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Why Labour is beating the Tories online

By on August 19, 2009 in Politics, social media

It is a common fallacy that the Tories are beating Labour online. That’s why Conservative MPs dominate the new Total Politics Annual Blog Poll. There are just 14 Labour blogs in the Top 30, compared to nine Conservative… That’s right. Labour is in fact the party that leads with blogging MPs, according to a poll [...]

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The truth about The Investor’s Business Daily, Professor Stephen Hawking and MND/Lou Gehrig’s Disease

By on August 14, 2009 in Politics

You’d think a publication with the title of The Investor’s Business Daily would be a pretty reputable publication, dedicated to checking its facts, otherwise how could it talk cover a subject such as investment? You’d be wrong. The Investor’s Business Daily was where the story about Professor Stephen Hawking and his experiences (or claimed lack [...]

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#welovethenhs takes over Twitter

By on August 12, 2009 in Politics, public relations, social media

The #welovethenhs is now by far and away the top trend amongst the people I follow on Twitter. However, surprisingly it isn’t trending anymore (Twitter searches for the most talk about subjects and highlights them as trending topics). Based on the volume of tweets that I’m seeing then #welovethenhs should be trending. I’m not the [...]

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The tools that give me time to do corporate social media

By on July 31, 2009 in Technology

Today is a sad day as one of the set of tools that I depend on is no more. The ability to subscribe to mainstream media and social media websites using RSS feeds is an enormous time saver and if it wasn’t for that it would be extremely difficult to do my job as a [...]

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Edelman mid year Trust Barometer report shows declining trust – again

By on July 30, 2009 in Politics, public relations, Reputation Management

The latest Edelman Trust Barometer reveals some interesting, if expected, insights into levels of trust. You can see all the figures (and Twitter comments) on the Edelman site, but I just wanted to highlight some of the UK figures of particular interest: Addressing global issues 78% think government has not done enough to reduce energy [...]

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Leeds Loves Food off to a crackling start

By on July 5, 2009 in Leeds, Marketing, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

Last night I had a great night out with my wife to sample the Leeds Loves Food tasting menu at The Living Room on Greek Street in the centre of Leeds. I have to admit I was a bit dubious…

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If you want to be a thought leader, blog don’t Twitter

By on June 29, 2009 in public relations, Self Promotion, social media

Robert Scoble is one of those A-list bloggers I read because I think I should rather than because I want to – mainly because even though I like him, I don’t often agree with him! However, this time we’re on…

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Citizen journalism in action, or not?

By on June 25, 2009 in Business, Politics, public relations, social media

Today’s Guardian diary leads with a piece about me Twittering an indiscrete conversation I overheard on the train. It appeared to be an executive from French energy company Total talking about how Total could beat the unions at the Lindsey…

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Social media campaign hammers the Daily Mail

By on June 19, 2009 in social media

The Daily Mail is running an online poll that is shocking even by Daily Mail standards. It’s asking “Should the NHS allow gypsies to jump the queue? A Twitter campaign has sprung into action urging people to vote the right…

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Hugh McCloud ‘Ignore Everybody’ signed prints

By on June 15, 2009 in Marketing, public relations, social media

To celebrate the launch of his new book ‘IGNORE EVERYBODY’, Gaping Void cartoonist and social media evangelist Hugh McCloud has made available a limited edition collection of prints of his most popular cartoons. He’s also done a special square version…

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