Getting together for a chat over lunch – the epitome of being social whether for business or pleasure. That’s what the photo above suggests to me, a picture of a group who did just that a few days ago at the delightful Petersham Hotel in Richmond, Surrey; people who know each other primarily though online [...]
Social Networks
The richness of being social
Published on October 23, 2011 · 7:44 am UK · 0 comments
in Business, Experiences, Professional Development, Social Networks
The rise and rise of Sina Weibo
Published on September 29, 2011 · 7:38 am UK · 1 comment
in Business, Communication, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Twitter, Web
If you want get an idea of which major brands are doing what in China with Sina Weibo, the front-runner in microblogging in that country, AdAge.com has a compelling feature that highlights what Starbucks and many other consumer brands are doing in tapping into China’s online culture and connecting with people on their terms: [...] [...]
Read MoreSocial trajectories and the ones that matter
Published on September 27, 2011 · 8:51 am UK · 0 comments
in Business, Communication, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networks, Trends, Web
This chart showing the share of time spent online by US social networkers is interesting in that Facebook’s usage-growth trajectory is consistent over quite a long period, three years or so. The overall picture suggests that there are only two dominant players that matter – Google and Facebook. AOL looks in terminal decline with Microsoft [...]
Read MoreRebooting Facebook
Published on September 23, 2011 · 9:04 am UK · 6 comments
in Business, Communication, Experiences, Innovation, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Technology, Trends, Web, Workplace
As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. Over the course of almost an hour, Zuckerberg laid out his grand plan for the [...]
Read MoreUniversal Google+
Published on September 21, 2011 · 12:03 pm UK · 3 comments
in Communication, Experimenting, Social Media, Social Networks, Web
If you visit the Google search page today on your desktop or laptop computer, it will likely look like the screenshot you see here. A big blue hand-drawn arrow leads from the Google logo in the centre of your screen to the top-left corner, pointing to the word "+You." That’s Google+ (say it "Google Plus"), [...]
Read MoreCommon sense prevails on social disorder and social networks
Published on August 26, 2011 · 11:47 am UK · 4 comments
in Communication, Law, Mobile, Politics, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Society
Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the networks themselves, in times of civil disorder. If you take some newspaper headlines at face [...]
Read MoreHow to stay safe and secure on Facebook
Published on August 21, 2011 · 11:23 am UK · 0 comments
in Communication, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Web
Facebook has just published a handy guide to help you do all you can to stay safe and secure when you are online and using the social networking site. Available on free download, the 14-page PDF entitled "A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators" offers a wealth of common-sense and practical [...]
Read MoreFacebook riot calls earn men four-year jail terms amid sentencing outcry
Published on August 17, 2011 · 8:32 am UK · 1 comment
in Communication, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web
Google+ growth rockets
Published on July 20, 2011 · 8:35 am UK · 1 comment
in Communication, Experimenting, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web
Extraordinary growth – Google+, the embryonic social network launched by Google last month, is approaching 18 million members, Mashable reports. Quoting data from Google+ user Paul Allen who has been tracking user growth throughout July, Mashable says Google+ continues to set records as the fastest-growing social network in history although the meteoric rise in growth [...]
Read MoreAn apologetic tweeter
Published on June 3, 2011 · 9:11 am UK · 8 comments
in Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Networks, Society, Twitter
A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. [...] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on Twitter in January that his pregnant friend had been poorly treated by her employers at [...]
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