engaging with people on Google+ hangout http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-google-plus_n_1242816.html

Over 400 journalists on twitter 50 have subscribe Facebook

Collaborative projects
2011
Arab spring Japan riots
Occupy

Used twitter Facebook tumblr to diversify source and ask provocative questions of our readers
Still questions aggressively and sceptically while on social networks

Gone from being social evangelists to being in demand
Storyful for verification

How do we distinguish ourselves, how do we make our social media projects deeper and more meaningful to our readers ?

Decided to invite readers to guide reporting in real time
They can tweet #asknyt asking for real time fact checking
The tweets can be voted on
Rebuilt live blog to become second screen

During primary nights twitter moves onto home page to make coverage more live
Built from lists built in advance
Also put up reader tweet responses
Approach being followed by per news organisations

Analysis of news media tweets metaliveblog using storify

Facebook and google plus to give direct coverage to the people providing coverage

Host social media chats to find out about readers while they find out about the paper
30min video handouts
Hour long Facebook chats

Keep innovating and keep moving forward
Social journalism

The #iconomy human cost of apple project
Project title that sums up well and becomes “hashtag science”nhelps crowd source and reach audience that don’t normally read nyt

Second #iconomy put out mandarin version and then translated comments back for English speakers

How do you take advantage of all these new social media platforms while having time to sleep?

What can we bring to the platform that distinguishes us?

Facebook more conversational and full of ordinary people

Foreign correspondents and how we live desk being encouraged to use as FCs have global audience
Hwld used to cover story on students and depression – got lots of high quality responses

Google plus – flummoxed at first
Deep discussion and video hangouts
Get reporters to jump in the comments

Tumblr and quora being used too

1 be strategic
2be different
2 strive for meaningful interactions

don’t be content to skate on social media surface

]]> http://egrommet.net/2012/02/03/836/feed/ 0 The best response to an FOI request, in the world – ever http://egrommet.net/2011/11/16/the-best-response-to-an-foi-request-in-the-world-ever/ http://egrommet.net/2011/11/16/the-best-response-to-an-foi-request-in-the-world-ever/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:52:10 +0000 The Gromm http://egrommet.net/2011/11/16/the-best-response-to-an-foi-request-in-the-world-ever/ Have you seen a crazy notice on the toilet door of your university asking you not to engage in what The Sun sometimes terms flying solo? Would you file an official request for information if you did?

I got a heads-up on Twitter and found myself looking at an FOI request around this notice that had appeared on the toilet walls according to the request on the site What Do They Know?

Clearly this looks a bit suspect – but the best bit is the excellent response from the member of staff at the University who has clearly spotted what is going on here:

It was a student prank, and regrettably not even an original prank. The notice appears to be a copycat issue of a similar text which appeared recently at Durham and Lancaster universities and a number of universities in the States.

A quick check on Google should give you more information about these incidents should you require it. A strong clue that the notice is fake is the line “Please go home and masturbate if you are bored.”

As a matter of policy, the University would never encourage students to go home during term time.

The absolute killer is the closing lines to this piece – clearly the FOI officer is fulfilling their remit about supporting and helping the applicant to the maximum and deserves to be applauded.

Far from having a policy on masturbation or outlawing the practice, as the bogus notice alleged, the University encourages the study of it, academically at least. Among the titles in the University Library is “Solitary Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation” by Thomas Walter Laqueur, pub Zone Books, New York, 2003.

[1]http://resourcelists.st-andrews.ac.uk/it…
one copy still available to borrow.

I trust this answers your request, but if you require any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

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    Data scraping from published spending by UK govt departments
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