The good and the bad of “ambient awareness”

A friend asked me about my response to this blog post – I Love You But I Don’t Care About Your Status Updates. In it, Mark Sayers talks about the influx of “junk information” about the lives of other people that has been inflicted upon us by sites like twitter and facebook. Have a read …

HOW TO: Plan and Promote Events With Social Media

Mashable: How to Plan and Promote Events With Social Media – this particular article refers to large events. I tend to think that the approach for creating smaller, more meaningful events is quite different, but this is certainly a legitimate way to think through the idea of getting people together, and having them share their …

5 ways to use twitter to help your business

Sure everyone is talking about twitter at the moment. But is it just a big waste of valuable staff time, or can it help your business? Here are 5 ways that twitter can help, whether you’re a small or a large company. Monitoring mentions of your business on Twitter using twitter search – find out …

a few ideas about social media

I find myself working now in “social media”, and as such, I’m reading a range of blogs that I haven’t been reading before. Here are a few quick links on the topic that I’ve been wanting to refer back to. In case you’re wondering, “social media” covers using internet tools like facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, …