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Later this week, I’m travelling to Dublin to speak at the annual conference of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland on May 9.
As I’ll be in Dublin over the weekend as well, it’s a great opportunity to meet up on Saturday with the Irish community of bloggers and users of Twitter, Jaiku and any other [...]

Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are [...]

The next few weeks are a busy time for speaking at events. I’ve just updated my Events page to add new detail to some of the events I’m involved with.
If you’re thinking about participating in a social media-focused conference or workshop during this second half of April, I have a few (entirely subjective) recommendations!

Disruptive Media: [...]

An apres-dinner photo of Mike Manuel, John Welton, Josh Hallett and Rich Cline, all with Voce Communications in the US.
All visiting the UK during this past week and we got together in London on Saturday evening, in the company of some other great people who felt like being part of an informal get-together.
I’d met [...]

One of the more interesting entrants to the Twitter community is DowningStreet, the moniker of a person or persons unknown in the digital communications team at 10 Downing Street.
Daily tweets inform the worldwide Twitter community of events, Prime Minister’s speeches, official announcements, what’s happening, etc.
Of most interest is the fact that this is not [...]

 
Lots of people have opinions about Twitter, ranging from a complete waste of time to the indispensable connector with your community.
(If you don’t know what Twitter is, this video by Lee Lefever will explain it all.)
I’m firmly in the latter camp. Since I signed up on Twitter in December 2006, it’s increasingly become the [...]

Two names that are well known in the global online PR community are Mike Manuel and Josh Hallett.
Based in the US, both are with Voce Communications, a West-coast PR firm.
Mike and Josh will be in London next week and we’re planning a social get-together in London on Saturday April 12.
The venue’s not yet fully [...]

Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life, says The Economist, but states that this does not mean that social networking is a business.
The Economist has a thoughtful assessment to support its statement on the business of social networks, concluding that social networking will never make lots of money for companies like [...]

Making it easy for readers of your content to share that content with others is one of the ways that you can make your blog or RSS feed ever more useful to those readers.
Plus it benefits you, the content creator, as your content gets wider visibility.
For quite a while, I’ve been using FeedBurner’s FeedFlare [...]

ReadWriteWeb has a poll asking: "Are you using FriendFeed?" I am, so I’ve answered the poll.
The single biggest result is the 42% saying they’ve been using FriendFeed since before March, plus the 13% who’ve signed up "after all the hype this month (SXSW)."
Hardly a scientific result but indicates at least the bubble crowd rush [...]