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Analytics, audiences, Creative, Media, Personal, Social Media, Twitter
What do you want to say? First know your audience
My communications mantra hasn’t changed much over the years. I have found it serves me well.
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Bled, Creative, Slovenia, Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
Twitter Scheduling as Radio Programming
It is worse to drive people away than to fail to attract them in the first place.
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Creative, Lifecasting, Social Media, Twitter
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 aware of the audience. II. […]
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Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized
Confidence and Social Media
Some things don’t work without confidence. Economies collapse without “confidence”; for example. Investors will not invest without “confidence”; for example. If athletes set out to compete in the Olympics, are they likely […]
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Starter’s guide to social media
Off to Queens University earlier this week to to an intro to social media for the Nutrition Society. It’s short. So’s this. The presentation on Blogging is here. Introduction to Social Media from Davy Sims
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Creative, facebook, Social Media, Twitter
Starter’s Guide to Social Media
Off to Queens University earlier this week to do an intro to social media for the Nutrition Society. It’s short. So’s this. The presentation on Blogging is here. Introduction […]
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Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
When Social Media Goes Wrong
As I said in my post yesterday, people turn to social media in emergencies. Information is updated and shared faster than on traditional media, but the information is only as […]
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facebook, Social Media, Social Media, Tech Business, Twitter
Social Media in Emergencies
Back in the 1970’s the Independent Radio Network was being rolled out. A programme controller at one station told me that the best thing that can happen to a new […]
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Creative, facebook, News, predictions, Twitter
Future Skills for the Digital Economy
Let’s crunch some numbers. As of last month there were 160,000,000 Twitter users. The platform was adding 370,000 new users every day. There were 90,000,000 tweets every day. Facebook has […]
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google, Twitter, Uncategorized
Google Buzz or Google Zzzz?
This is a version of my Belfast Telegraph column for this week: Less than a month ago Google launched their social networking and messaging tool Google Buzz to a largely lukewarm reception. In late 2007 Google acquired the Jaiku social network tha...
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Social Media, Tech Business, Twitter
Rise and Fall of the Twitter Generations
This is an extended version of my Belfast Telegraph column 16 Feb. A shiver ran round the corporate offices of technology, media and investment companies last summer. A 15 year old […]
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(Very) Basic Twitter Tips for Business
This is a version of my Belfast Telegraph column from 2 Feb 2010 It is more than a year since the Great Twitter Adoption. Within a few months Twitter stories […]
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(Very) Basic Twitter Tips for Business
This is a version of my Belfast Telegraph column from 2 Feb 2010It is more than a year since the Great Twitter Adoption. Within a few months Twitter stories were all over the media. @StephenFry earned acres of coverage when he sent a photograph an...
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Twitter trends predict 2010’s zeitgeist
From Belfast Telegraph column 19 January 2010 The best way – and probably the only efficient way – to keep track of Twitter comments and conversations is the hashtag “#”. […]
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Contains Strong Language
This week’s Belfast Telegraph column: The third series of the brilliant BBC TV comedy “The Thick of It” has come to an end. It tells the story of the fictional […]
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Slacktivism
This week's Belfast Telegraph articleIt's called “Slacktivism”: a mix of Activism and Slacker describing how some people support a cause by doing no more than signing an online petition, or joining a Facebook group or taking part in a Twitter-stor...
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The World’s Editorial Page
This is my column for Belfast Telegraph for this week. Only occasionally will you find “breaking news” on Twitter. If you are following the right people and reading at the […]
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Editorial, Twitter, Uncategorized
The World’s Editorial Page
This is my column for Belfast Telegraph for this week. Only occasionally will you find “breaking news” on Twitter. If you are following the right people and reading at the right time you might. If you follow any of the newspaper feeds including th...
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Belfast telegraph, Tech Business, Twitter
Two new Twitter applications from Northern Ireland
This article appeared in the print only edition of the Belfast Telegraph 28 July 2009 Two Web developers in Northern Ireland have each just launched Twitter based websites and applications; […]
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What do you want to say? First know your audience
My communications mantra hasn’t changed much over the years. I have found it serves me well.
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Twitter Scheduling as Radio Programming
It is worse to drive people away than to fail to attract them in the first place.