How was #London2012 for you: Scotland, Ireland, England and GB?

For those of you intrigued by the digital lunch format, but not really that grabbed by the subject matter, here is something that might interest you… Tomorrow morning myself and the Scottish thinker cum singer, Pat Kane (he of Hue and Cry) will be talking about the London Olympics and what they mean for all of us, Irish, Scottish, English, and British. Starts at 10pm… If you can make it, give us your comments, questions and extended thoughts below? Mick …

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Tomorrow’s #Digital Lunch: Can digital journalism be commercially valuable?

Yep, programme number three in an evolving series… Not only is it to be kindly hosted by UTV in Belfast, but our first special guest interviewee will be the TV station’s MD, Michael Wilson… We’ll kick off by looking at the vexed issue of how to extract commercial value out of digital journalism and segway into looking at other new commercial responses to a steadily digitising world… If you do want to join live panel you are welcome, but you …

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Slugger’s Digital lunch (2), on the eve of the London Olympics…

So at 1pm (BST) we’ll be ‘broadcasting live’ via YouTube (and here) our second Slugger’s Digital Lunch…  Last week, we had Lee Reynolds of the DUP (you can pick up the YouTube here).  I hope we will have even more voices this week. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ To participate, you must be on Google Plus. That may take a little of time and working out, but if you already use Skype you’ll have most of the hardware you need to make …

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