I’m watching with great interest some of the social media communication Dan Light is involved with as part of the marketing for Watchmen, a movie about American superheroes based on a DC Comics series, due out in the UK on March 6. Directed by Zack Snyder – who directed 300,…
Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space of time, the number of people who have joined this…
One of the features that make self-hosted WordPress such an excellent content management system or blogging platform (take your pick of description) is the easy way you can extend functionality through adding third-party plug-ins. I use a lot of plug-ins – currently 35 active ones on this blog – that…
In common with thousands of fellow Twitter users, I sat down on the sofa at 10:35pm last night for the first of the continuance of the 15th series of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the chat show on BBC1 with the eponymous but recently-disgraced radio and TV presenter. Ross is…
In mid December, the RSS feeds for all my blogs including this one that have been managed by FeedBurner since 2004were auto-migrated over to Google. This is part of the changes that started happening earlier last year following Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner in 2007. As I wrote last month, the…
Content summary: FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer posted; next FIR Live on Feb 7; Dan York reports on the new White House blog, CNN and Facebook, tools for Twitter, Identica, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: communication and other perspectives on the inauguration of US…
When Bob Nardelli, Chairman and CEO of beleaguered automaker Chrysler, posted Thank You America on Chrysler’s corporate blog at the end of December, I imagine the last thing he or his communications team expected was the scale and depth of vitriolic comment left by some of the good citizens of…
I’ve always thought of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) as a bit of a disconnected professional body, one that’s not quite in step with the realities of what’s happening in the professional trenches, as it were, regarding social media. I say this as non-advertising man not immersed in…
