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Who owns social media? Again.

By + on February 21, 2011 in Business, corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

Who owns social media? The answer is nobody, because it’s the wrong question. Or rather it’s far too simple a question. That was one reason why Benjamin Ellis ’won’ the Social Media Week debate that I took part in on ‘Who owns social media, PR, SEO, marketing, digital?‘ He won because he wasn’t trying to win it. [...]

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Top 10 PR and social media blog posts of 2010

By + on December 21, 2010 in Business, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

These are the top 10 public relations (PR) and social media blog posts of 2010 on this blog: Android vs. iPhone vs. BlackBerry – the users infographic – This one shouldn’t really be in the list as it’s not strictly about PR or social media, but I’ve left it on as it’s a good example [...]

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You can’t rely on the cloud – farewell Delicious

By + on December 17, 2010 in Business, public relations, social media

Yesterday’s news that Yahoo is closing down Delicious, as well as other web 2.0 properties it has acquired over the years, is a great example of why you can’t rely on the cloud. It appears that Yahoo has looked at the services in its portfolio that I’ve actually used or like and then got rid [...]

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Can Twitter improve equality in the workplace?

By + on August 27, 2010 in Business, social media, Social Networks

A line in Amelia Torode’s latest blog post got me thinking about how social media and social networks could have an important role to play in improving equality in the workplace. Despite a raft of legislation the UK’s employment landscape is far from equal and the gap between pay and opportunities between men and women [...]

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Social media newsroom X Factor at Communicate corporate communications conference

By + on May 4, 2010 in Business, corporate communications, Media, public relations, Reputation Management, social media, Technology

I attended Communicate Magazine’s Social Media in a Corporate Context conference last week and sat on the ‘judging’ panel for a session which aimed to examine social media newsrooms in the style of an X Factor audition. The other ‘judges’ were Ruth Sunderland (Business Editor of The Observer) and Sam Proctor (Director of Emerging Media, [...]

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Labour iPhone app boosts voter contact

By + on April 28, 2010 in Business, Politics, Self Promotion, social media, Social Networks

It looks like all reporting of new media innovation in the election campaign by the MSM is now being seen through the same yellow prism of all their other reporting i.e. look for things that make the Liberal Democrats look good/bad and get it in the paper. In the last week we’ve seen breathless reporting [...]

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Business and politics don’t mix – who you trying to kid?

By + on April 27, 2010 in Business, Politics, public relations

Tonight I went along to my very first Bootlaw event – and it was brilliant. Danvers Baillieu and Barry Vitou ran a great session on ‘Social Media Attacks’. If you’ve never been to a Bootlaw session I’d highly recommend you do. In business some people think it’s a big taboo to talk too much about [...]

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Professional social media v. personal social media – lessons from Stuart MacLennan

By + on April 9, 2010 in Business, Politics, Reputation Management, social media, Social Networks

Stuart MacLennan is the first candidate in the UK general election 2010 to be forced to resign / be sacked as a parliamentary candidate because of their behaviour on social media / social networks. The most interesting aspect of this to me isn’t the political one, but the professional business one. As more and more [...]

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Children’s TV shouldn’t be for idiots

By + on December 23, 2009 in Business

My daughter Esme (two and a half) loves it when me and Karen read her Beatrix Potter stories. She has a full boxed set that her Granda bought her. She loves turning the pages and she knows some of the stories so well that she even attempts to recite them from memory as she’s too [...]

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Ghost writing blogs: right or wrong?

By + on December 11, 2009 in Business, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

On Monday I attended Dell’s excellent B2B Social Media Huddle. One of the hottest topics of debate, both at the event and on Twitter (#dellb2b), was the issue of ghost writing blogs. What I found most interesting was that not only were there legitimate differing opinions, but also there was perhaps even more misunderstanding and [...]

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