Latest Articles
The Community Glue
Penny Power, Founder of Ecademy, looks at Community Managers and what they can do to help their Social network survive.
moreMore Everything - The Ofcom 2008 Report
UK consumers are spending more time on communications than ever before but paying less for the privilege, according to UK telecoms watchdog, Ofcom.
moreParents Fear For Networked Kids
Internet experts have called on social network sites to do more to protect children as a survey reveals that three-quarters (72 per cent) of parents spy on their children.
more- Brief Encounter: Richard Mower, PocketSurfer
- Approaching the Crossover
- The Cleverest Thing That Never Existed
- Book Review: Bringing Nothing to the Party
- Marketers Cautious Over Social Media Spend
- Brief encounter: Steve Pammenter, MD, WhiteLabelDating.com
- Business Sites Handicapping SEO
Related Articles
YDA Awards Open for Entries
The Y Design Awards (YDA), part of London Design Festival, is now open for entries. Covering nine categories, the awards recognise excellence in the UK’s digital creative industries at a designer level. more
Bloggers Face Jail
A new report has revealed how governments around the world are continuing to clamp down on bloggers. Bloggers risk facing jail by governments which feel threatened by the growing influence of bloggers according to the World Information Access (WIA) report by the University of Washington. more
Bloggers Lost in Legal Fog
On May 28, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 laws will come into force and cause some corporations to reassess their use of social media marketing techniques. more
Influencers... Don't?
A recent study from Canadian research group, Pollara, could prove to be a rude awakening for marketers keen to exploit social media as a channel for pushing brand messages. According to the study, so called social media influencers may not have as much sway as marketers thought them to. more
Most Senior Tech Execs Blog
The merits of business blogging are still widely debated amongst those that operate in the online space and their offline contemporaries. However, a new worldwide survey by Eurocom Worldwide, the global PR network, in association with UK member agency, Six Degrees, has found that the majority (53 per cent) of senior technology execs contribute to a blog. more
Related Events
Beers & Innovation 12: Clients in the Wild
Location: The CC Club, The Trocadero, London
Price: Reduced to £25.00 if you are eligible for a discount.
AOP Forum: Podcasting - What's The Point?
Location: 3rd floor, Queens House, 55-56 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Price: £40.00 Reduced to £20.00 if you are eligible for a discount.
Blogs Move Up UK Publishers' Agenda
StumbleUponPublishers' blogs and user-generated content (UGC) have debuted on the Association of Online Publishers' annual Awards shortlist. With UGC rocketing, the online publishing industry are using blogs and community-driven content to boost their proposition...
Publishers’ blogs and user-generated content (UGC) have debuted on the Association of Online Publishers’ (AOP) annual Awards shortlist. With UGC moving centre stage, blogs and community-driven content are increasingly being used by the online publishing industry to boost its proposition...[Register and post your own comments on this article below...]
Q4Music.com’s blog (www.Q4music.com/blog) published by Emap Performance Interactive, The Guardian blogs (http://blogs.Guardian.co.uk), the BBC’s London bombs amateur video footage on its BBC News Player (www.BBC.co.uk/news), and VNU Business Publications’ Newsgator aggregation tool (www.VNUNet.com/Newsgator) have all been shortlisted in the Innovation category of the AOP Online Publishing Awards 2005.
Commercial innovation clustering around blogs
Alexandra White, director of AOP, commented: “The sheer breadth and diversity of the 2005 shortlist is testament to the degree of editorial - and commercial - innovation and creativity, which is happening in the UK online publishing industry at the moment.”
The inclusion of blogs and user generated content to this year’s shortlist is a reflection of a growing acceptance by the UK’s premier publishers towards harnessing more user-generated and community-driven content within their online propositions.
Also shortlisted in the category were www.Blinkx.tv, AdGenie on www.AutoExpress.co.uk by Dennis Interactive, the Sun Online TV Video News on TheSun.co.uk, and The Scotsman’s online archive (www.archive.scotsman.com).
Event-led websites also shine
The AOP Awards, now in its fourth year, has been established as a showcase of the most innovative and high-quality online content in the UK. Some 220 entries were received for the prestigious Awards, which will be presented at a celebratory dinner on 7 October at the London Hilton Park Lane, following the AOP Online Publishing Conference 2005, themed Content Matters.
The 2005 shortlist also features some of the best UK event-led websites from the past year, such as UKRadioAid (www.UKRadioaid.com), the BBC’s Olympics (www.BBC.co.uk/Olympics) and Proms (www.BBC.co.uk/proms) websites, and Reuters’ Interactive TV Channel, all featuring substantial video coverage, as well as several products aimed at the mobile market, such as Dennis’ Maxim Mobile and The Wall Street Journal for Blackberry.
AOP is holding a forum for publishers on blogs and user-generated content on the afternoon of 21 September, featuring case studies from Associated New Media, the BBC, Caspian Publishing and Menshealth.
For more information about the AOP Conference, Awards or forums in 2005, visit www.ukaop.org.uk/awards or email Lisa Quinlan Rahman at: events@ukaop.org.uk or call 020 7400 7532.
About the AOP:
The UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is an industry body representing online publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content. AOP champions the interests of approximately 160 publishing companies including newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting, and pure online media. Together they publish around 1,150 products and attract more than five billion page impressions per month. AOP presents a unified voice to industry and Government,specifically to address issues and concerns relating to all areas of online publishing. AOP publishes original research, hosts forums, conferences and events, covering a range of topics from paid-for-content, subscription models and data protection, through to copyright, content management, new technologies and audience measurement. www.ukaop.org.uk
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee.
Reg. No: 977818 England. Reg. Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
© 2008 New Media Knowledge.
Site created by Green on Black and designed by Imagination
Comments
You must be logged in to comment.