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Posted by Christine in Uncategorized on 02 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Pete’s painful career path

I was in my final year at uni studying Media Arts in London and obviously I was hoping the course would lead into working in the media, although doing what – I had no idea. Serious accident On a mate’s 21st birthday in Blackpool I unfortunately threw myself down the stairs of a local B&B [...]

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Posted by Christine in Uncategorized on 06 28th, 2010 | No Comments

A roving reporter’s toolkit

A list of the tools Guardian Beat Blooger Hannah Waldram uses: Technology Laptop Handheld video camera Smartphone Gorillapod Wires Delicious Google reader and calendar Trendsmap Twitter Live blogging/streaming Cover It Live Scribble Live Bambuser Video YouTube Vimeo 12 Seconds Qik Video Audio AudioBoo SoundCloud Audacity Pictures Flickr Twitpic Text Scribd Open data My Society Many Eyes [...]

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Posted by Christine in Uncategorized on 08 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Success for ‘writing for social media’ workshop

With the aim of sharing some of our writing knowledge gained at places like the BBC, ITV, Yahoo!, AOL, Magic FM and Heat, my fellow editor Sue Keogh from Sookio and I gave a workshop as part of the Social Media Week London conference. Our session covered: how to write a killer headline crafting tweets to [...]

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Posted by Christine in Uncategorized on 06 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Crocstar’s copy services

Crocstar Media is a copywriting agency that helps website designers and developers put great content into the sites they’re building. Need a hand getting your clients to provide the copy? Crocstar can help with the collection, spring cleaning and sprucing up of content. Web copy works best when you use simple language to sell crisp [...]

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