MarcLucas

Content Curation: Have You Added It To Your Mix?

    Content curation is new to me in name only, over the years I have been mildly obsessed with researching my topics of the moment, aggregating stories, reports and articles in order to build a comprehensive overview. One of my favourite short-term contracts was working as an open source intelligence analyst (A wonderful job [...]

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Creation, Curation and the Ethics of Content Strategy by Margot Bloomstein.

Whether a beginner or an experienced content curator, this excellent presentation gives plenty of food for thought. Margot Bloomstein is a brand and content strategist, her portfolio of presentations over on SlideShare is well worth visiting as I discovered when I stumbled upon this: Creation Curations Ethics of Content Strategy W2E View more presentations from [...]

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The Reader’s Lament – NYTimes.com

The Reader’s Lament – NYTimes.com Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style.

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Online Style Guide

Online Style Guide The Times Online published a style guide back in 2009, bookmark this page from their archives and make use of it next time you find yourself questioning earned vs earnt, can’t vs cannot, apostrophes and many other issues of English usage.  If your writing is focused on the UK or your preferred [...]

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Citizen Journalism

People Powered News Service Blottr.com Exposes in March Alone, More Than 200 Local Stories That Would Otherwise Have Failed to Gain Mainstream Coverage. Blottr.com, a user generated news site, with a level of street reporting that is changing the way news is being discovered, proving that those at the scene of an event are nearly [...]

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Is 120 the new 140 or is 100 the new 140?

According to my last Twitter search this revelation has been going around the Twitterverse for the last 9 days. The majority vote seems to be going with 120 but  Iconic88 has suggested that “100 is the new 140 for massive retweetlove”, I tend to agree with the “Chief Happiness Officer on Twitter, Friend, Ideas Evangelist, [...]

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Attention mommy bloggers: the FTC isn’t coming after you | Blog | Econsultancy

Attention mommy bloggers: the FTC isn’t coming after you | Blog | Econsultancy The Federal Trade Commission came under fire when it released new disclosure guidelines on sponsorships this fall. Most vocal were bloggers concerned that anyone online could be fined up to $11,000 for disclosure violations. More . . . Blogged with the Flock [...]

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