Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston’s death last Saturday the story was on Twitter.
Posts Tagged 'Social Networking'
Tradition dictates, in my last missive of the year, that I review the technology predictions I made in my first post of January. Unfortunately, it seems to have been deleted, so I’ll have to stick to what actually happened instead!
Today Google kindly asked me if I’d like to try Google Buzz, the new social networking feature it has bolted onto Gmail, its popular free email service.
The last thing I’m inclined to do right now is join another time consuming social network!
According to web monitoring company, Compete, traffic to the micro-blogging website Twitter has flat-lined, suggesting its world dominance may not be so assured.
Today, many are blaming the lack of salt grit for bringing the economy to a standstill, leaving many workers snowed in and unable to work.
But is it really the lack of salt grit that’s to blame?
I was doing my usual catch up on blogs over the weekend and I was amazed at how many social media commentators rarely mentioned any other marketing channel.
We’ve got a good few years of working in social media under our belts – do we still think social media is the be-all and end-all?
Jan Moir, The Daily Mail and the influence of social media
October 19th, 2009Category: Birmingham, Home, Online PR, Online Reputation, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
Boy did Jan Moir learn a lesson about social media this weekend. A stark reminder of the effectiveness of social networking for galvanising public opinion around particular issues, in this case homophobia and bad journalism!
Run for your lives: Facebook goes all Twitter
July 6th, 2009Category: Birmingham, Home, Online PR, Online Reputation, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
So Facebook is turning into Twitter? Right listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: disable your Facebook account immediately and run for cover before they put all your profile content on display for everyone to see.
But hold on just a minute. In the words of another great drama queen, calm down dear.
In fact what Facebook are doing is changing their business model to include public content sharing, profile ‘fans’ and real-time search (these are the headline grabbers).
Is this a good thing?
