Mark Frankel
is BBC News social media editor. Twitter: @markfrankel29
Blog posts in total 10
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#Paris: UGC expertise can no longer be a niche newsroom skill
We were as reliant on eyewitnesses when the Boxing Day tsunami hit in 2004 as we were during the Nepal earthquake earlier this year, and in Paris this week.
WDBJ shootings and social media: Time for a new ‘code of conduct’?
The murders of TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward raise pressing questions about the use and misuse of social media. Mark Frankel considers what’s up for discussion.
Journalists on Twitter: Stop shouting, start listening
Yvette Cooper has a point: too many politicians use Twitter like they are "shouting in a train station". Journalists are, quite frankly, just as guilty.
Not every story needs a 'social media makeover'
The challenge is to stop thinking of social media fitting around our existing commitments and recognise that it affords fresh insights and a more immediate relationship with our audience
A smartphone, a good story and a social media plan: #BBCSyriaWar
Mark Frankel went to Beirut to report using only an iPhone, microphone and laptop - as an experiment in new ways of gathering content and using social media
A ‘likes’ milestone for BBC News on Facebook
BBC News’s Facebook page just passed 10 million ‘likes’. While that’s important, what really counts is the audience’s engagement with online BBC content.
#smsldn: How to make highly shareable, highly clickable content
What are the secrets of shareability? At the London Social Media Summit on 16 May, experts from different media organisations offered some telling examples of what worked and what did not.
If you want your first Reddit AMA to make a splash, ask @bbclysedoucet
The wide-ranging AMA thread touched on impartiality, the lives of women in Iran, Canadian accents and being pursued by helicopter gunships in Afghanistan.
Melissa wanted to hangout on Mars - others weren’t so sure
This week saw the first Google hangout that we have organised centrally in BBC News. It had to be a big, bold topic.
A social media swap shop of ideas #smsnyc
This was a Social Media Summit discussion around what social media techniques journalists and news organisations can borrow from the worlds of politics, branding, marketing and advertising.
