Tallyman

When I was an officer in the Union of Students in Ireland I was working on a participation manual for students’ union to help increase student involvement. This manual was in partnership with our colleagues in NUS – the UK national students’ union. When I left it seemed to fall off USI’s radar. Admittedly social [...]

Spurred on by a post on the blog of Spot On Public Relations I was curious to find out what comparison could be made between readership figures in Ireland and the social networking site Facebook and I have to say I am surprised, even more surprised by the numbers when compared against the tabloids. Let us [...]

Social media sites have short attention spans when it comes to news items on the agenda of the mainstream media, according to a new study. The ‘New Media, Old Media’ report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) suggests that on blogs 53 per cent of lead stories in a given [...]

Via A University Blog. the Kevin Denny research on the impact of the third level free fees initiative has been published. Makes for interesting reading. Labour, Sinn Fein, and the Green Party needs to take heed and let us end this madness so we can fund our third level institutions appropriately. Also, I am quite [...]

This is taken from a mates blog, who, incidentally, I have lots of time and respect for as a music and arts Journalist – and he always makes me laugh. These were his rules for our writers in the College View for album reviews, and, being a tad draconian, (I am the Editor) – they [...]