Social Media

A collection of 14 posts

The troll rules have changed. Or have they?

There’s a lot of talk about trolling at the moment but just because someone shouts about wanting to kill you, it doesn’t mean their actual goal is a murder. It’s attention — and trying to quiet everyone in the world who’s after attention is going to take

Jul 31, 2013

Posts

Facebook - What a difference a day makes

Yesterday I was just thinking about going back to retroactively add in my technology history to my Facebook timeline after a comment from a Wired reader declared that technology journalists should make theirs public to provide context to their articles. Of course, I was going to set it as private

Sep 25, 2012 2 min read

Posts

Facebook should update its concept of 'Friends'

[https://i0.wp.com/farm1.static.flickr.com/213/451861781_0245fd6060.jpg] With its IPO now public, Facebook is about to enter something of dark zone for announcements – a move which will no doubt leave a void for speculation and rumour among tech writers. So I thought I might jump

Feb 26, 2012 2 min read

Posts

How do I filter tweets from TweetDeck?

We’ve all seen it – it’s one of those days. A “trender”. Something you have little to no interest in (Big Brother, X Factor, Cricket) will now litter your feed tweet after tweet, with no end in sight. Once you’ve heard that Steve Jobs is on the way

Aug 25, 2011 1 min read

odds and sods

What happens to social profiles after you die?

For a while, the topic of what happens to your social media presence after you die [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/death-and-social-media-what-happens-to-your-life-online.ars] has been something of a quandary, with graveyards of Facebook profiles and ceased Twitter accounts littering the web. But in a particularly poignant recent example

May 10, 2011 1 min read

Quora

Why Quora will be a slow burner success

There may be no service on Earth full of as much spurious misinformation, confusion and doubt as Yahoo Answers. There’s a sense of 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters with the occasional answer breaking for freedom with a whisper of welcome sanity. By contrast, I think Quora has more potential

Jan 31, 2011 2 min read

Foursquare

Location alone gets you nowhere

As if making sure @DannyWhatmough [http://www.twitter.com/dannywhatmough] never becomes Mayor of Wildfire PR wasn’t enough, I’ve actually found real value from Foursquare here and there. In the first example, I checked into a bar and was quickly called by an old friend I hadn’t

Jan 26, 2011 2 min read

Quora

Quora and the big "what if"

I’m reliably informed that every day, Google serves about 3 billion searches [http://www.quora.com/How-many-search-queries-does-Google-serve-worldwide-every-day?q=How+many+google+searches] globally. I didn’t count that myself but I’m taking it on good authority. But what if instead, every query was saved as a unique page

Jan 7, 2011 2 min read

Humour

Social Media: the Talk

<< Originally a guest post for the Social Collective blog [http://www.social-collective.com/2010/08/24/guest-post-%E2%80%9Cthe-talk%E2%80%9D/#comments] , stumbled upon it while Googling and decided it deserves to be here too >> [https://i0.wp.com/www.social-collective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Max-illustration.jpg]

Dec 21, 2010 2 min read

followfriday

The truth behind Follow Friday

A jolly little cartoon [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/follow_friday] just popped up in my Twitter feed (thanks @lewsisshields [http://twitter.com/lewisshields]) making an entertaining point about the Follow Friday phenomenon- namely that nobody ever follows the people suggested in such tweets. But actually I think this kind of

Dec 10, 2010 2 min read

Public Relations

Sustainable Social Media: A Manifesto

<< Crossposted from my post on the official Wildfire PR [http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/] blog. Because I like it. >> If one thing has become clear in the last few weeks, it’s that everyone loves the Old Spice guy. He sprung out of nowhere, posted some clever YouTube videos [http:

Aug 6, 2010 2 min read

marketing

Old Spice: Swan Dive or Cannonball?

By now, you’ll have seen the excellent recent Old Spice ads [http://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice] as well as the ingenious @oldspice [http://twitter.com/oldspice] followup campaign. But the thing is, as good as they are, its not going to make me buy old spice. And I

Jul 16, 2010 2 min read

followfriday

Follow Friday - 18 Sept 09

Some telecoms examples for today's Follow Friday blog post. Enjoy… @guyatcarphone [http://twitter.com/guyatcarphone] – Among generally worthwhile tweets, there are also interesting updates on cellular reception as the network inevitably collapses around the country. A good idea and worth having on the roster just in case. Example Tweet: > Carphone

Sep 18, 2009 1 min read

Social Media

Are you Content not to Contend with Content?

Had a conversation with a colleague about Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/maxtb] today. She was claiming that you can’t say anything worthwhile in 140 characters, a suggestion made by many that I’ve tried to explain the popular microblog to. I’d argue it depends what you’re

Jun 23, 2009 1 min read

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