Digital Editors' Network

If integrating social media and user generated content into your news operation is on your agenda, don't miss the Winter DEN meeting on 12 May in Preston. Robin Goad , research director for the online market intelligence company Hitwise, will present How can online publishers utilize User Generated Content (UGC) . User Generated Content (UGC) is a key growth area online, and social networks now attract 1 in 5 Internet page views in the UK. In this presentation, Robin will describe the digital content landscape in the UK, discuss the popularity of UGC (User Generated Content) brands (e.g Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia) - and compare some of their content strategies to those of top online publishing brands. Patrick Altoft , managing partner at Branded3 , a Leeds-based full service digital agency. Patrick will take a practical look at the role search engine optimisation plays in social media marketing. Nick Turner , head of digital content for the CN Group, on Opening the doors to the...

An unedited recording of the 11th Forum on the 3rd of February 2009 is available at http://breeze01.uclan.ac.uk/p94126209/ . Diary note: 12th Forum and Digital Editors Network meeting is scheduled for 12th May as part of the Spring seminar of the Journalism Leaders Programme at UClan.

An exciting range of high profile speakers have been lined-up for the Winter meeting of the Digital Editors’ Network on February 3 rd . The free event at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston will include: An insight into the digital transformation of the Daily Telegraph when Mark Skipworth , executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph gives the University’s Harris Lecture. A discussion about how newspapers can best make use of their archives in the digital age with a presentation by Patrick Fleming , head of reader and reference services at the British Library. He has been the driving force behind its newspaper strategy which has already seen digitization of more than three million pages of searchable content from national and regional newspapers. Patrick has edited three regional daily newspapers at Bournemouth, Southampton and Oxford and worked extensively in digital media. The Q&A session will be led by blogger and social media specialist Suw Charma...

Here's one of the ideas that was aired at our Digital Editor's Forum: A gallery of criminals adding 60,000 page impressions a month See the gallery at the News & Star See the write of the idea by Laura Oliver at http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/532497.php Get more ideas like this at the next Digital Editors' Network on February 3rd. Nick

You'll find useful links and a the chance to watch video of the Journalism Leaders Forum here The event took place on the same day as our Digital Editors Network meeting and featured Steve Yelvington , Stephen Gray , Kevin Anderson , Simon Reynolds , Jane Singer and François Nel discussing what hard times are teaching media decision-makers about the way forward.

Thanks to everyone who turned out to our successful meeting on Tuesday. We had around 30 people for the legal briefing which kicked off the Digital Editors' Network meeting. Notes and video to follow. Sarah Hartley has highlighted dangers of linking in her notes on the meeting over on her blog Next meeitng is Feb 3rd

Digital Editor's Network Legal Briefing Oct 7th What legal risks are newspapers and media organisations taking as they expand on to an ever increasing array of new media platforms? Blogs, comment boards, forums, digital archives, links to third party content and the speed of breaking news online are all providing us with fresh legal challenges as we straddle the divide between traditional media and online communities. I am pleased to say that we will be having some high profile speakers from media law experts Wiggin LLP at our next meeting on October 7th to look at some of these issues. Caroline Kean, Wiggin’s head of litigation, will lead the discussion at the Digital Editors’ Network meeting at UCLan in Preston.Caroline is a vastly experienced media lawyer who acts for national and regional newspapers, magazines, book publishers, television and film companies. She has been acclaimed as one of the UK's top female solicitors and is vice president of the Media Society and legal...