Dell certainly pushed the envelope yesterday in a press conference to launch a new line of Latitude laptop computers. The event took place in San Francisco, linked to media events in London and New Delhi, and with people online following the live webcast – and commenting and asking questions in…
I really like seeing how organizations experiment with social media, especially those who keep on pushing those envelopes and invite us to get involved and see what happens during such experimentation. Like Dell. Today at 9am PDT (5pm UK), Dell is holding a press conference to introduce a new generation…
Much has been written in recent months about the allure of Twitter and why people stick with it through thick and thin. Twitter has no shortage of rival micro-blogging services – Pownce, Plurk, Identi.ca and Jaiku are the obvious ones that spring to mind – yet Twitter remains a primary…
The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on…
Twitter suffered an unplanned outage this afternoon. Not on the scale of the troubles Twitter has suffered during much of this year – things are definitely getting better – but an outage all the same. What’s a Twitterer to do at times like this? Quite a few people blog about…
After a pleasant early-morning drive up the M40 and and not getting lost in central Birmingham (thank you, TomTom!), I arrived at WordCamp UK in good time for the start. So it’s about 45 minutes into Day 2. About 60 people here, I reckon. Quite a few hangover-looking folk so…
In the CIPR workshop in London, showing everyone how easy it is to create a post with WordPress. Hot quote from participant Zena Martin: If you’re not on Twitter, you’re nowhere! Yes, we’ve been looking at Twitter, too. (I’ll be adding to this post later.) Update July 8. The workshop…
The old saying “I don’t know much about art but I know what I like” is one I apply to myself much of the time. About the only art works I have at home where I know (and can remember) the name of the artist are some really nice prints…
