Social Media Journalist: “I’ve never met anyone who isn’t a media type who’s ever heard of Del.icio.us.,” Robert Hardie, Northcliffe Media
Journalism.co.uk talks to reporters across the globe working at the collision of journalism and social media about how they see it changing their industry. This week, Robert Hardie, from UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media.
1. Who are you and what do you do?
Robert Hardie, content strategy director for Northcliffe Media.
2. Which web or mobile-based social media tools do you use on a daily basis and why?
All Northcliffe’s 56 This Is websites for obvious reasons, LinkedIn, Facebook (probably weekly) and my Attensa for Outlook RSS reader.
We get 200,000+ interactions across the This Is network, which is an amazing insight into what normal people use UGC and social media for.
LinkedIn to keep aware of who’s doing what that we might benefit from, Facebook to see what it’s doing more than what my friends are doing (I just speak to them), Attensa for Outlook so that all my RSS feeds end up on my Blackberry.
3. Of the thousands of social media tools available, could you single one out as having the most potential for news either as a publishing or a news gathering tool?
Google News, it works for both readers and publishers and indexes better and wider than anyone else.
4. And the most overrated in your opinion?
Del.icio.us. I’ve never met anyone who isn’t a media type who’s ever heard of it, let alone used it.
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April 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
(posted on behalf of Murray Dick)
Hi Oliver,
Can’t say I’m hugely surprised by Robert’s remarks about del.icio.us. I’ve been experimenting with it for use in regional news recently, and it’s come up short:
http://slewfootsnoop.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/delicious-for-journalism-a-note-of-caution/
That said, I did use it to some effect last week in Cambridgeshire:
http://slewfootsnoop.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/training-notes-from-cambridge/
I say give it time. There’s got to come a time when most people get sick of searching down and adding favourites for every computer they use.