Two interesting Slideshare slideshows to share.
First, the MEN’s Sarah Hartley has shared her round up of what the UK regional press is doing on the web

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And Read/Write web give us their take on the next big social trends online

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Via Steve Garfield

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Isn’t Twitter great? As well as the very entertaining toon theme Friday that Paul B got started last week (kudos Paul) I picked up this page of advice to company/PR type people on “what they should be monitoring” from the masterful Mark Comerford.
In some respects this strikes me as one of those issues like quality [...]

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Corey Bergman at Lost Remote highlighted a Wall Street Journal piece about large portal sites looking to niche sites for talent.
“Big Internet companies such as MSN and Yahoo have small teams whose job it is to ‘discover’ these smaller sites before their competition does. They scan the Web, attend industry conferences and hobnob with start-ups [...]

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I tell my students to try and avoid pun headlines on the web. Physician heal thyself as they say.
I thought I would give a higher profile to a comment on my post about Jay Rosen left by Oliver Luft from Journalism.co.uk. He was at the Journalism Leaders forum and used his nifty stereo recordergramme device [...]

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After listening to a panel discussion on local journalism Jay Rosen says that the UK is two years behind the US when it comes to collaborative journalism.
It got me thinking about why.
Jay was one of the panel at the 7th Journalism Leaders Forum held at the Department of Journalism. The topic for discussion was [...]

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A great video from CommonCraft that explains  social networking (via Robin Hamman)
This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

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