No it is not my weekend activities but rather a reference to the 7 deadly sins of social media article published by James Clark co-founder of Room 214 and featured on their website called capture the conversation It is worth a read and I am sure that very few involved in the area of social media can...
The BNP membership list story is all over the national press today, but online there is another spin to the story as one blogger has taken the list and made a Google Maps mashup of the data. The list was published after it was leaked on various websites and can now found on several including Bittorrent...
I apologise for the sweeping generalisations in this article because I’m not going to report facts or figures, I just want to voice an opinion based on my observations. The recent fuss made over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross' prank calls highlighted the incredible divide between generations; on...
This is an historic week. There's no doubt that Barack Obama's election as President of the US marks a turning point in American, if not, global politics. His victory is testament to the 'American Dream' (Barack's own words ) as well as to the nature of democracy in the US. It has...
Good piece in the New York Times today on how "the layoff will be blogged". It picks up on how this downturn is more public than any before it with bloggers covering not only each other's but their own departures as well. Oddly, and dispiritingly, some people are even reading about their...
An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's already been an avalanche written about...
There are so many ways to follow the US election tonight, but one proving really popular is Twitter. Twittervotereport.com gives constant updates from across the US while the polls are open including the current length of queues, which has been one eye opening features of this very exciting US election...
Jemima Kiss in the Guardian today picked up on an interesting angle going on in the Social Media monitoring world which Brand Republic’s mini threads of comment remain oblivious to. As the BBC story around Russell and Ross exploded over the past week or so, their websites haven’t. As complaints on the...
Final bit from the Future of Social Media Conference, Chris Davies, digital marketing manager from BA, was good on the challenges that new media marketers can face internally and he did with the world's (sometime) favourite airline. Bit of an update also on its new social media site (MetroTwin.com...
More bullets from today's Future of Social Media Conference. Got to say one thing though everyone is talking about Twitter. All the speakers have brought Twitter up. Martin Verdon-Roe, sales director TripAdvisor. He had one piece of very good advice that is worth repeating: participate. If people...
