Ever since Google introduced Google+ in 2011, a big frustration for many users of the embryonic social network was letting people know where to find them. That means a web address or URL: something you can let people know about so that it’s easy for them to find you on…
About 100 people gathered in Google’s London campus last night to hear Robert Scoble and Shel Israel talk about concepts, ideas, experiences, trends and realities surrounding some of the themes and topics in their new book, Age of Context, published in September. The widely-anticipated event was organized by the CIPR…
Intro: Thank you for participating in the FIR Listener Survey 2013, results report soon; Episode 5 of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari is up; Neville and Bryan Person at the UK Social Media Communications Awards 2013 in London last week; Neville in discussion with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel…
If I’d been a keen fan of Arsenal football club, I’d have been in seventh heaven last Thursday evening. I was at the Emirates stadium – Arsenal’s home in north London – for the huge shindig that was the UK Social Media Communications Awards 2013. It was an event that…
It’s always very interesting seeing how the mixture of empowered social communication, Twitter and a hashtag can totally disrupt traditional communication and command and control behaviours. We’ve seen this during the past week in two specific examples – the negative hashtag hijacking experience for British Gas (#AskBG), and the positive…
Intro: Episode 4 of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari is up, please help us improve FIR with the FIR Listener Survey: open until Oct 23, eight GAP study on communication best practices now open for input; Quick News: 40% of YouTube traffic now mobile, Twitter’s new DM feature and…
Metrics, facts, opinion and forecasts are all part of the fabric of the online experience. Everywhere you look, you’ll see reports, surveys, infographics and much more web furniture designed to inform, entertain and often sell. Too often, though, it’s a challenge to use some content that is made publicly available…
One of the banes of modern computer life is booting up, the process that happens to your computer when you switch it on. On my office desktop computer running 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, it takes well over five minutes from the moment I turn the machine on to the moment…
