Social Media Lab

So what on earth does a Social Media Lab look like?

Gizmodo: in focus

Passion, quirkiness, focus. The 'Jeremy Clarkson model' delivers a blogbuster

News.bbc.co.uk: in focus

Once upon a time news.bbc.co.uk was the world's leading news site...that is - until Google news came out!

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Do social media conversations have rules or is it just a free-for-all?

How to put the sociology into social media: a conversation with Stephen Fitzpatrick, JSM editor.

Social media activism: the Greenpeace experience

Blazing a trail as an online Greenpeace campaigner: part two of a conversation with JSM editor Stephen Fitzpatrick

What do Greenpeace and Saatchi and Saatchi have in common?

Someone disturbed enough to work for both, does his best to tell us. Part three of conversation with Stephen Fitzpatrick

“I’ve just had a very interesting meeting”

Saatchi’s ‘open door ideas policy’ kick-starts the social media lab. Stephen FItzpatrick conversation part four

Virtual Donal McIntyre? Not quite

Donal McIntyre -the online environmental activist. Nearly. i/view with Stephen FItzpatrick part five.

Social media meets e-government

Repositioning a government department as a social media business. Stephen Fitzpatrick i/view part six.

The Journal of Social Media

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The Arrington Controversy: A JSM briefing

The blogosphere's startups mogul is under house arrest for blog crimes he says he didn't commit

Want to set up an online TV channel?

Learn the ropes from Iain Dale, who’s re-writing the broadcaster’s rule-book

Blogs we read

There's 55 million blogs out there, so why pick these?

Robert Scoble: in focus

Scoble isn’t dead! He's in Videography Valhalla

Dave Winer: in focus

If anyone could be credited with kickstarting the blogosphere, it’s this man.

Steve Gillmor: in focus

The Gillmor gang, Steve’s ‘Radio show’ (er, podcast) was THE media to tune to.

Jakob Nielsen: in focus

Is it possible that aiming for perfect usability is misconceived?

Channel9: in focus

Want to know how to do next generation corporate videos?

Amazon.com: in focus

Amazon made customer reviews integral to what they do. Shame they gave up there.

Sites we rate

Not just the usual social media suspects. Plus the reasons why!

Organisations to watch

Why these? Social or anti-social media/technologists? You decide.

CNET and ZDNET – Social Media’s long-lost Godparents?

The first part of a four-part conversation with JSM editor Peter Friedman about the secret history of Social Media.

The social media side of stockbroking?

Putting theory into practise and working with internet legend
Alpesh Patel. part two of conversation with JSM editor, Peter Friedman.

Link-blogging before the blogosphere?

Peter Friedman tells me how he persuaded a training services company to embrace the blogosphere, before it existed! Shurely shome mishtake?

Social media and its discontents

The concluding part of my conversation with Peter Friedman about social media and his fears about what happens after what happens next.