Martin Belam talks and presentations
Forthcoming talks
news:rewired - media in motion - I’ll be taking part in a panel on Social Media Optimisation with Nate Lanxon of wired.co.uk, Chris Hamilton of the BBC and Darren Waters from MSN. My focus will be the Guardian’s Facebook app. The event is in London on Friday 3 February, and tickets are £130 (+VAT) - available here.
On Thursday 8 March I’ll be talking at an Arts Marketing Association “Press and PR summit” entitled “A collaborative future for arts and the media?” event at the Museum of London alongside Paul Bradshaw. The afternoon will also feature arts journalists and critics facilitating round-table discussions about how arts organisations, PRs and news organisations can best work together in the digital era. Tickets are £147 +VAT for AMA members or £207 +VAT for non-members and available here.
I’ll be in Minneapolis in May for Confab 2012, where I’ll be talking about giving content a second lease of digital life. The impressive roster of speakers includes Karen McGrane, Dan Roam, Ann Rockley, Kristina Halvorson, Erin Kissane and Lou Rosenfeld. Early bird prices are available until the beginning of March. Tickets are available here.
Previous talks
In 2011 I spoken at several events about the relationship between journalism, technology and audiences. Most of the slides are available on SlideShare, and there are essay versions of the talks on this blog.
- “The IA of /Culture” - EuroIA 2011
- “How the Guardian’s custom CMS & API helped take content strategy to a traditional publisher” - Content Strategy Forum 2011
- “How digital transformed the news cycle - and what you can do about it” - Hacks/Hackers London
- “Information Architects: The Secret librarians of the internet” - LIKE26
- “Changing the Guardian through guerilla usability testing” - UPA 2011 in Atlanta
- “Come as you are - lessons from an IA career” - Polish IA Summit 2011 opening keynote
- “Linked data / Linked stories” - FutureEverything 2011
- “UX Communities: Starting from the beginning” - IA Summit 2011 in Denver
In 2010 I presented “No more us and them: How 20 years of digital communications smashed the boundaries between media and audience” at the UKUPA event for World Usability Day. I also took part in the third news:rewired event in a session looking at linked data and the semantic web. You can watch a video of the session.
I also talked about linked data at the Online Information 2010 conference, presenting “Mapping the Guardian’s tags to the web of data” with our keyword manager Peter Martin.
Talks I’ve given that are published on the Guardian site include “What is the value of Linked Data to the news industry?”, and “Journalism in the digital age: trends, tools and technologies” which I presented at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
I’ve given presentations at three other IA Summits. In 2008 in Miami I presented “IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets”. Later that same year in Amsterdam I presented an overview of site search best practice, drawing examples from around European newspaper websites, which was entitled “Taking the ‘Ooh’ out of Google: Getting site search right”. In 2010 I spoke in Paris about “Implementing ‘Identity’ on Guardian.co.uk.”
Other presentations I have given about search include “Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet” in 2006, and “How search can help you understand your audience” and “A day in the life of BBCi Search”, both from 2003.
And finally, the only presentation on the site with swearing in the title is my 2005 Open Tech talk “Putting a F__k Off Dalek on the BBC Homepage isn’t big or clever.”
