Simple language is best
I ran a training session just before I went on sabbatical on various social media bits and pieces, showing people how to use search engines to find key phrases – amongst many other things. Over the...
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Chris (and Tom and Damian) came to visit this weekend, and as is inevitable when {heavy irony} social media gurus {/heavy irony} come together, we brainstormed new business concepts. Well, maybe not...
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Google +1 in JetPack / WordPress
I requested JetPack support the new Google +1 recommendation engine from the Automattic team this morning and it’s already being considered for future updates by a happiness engineer! Aren’t they nice?
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Interaction with brands on Twitter
I’ve tweeted at a few brands recently to satisfy my blog-curiosity about one thing or the other. @amazonuk to ask about packaging, @mini to point out that its website wasn’t working properly in...
View ArticleFrench gov’t bans mentions of social networks by name on radio
I love this: How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where French officials have banned any mention of them unless they are...
View ArticleTop social media tools #smday
As today is apparently "social media day" and as I’ve done this meme before, I thought I’d give a quick update on my most indispensable social media resources, with a little bit on how, why and where I...
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Google nonplussed
It looks good and has some very slick features, but until it opens to the general public and we get a sense if anyone cares, it’s really difficult to tell if Google’s new social network, Google+, is...
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On Google+ and Facebook
So I love the concept of Circles, but Google+ isn’t quite there for me yet. Here’s why not: 1) No APIs yet, so no limited extensibility and hard to work into my social media syndication strategy – I...
View ArticleMano a mano in el bano
A brief interlude for some marketing japery – Old Spice Guy was challenged to an Internet Duel by New Old Spice Guy, Fabio. He accepted and the Duel took place yesterday at the Interwebs Stadium....
View ArticleRandom adds on Google+
I’m not really sure what’s going on with Google+ at the moment. Whilst I like the interface, my inability to simply syndicate posts to it (via Tweetdeck or anything else), the limited number of "Real...
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On refining my Facebook circles
The advent of Google+ has had me thinking about my Facebook friends list – I have over 500 people on there and anyone who knows me well will tell you that I’m not that popular. But years of adding...
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Yamtastic – investigating Yammer
I persuaded some colleagues to try Yammer a few years ago and it didn’t really go anywhere. The enterprise collaboration tool that works like the corporate lovechild of Facebook and Twitter, however,...
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Taunting the SEO and social media people with the undead
Working at a PR agency and consulting on how people can interact with bloggers and their ilk has always given me a bit more patience, and occasionally respect for the people that pitch me for one...
View ArticleCharlie Stross on ‘true naming’– and Google+
I hadn’t really considered the full implications of Google+’s “true naming” policy, but Charlie has the issues mapped out perfectly here. To start with, as Patrick McKenzie pointed out in his blog last...
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The Facebook experiment
Given the open-ness and superior sharing controls of Google+ I’ve started the process of thinning down my Facebook friends list – this is partially an attempt to regain some sense of personal freedom...
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