Social media can help 'old media' get better

Thursday, 11 December 2008, 14:26 | Category : News, Social Media
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With the monitoring and analysis of social media by the journalists and analysts of the ‘old media’ we are seeing a vast improvement in the coverage of international news – especially when it comes to understanding the cultural, economic and political background.
There is a very good reason why. ‘Old media’ either have a correspondent in [...]

Greeks use social media to organise protest

Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 13:02 | Category : News
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The Greeks have been using social media like blogs, twitter, friendfeed and facebook as well as e-mails and SMS messages to organise a peaceful sitting protest in front of the Greek House of Parliament today.
The Greek social media scene has been boiling for days now. The blogs started by discussing alleged police brutality and the [...]