Social media and privacy issues: A little less scare mongering, a little more common sense please
There’s been a lot of buzz around the privacy issues attached to social media this week with the launch of PleaseRobMe.com. It’s supposed to be a joke website, but with a serious message that’s got people in a bit of a tizz. It takes information from social media streams about where users are (or where … Read more
Top 30 social media, marketing, pr blogs
I spend a lot of time on the web. Most of it reading my rss reader and soaking up the content supplied by my favourite and highly respected bloggers who write about social media, marketing and pr. I have a few of them listed under ‘sites we love’, but it isn’t the full list. So … Read more
Happy first birthday to us … what a year!
So 2009 turned out to be the best ever. It looked so different this time last year. Back in the summer 2008 I had the great idea of starting up my own marketing agency. Well after 10 years of working for others the timing felt right. The next few months consisted of careful planning, branding, … Read more
Which are the best Twitter apps … The Results
A couple of weeks ago I carried out a short survey on here. My aim was to find the most useful Twitter apps as voted for by the readers of my blog and Twitter followers. So here are the Top 9:
Which are the best Twitter apps?
I’ve been wondering which are the most useful Twitter apps. There are loads of lists published, but I find these subjective if they’ve come from one person. Plus it depends entirely on how you use Twitter, which mobile you use etc. I think there are one or two apps that people universally agree are essential. … Read more
Chris Brogan – The Serendipity Engine
Another guy I get a great deal from in the social space is the man himself, Chris Brogan. Some say he gets it right, some say otherwise. I say he’s bang on. This is a 10 minute keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York this month. He captures some great thoughts in this … Read more
Social Media breakfast briefing at the DBA
Well what a great crowd at my Social Media breakfast briefing hosted by the DBA this morning. Around 50 engaged creative companies attended and they posed some great questions. For those that missed it, my presentation is here. It was more an introduction to social media than a ‘how to’, but the positive response afterwards … Read more
3 social media events, 2 cities, 1 big blog post
Image courtesy of Britt Warg There have been a number of social media events recently and I wanted to attend as many as I could to a) connect with the best of the best in social media, b) validate what we’re doing at Red Cube and c) understand how social media is being used in … Read more
Look before you leap – article on Reputation Online
As the world and his dog shepherds businesses into the digital space before they ‘miss out’ (on what exactly? it’s not going anywhere), it seems some have lost site of the fundamentals … read the full piece on Reputation Online
So many social media events, so little time
I don’t know about you, but every corner I turn at the moment I seem to be bombarded by ‘MUST ATTEND SOCIAL MEDIA’ events. There seems to be a bit of a rush in the air. That if we don’t attend our lives will suddenly turn sour. We’ll never be the same again. Or something.
