Posts Tagged: Social Media

Earlier today, I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to sell my Samsung NC10 as I’ve bought a MacBook Air. I wasn’t really expecting a response, but within minutes, I had an email from somebody interested in it; a few emails later, the funds are in my PayPal account, and my Samsung is ready… Continue Reading ›

There’s been a lot of chatter on Twitter and blogs about Paul Boutin’s Wired article Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004  over the last day or so, but I was most interested in Rory Cellan-Jones’ response Is blogging dead? on the BBC website. Rory clearly believes that blogging is not yet dead and… Continue Reading ›

Thanks to the generosity of my chum Paul Fabretti I was able to attend KMP’s Social Media Marketing seminar earlier this week. There were four talks providing a great introduction to social media and suggestions for ways that businesses can join the conversation. Dave Kinsella started the day with a good introduction to social media.… Continue Reading ›

This isn’t one of those “sorry for not blogging for a while, I’ll be back soon” posts, but it is a distant relative. I rather think that I must be coming down with a case of writer’s block; I just don’t seem to have anything I feel the need to write about at the moment.… Continue Reading ›

Apparently, Bill Gates recently deleted his Facebook profile. I can’t say I blame him, and is now using LinkedIn as his social network of choice. True to the six degrees of separation theory, I am only three degrees away from Bill; I wonder if I should add him to my network? LinkedIn is by far… Continue Reading ›

I’ve worked in two companies now where the idea of a blog has been mooted. I think corporate blogs are, on the whole, a terrible idea. Unless genuinely written by an employee (who says it has to be an executive after all) with ability, charisma, and genuine interest in blogging, they are going to be… Continue Reading ›