"We all know what SoLoMo means.." said Sarah Hartley, a guest speaker at the Digital Editor's Network, this week. As far as I was aware, it was just the unwieldly hashtag of the day's events, but fortunately she spelled it out anyway - Social Local Mobile.
This is the field that the publishing and journalism industries are moving more and more toward as new technology and innovations allows them to change the platform through which they connect to their audiences. Hartley's project, n0tice, is such an example that satisfies each component of the SoLoMo idea. An online notice board, brings together a social community, dependent on their location, which can be accessed mobilely.
Other notable examples from the day were Sky Tyne and Wear, an online broadcasting platform servicing a much smaller, more specific area than many of the national and regional presses, and Help Me Investigate, an online community being set up to crowdsource investigative journalism.
Interesting fact of the day: throughout Africa, mobile phone internet has leap-frogged its stationary brother, because of a low penetration of computers on the continent.
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