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Jim Muttram

Twitter as backchannel

A new challenge is confronting conference speakers today: Twitter. In increasing numbers audience are using Twitter to create a back channel around a conference. This can be a challenge to the presenter, but social media consultant Laura Fitton, aka Pistachio Consulting, argues the opposite. She…

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Jim Muttram

The social dimension of companies

A couple of stories which have been blowing up on the Twittersphere over the past couple of days serve to illustrate the point that organisations' reputations are very vulnerable to their employees' (or affiliates') actions online - and in particular on social media. The first…

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Jim Muttram

Twitter on Twitter

Twitter has been in the news a lot recently and not all of it for the right reasons. The (positive) obsession started with living legend Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross which ignited some frenzied MSM attention. Then followed what @henryp calls the "twatlash" - adverse…

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Jim Muttram

A MoJo lets his readers define story

A great post by Daniel Victor sets out to explain his new role as MoJo - mobile journalist. He seems genuinely excited about this new challenge: What that means is, correctly, still to be determined. We do know it’ll involve video, still photography, print stories…

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Jim Muttram

The Credit Crisis explained

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Jonathan Jarvis, as part of his thesis at the the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, produced this excellent animation to explain exactly what caused the credit crisis. Excellent stuff. Technorati Tags: credit crunch,…

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