Citizen Journalism and Social Media

Interviewer: Sarah Helen Mageean, third year journalism student at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Interviewee: Chiara Bolognini Social Media Manager, Online Journalist, Professional Marketer & Communicator, founder of Blomap.com and owner at Swissite International Sarah: What is your opinion on citizen journalism? Chiara: I am launching an international social network for citizen... Read more

Social Media Marketing Strategy

Jason Falls wrote a very interesting article on Social Media Today about the reason why Social Media Purists won’t last. He was aware that replies to its critical approach to the Social Media industry could have been many and strong. As he said, he was expecting his social media friends to curse him. Nevertheless all comments he approved were positively reacting to his position. Were there negative... Read more

Blomap – a short introduction

Blomap is a global social network and a UGC project (User Content Generated) based on Maps and Blogs. By joining Blomap the new members get a personal space where they can build their own map, save locations from a global map, mark their points of interest, share and post wishes, reviews, pictures, videos, audios, events. The privacy filters available anytime user uploads, embeds or posts content enable... Read more

The future plans for Blomap

Blomap has to be considered as an “undo” project as many User Generated Content projects are. The reason for that is to continously adapt to users’ needs. General usability improvements will be done very often according to users’ needs and requests. Listening to users is actually one of the main effort Blomap is going to make. One of next Blomap’s projects is to create... Read more