Reading
With life being a little less busy and enjoying the imaginary Meditteranean project, I’m getting more time to read. Project Med inspired me to...
My online plans for 2016
In 2016 I will be changing my approach to social media....
It’s Elemental
Blogging in #Bled: It’s elemental http://bit.ly/1k9rFfq 10,000 candles on #LakeBled...
“A hashtag is not a branding exercise.”
What is a hashtag for? I was sitting with an important client. We were talking about the hashtag to be used at an event with...
Phone numbers from 1989 for Nelson Mandella and Vaclav Havel
Way back in time, we used to keep numbers on cards in cardboard boxes. I was working in current affairs at a really interesting time;...
Paris has changed!
Paris has changed. Not for the better. Not for the worse. Just different. For example, I was standing outside Telegraphe Metro trying to match the...
Davy’s on the road again – again
I’m about to get busy, again. Today and tomorrow producing a live webcast from the Confidence in Policing conference at Titanic Belfast for Northern Ireland...
Blogging is dead – Oh, no it’s not!
This year: Blogging is dead. Blogging is reborn. Blogging has shifted. And it’s still only January. OK So it’s February now (I spent a while...
Using Traditional and New Media For Campaigns Against Prejudice, Xenophobia and Discrimination
The December meeting of the Grundvig group was held in Cezayir Istanbul. These are some of the social media links to resources and work of...
Top 12 Moments 2013
I started trying to highlight 10 moments through the year but it was difficult enough to keep it down to 12....
Tulip City Hotel, Istanbul
Review in Trip Advisor I was on business and attending meetings nearby. One of the reasons I chose Tulip City was that it was recommended...
How travel has changed in under two decades
I have travelled a lot since the mid 1990s. This week I was in Istanbul for the first time since 1996 and I began to...
Tips for live tweeting
1 – Prepare, prepare, prepare There are several things you should do beforehand I. Who do you expect your audience to be – always be...
Belfast Lough in the morning – May 2013
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WIMPS at South Africa’s Media Conference for Youth
A short report written for a different blog. The coach’s engine was overheating. Outside the sun was beating down – it was 35 degrees. Inside,...
Gumboot Dance – the Media Kidocracy Konference talent night winners
While working in South Africa at the beginning of December 2012 at the Media Kidocracy Konference organised by Bush Radio, the organisers held a talent...
Video report from MKK South Africa
WIMPS – Karen reports from the Media Kidocracy Konference in South Africa from wimps.tv on Vimeo....
Teaching Blogging in South Africa
Here are the numbers. As I write, Lake Malawe is, at a guess, fifty to one hundred miles to the west. I’m 35,000 feet above...
Facebook is free – and Facebook is expensive
We all love Facebook – especially when we get to hate it. The most widely used and popular social media platform is used by close...
Digital Lunch: Belfast2020
Mick Fealty (editor founder and driving force behind Slugger O’Toole) organises weekly Digital Lunches on Google Hangout. Mick has kindly invited me to take part...
That was then … this isn’t
Yesterday on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, there was an interview with someone in Syria “on the internet”. In other words on Skype (or...
String theory and the decade of anniversaries
This is a longer blog post that I would even read – let alone write. So here is the headline. The past is important we...
Zen and the art of logging off
A report in the New York Times this week says that the some of the masters of Silicon Valley are now thinking about potential addiction to...
How we speak in Crossmaglen
I was doing a session with the Driving Change group from Crossmaglen. Fantastic group, but first we had to get over the language problem. Apologies...
That was one brilliant week
We were told a few weeks ago that Public Achievement – the charity I work for – was going to be given a Big Society...
Focus Matters
My new year’s resolution. That is all....
The Facebook Diet – how to loose ‘friends’ and be influenced by people
With 938 ‘Friends’ on Facebook, I have decided that this is a richness that I no longer need. In the end it was one post...
The Week in WIMPS
Film maker Marc Mulholland joined the team. He’ll train Crew and Staff to make video better and help drive up our production standards – welcome Marc....
The Week in WIMPS – Week Beginnging 14 February 2011
Interviews with Political Leaders, choosing a design company to build our new web site and live streaming the first political party hustings – just part...
Testing from Blackberry
I’ve been downloading some aps for Blackberry. Much as I enjoy blogging sometimes dragging myself to the laptop seems just too much work. So I’m...