Trusting Google and Infographics

by on 27 Apr 2012 in Social media

No sooner had the previous post gone up that I received an email request to share the infographic below.  It took me precisely ten seconds to scan the material before I decided to embed the code. I keep thinking about the increasing influence of the Infographic. Part of me continues to marvel at the human [...]

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Google’s privacy policy for dummies

by on 26 Apr 2012 in Social media

When was the last time you worried about your online data? Or what Facebook and Google do with the content we create on their platforms? Most of us don’t read the fine print and rely on others to ‘mediate’ what the recent privacy changes mean. The video below is Google trying to explain what Google [...]

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Why social media will continue to challenge and frustrate businesses of old

by on 21 Mar 2012 in Facebook, Social media

A few years ago, when I’d suggest that social media would disrupt many business models and core organisational functions, I would wait for the first eyebrow in the audience to get raised.  I’d explain how corporates would eventually need to migrate from one-way, top-down, broadcast marketing channels of their choice to multi-directional social engagement on [...]

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Curation is the new attention

by on 17 Mar 2012 in Social media

My favourite curation site is Brain Pickings. It’s a labour of love, quirky, informative. It was via Brain Pickings that I came across the video I have embedded in this blog. In the old days, I would have bookmarked the link, using Diigo, perhaps. But I wanted to store it somewhere I could find it. [...]

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Say Everything

by on 19 Feb 2012 in Academic, Blogging, Social media

Say Everything is one of my favourite books.  Not just because it covers the history of blogging, which is at the core of my doctoral research – but also because it encapsulates the empowerment we associate with the read/write web:  freedom from intermediaries, access to the modern equivalent of a private printing press, the right [...]

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A conversation about social media strategy

by on 21 Oct 2011 in Social media

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Joakim Nilsson skyped me for a late night chat on the read/write web and social media strategy. I know.. I should have shaved, put the lights on and stopped waving my hands. But it was late.

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We all need a Steve Jobs

by on 06 Oct 2011 in Technology

We knew it was coming. And yet, in the same way we all mentally pretend that we will be spared from our inevitable passing, it was still a shock, as the news filtered in via that old and resilient of media, the radio and the BBC World Service. I was driving my son to school, [...]

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Managing Information overload

by on 29 Jul 2011 in Getting organised, Social media

Tools for managing and curating online information are available. We just need to understand which to use, and when!

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Social media and banking

by on 15 May 2011 in Social media

Social media has yet to disrupt the banking sector. Perhaps it’s time for banks to go back to their websites and start thinking social for a change.

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Social Media for Business: debunking some myths

by on 30 Mar 2011 in Blogging, Facebook, SME Social Media Marketing, Social media, Twitter

Debunking social media myths. And 15 social media facts.

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