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27 September 2007

LinkedIn and Facebook

There's now an NUJ group on LinkedIn, click here to join.

And NUJ's Facebook group is the biggest union group on Facebook and the union has just had it first Facebook only recruitment, Sushanta Das Gupta, editor of http://www.e-bangladesh.org/. If you're on Facebook, go here to join the NUJ group.

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posted by Donnacha DeLong @ 23:40 0 comments

08 September 2007

Farewell Facebook?

Facebook and employers who ban it at work have been all over the media in the last couple of weeks. I don't think the issue is as widespread as the touted surveys suggest, but I reckon it's getting such good coverage for one main reason... 90% of the UK's journalists are complete Facebook fiends, and they're bricking it that they may have to give up their poking antics too.

I don't think this is too likely though. Journalists are networkers by nature (witness the NUJ group - the biggest of any union group, despite a much smaller membership than unions like Unite), and can often get more of a blind eye turned to the blurs between the cultivation of friend networks and professional networks on and offline than other groups of workers might. I'll eat my Second Life avatar's hat if it ever gets switched off at the Beeb!

Anyway, before you go and practice your "but it's a vital tool of my trade!" plea, check out this guidance for staff about your rights to Facebook, and the correct etiquette for dealing with a friend request from your editor.

In a comedy twist to the issue, one group of banned workers have taken it to its logical conclusion, starting a Facebook group to campaign for Facebook rights reinstatement at Medway Maritime Hospital - a kind of MC Escher recurring issue within an issue.

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posted by John @ 21:25 0 comments

03 July 2007

Get your face in our place!

Will you be the 300th member of the NUJ's Facebook community?

Yes, it's grown extremely quickly and is already at 299 members, organising local get togethers and with a number of discussions underway. Come and chat to us all, before everyone's gran is on Facebook too and we all have to flee to whatever the new flavour of the month is.

(Come on, you're journalists ferchrissakes - We know you all use it!)

And for any hardened Web2.0 cynics still out there, here is a nice little ditty from ad-agency Asabailey, promoting the new social interweb at the fringe of this year's Cannes Ad Festival. (NSFW: Be warned if easily offended, or at work!)

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posted by John @ 12:09 1 comments

12 May 2007

NUJ Social Networking

Have you got a MySpace page? Or are you more of a Facebook person? Or is all of that far too childish for you and you're LinkedIn instead? Whichever you are, the NUJ is there and waiting for you.

On MySpace: http://groups.myspace.com/nujournalists
On FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2310419644
On LinkedIn there aren't groups, but you can just link me - http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnachadelong .

Let's make full use of social networking to build the union - if you've got more suggestions, please add comments.

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posted by Donnacha DeLong @ 23:03 2 comments