Tag Archives: microblogging

Will one tweet ever change the world?

by on September 29, 2009 in microblogging, socialbookmarking, socialmedia, technology, trends

Sometimes, you know you’re seeing history in the making in a few video frames. Recently, there’s been a bit too much of it happening. I watched in awe as the US Senate refused Bush his bailout money – the split-screen showed the politicians’ verdict and the resultant stock market crash like a horrendous parody of [...]

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Is Friendfeed starting to warm up?

by on May 5, 2009 in microblogging, RSS, trends

For some strange reason I’ve recently noticed more people subscribing to my Friendfeed, um, feed. I can’t figure out why this should be. Let’s look at Google Insights, which shows us how many searches are done for a search term and therefore gives an idea of interest around a particular subject: Hmmm, looks like it’s [...]

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Praise be, my subscriptions have fallen

by on April 30, 2009 in blogging, blogs, copywriting, microblogging, personal, PR, RSS, socialmedia

Running a blog about social media and PR is a piece of pie. Just start it up and make the right noises, eventually you wind up with several hundred subscribers. Same with Twitter. What is everyone talking about on Twitter? Mostly social media, it seems to me. So it’s with a sense of satisfaction that [...]

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A rebrand can be a crisis – or an opportunity

by on April 14, 2009 in blogging, brands, marketing, microblogging, socialmedia, socialnetworks

Sometimes the value of the network becomes most apparent, when you most need it. Last week, I announced my freelance copywriting status. It was a big step for me. But before I’d done anything ‘formally’, I updated my LinkedIn. Within half an hour I had three queries, one of which has turned out to be [...]

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Bookmark, tweet and blog at the same time with only two hands and one head

by on March 19, 2009 in microblogging, RSS, socialbookmarking, socialmedia, socialnetworks, technology

One issue I keep coming across lately is how to save money using social media. This is a big topic, one that relates to so many others from measuring social media through to monetising it. But every little helps, as they say, and through the miracle of RSS you can make your content work harder [...]

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So Twitter is omnipresent all of a sudden – but not necessarily omnipotent

by on February 10, 2009 in microblogging, socialmedia

Everyone’s talking about it. No, not Eastenders. Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Twitter. I’ve been asked several times recently “What is it, exactly?”, and I can only say the usual: it’s a bit like texting, but imagine your text going onto the web, and if people find your texts interesting enough or they know [...]

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2009 is just a number

by on January 28, 2009 in blogging, brands, disciplines, marketing, measurement, microblogging, PR, RSS, socialmedia

When the New Year came around, everyone pitched in with their predictions of what the future holds. Unfortunately, not having broadband throughout this period, I hardly had time to add my thoughts. So, belatedly, and in no particular order, here’s what I think: Twitter will become more mainstream. I’m probably late in saying this, but [...]

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Yahoo Pipes: you’ve got to go there to come back

by on October 7, 2008 in cloudcomputing, computing, monitoring, RSS, technology, visualisation

If anyone’s been following my Twitter feed recently they’ll know that I’ve been getting to grips with Yahoo Pipes. I think it’s an amazing tool and offers the tantalising possibility of creating a wholly modular monitoring system, effectively through programming-like routines which, through a neat graphical interface, largely remove the need for knowing how to [...]

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Feed housekeeping yields interesting insights

by on July 14, 2008 in blogging, PR, RSS

So, as one of my ‘things to do’ before I start at Fleishman Hillard*, I’ve been going through my RSS feeds in Google Reader. A very timely post about organising RSS feeds came along on the PNeo blog reminding that I needed to do this, and how I’d in fact planned to do it some [...]

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