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Lessons from today's Budget coverage

March 24, 2010 Innovation

Today’s early UK Budget coverage was interesting at multiple levels. Last year everyone pretty much settled on #budget09 as the Twitter hashtag. This year, HM Government used #budget10 but many wanted to use #budget2010. That caused some confusion but it didn’t worry CoverItLive which can aggregate a good number of hashtags. Outside of mainstream media, [...]

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Budget09: the tech take and lessons learned

April 22, 2009 General

The UK 2009, Budget is the first time that many of the modern media technologies have been used in anger. As I write this, the casting of the runes among the experts has yet to be fully played out but a few preliminary observations can be made. It was clear the general media had grasped [...]

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Budget UK 2009: live coverage

April 21, 2009 Featured

<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=9791e8ba07″ >Budget 2009</a> Tomorrow is Budget Day UK and I’ll be using CoverItLive (above) to capture the action across multiple channels. Coverage starts at 1pm UK time when when we’ll have the news channels and pundits putting out their predictions. This is possibly the most important Budget in recent UK history so please feel [...]

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