Tag: Web 2.0

Yet another tuppence on why traditional media isn’t dead yet

  • January 5, 2011 at 8:45 pm

  • I’ve just read on the cover of Metro that the details of Prince William’s wedding ceremony were released ‘exclusively on social networking site Twitter’. Even Clarence House is bypassing traditional news outlets; so are we finally seeing the demise of ‘traditional’ media? No, probably not. The thing is I didn’t discover this news on Twitter. [...]

What works for dogs in social media doesn’t necessarily work for citizens

  • September 10, 2010 at 5:39 pm

  • Lots of people in the voluntary sector will tell you that your organisation should be using Twitter*, and that it’s easy to engage with your audience by doing so. What many seem to overlook is that while Twitter may well be a useful tool for your work, there is no ‘one size fits all’ model [...]

Social media: peripheral impact measurement

  • September 8, 2008 at 10:05 am

  • It’s fairly easy to gauge the impact of a blog on a discussion by the quantity and content of comments, backlinks etc. But I am a lazy blogger: I don’t write very often (it doesn’t occur to me to, I don’t have anything to add, or I don’t have confidence in my opinion). But I [...]

Man jailed over accidental Facebook message

  • October 8, 2007 at 7:38 am

  • This is a bit scary: a man who had been ordered not to contact his wife was jailed when he inadvertently sent her a message on Facebook. He claims the sign-up process confused him—in the same way that it confused me—by sending automatic friend requests to people in his existing contacts lists. “I certainly hadn’t [...]