Tweetcamp London – Beyond 140 Characters
The recent Tweetcamp event was organised by Farhan Rehman (@farhan), Dees Chinniah (@cyberdees), and Jon Bishop (@jonin60seconds), I just ran around with a microphone on the day, and chatted with...
View ArticleThe Social Media Business Case?
Yesterday I joined Steve Lamb, Neville Hobson and a host of speakers at Dell’s B2B Social Media Huddle event. It’s always a bit nerve wracking taking to the stage after Neville and Steve, but good for...
View ArticleIt’s The Phone – Even in Crisis Comms
Back in June I wrote a post: “Twitter to Replace the Phone?” - suggesting that Twitter isn’t just another marketing channel, but it is a communications channel that may end up as important as the...
View ArticleSocial Media Week London
Roll up roll up, it is Social Media Week. Obviously every week is social media week these days, but this is an extra special series of events all around the world. First of all, by way of full...
View ArticlePeople to People – Like Minds
I’m literally just back from the Like Minds conference in Exeter. I say I’m back, but between the ongoing conversations on Twitter and the comment exchanges on the flickr photos it does feel a little...
View ArticleDigital Mission – SXSWi Here We Come
Digital Mission, Round 5, starts this week. That means I’m off to join over 17,000 of the world’s Interactive/Digital industry folks at SXSW for Digital Mission to SXSWi ’10, together with 40 of the...
View ArticleBusiness to Business Social Media – DellB2B Huddle
Photo with thanks to Mel Carson of Microsoft AdvertisingAt Dell’s second Business to business social media event, Neville Hobson gave a great overview of the current status quo in social media. My...
View ArticleA Year in Business – Orange Business Live
Amsterdam is a handy place for Orange Business Services to have an event – not so much because it’s one of the most connected hubs in Europe, but because the place is swathed in orange! It feels like...
View ArticleSocial Media at a Business Event – But Why?
Last week I spent a few days with a number of other bloggers at Orange Business Services at their Orange Business Live event. From my perspective, bringing a team of outside bloggers into a key...
View ArticleIs Ghost Blogging Ethical?
This is part 1 of 4 in a series of posts inspired by Steve Farnsworth. I was nudged to join in by Steve Lamb (his post is up already), and so here I am, blogging about the ethics and issues of Ghost...
View ArticleSocial For Internal Comms – Social Media Workplace
A lively panel here today at the Social Media Workplace conference. The afternoon panel on Social Media for employee communications lead to a lively discussion. The panel consisted of:Jenni Wheller,...
View ArticleSocial Business – Beyond Social Commercials
At the end of 2011, during an interview at the Social Workplace Conference, in London one of the questions posed to me was “what conversations would you like to be having about social media in the work...
View ArticleSocial Media and the Growing Business
Recently I had the pleasure of joining a round table discussion on the future of Social Media for Small and Medium Business, hosted by Dell and chaired by Neville Hobson - you can read the post on his...
View ArticleThe Power of Crowds – We Will Gather
One area that Social Media has revolutionised more than any other is crowdsourcing. It was one of the communication shifts that prompted the foundation of Redcatco, and was the topic of my talk at the...
View ArticleSocial Media – Giving Introverts a Chance in the Workplace?
This post is, at least in part, triggered by a guest post on Vicky Beeching’s cybersoul blog: Introverts, extroverts, and why Twitter is like Narnia. The post is by Tanya Marlow, and she brings a...
View ArticleGoodbye Posterous
Today is Posterous’s last day. Posterous started in July 2008 and was a great and easy way to share short-form blog content, and it rapidly became popular. In fact so popular that Twitter acquired it...
View ArticleBusiness to Business Marketing – The b2bhuddle Event
This is from a Storify created via an iPad (if you haven’t used Storify before, do check it out – it’s a great way to curate content from across social platforms). I’ve used it to pick out some key...
View ArticleWordPress 3.9 and BuddyPress 2.0
The last week has seen two big updates for some of the core platforms that we support. The long expected WordPress 3.9 release is now out, and the BuddyPress team have release version 2.0 of their...
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