The REAL story behind the 104-Year-Old who joined Twitter "She joined because home PC maintenance company Geek Squad signed her up, propped her up for a photo opportunity and press-released the hell out of it." (tags: pr publicrelations marketing elderly… Continue Reading
Product Launch: Thunder Thimble — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS "Thunder Thimble is a web based application meant for monitoring and managing mentions of your products, services, brands in “social media”." Sadly, it only works on Twitter at… Continue Reading
Online Recruitment – Nine out of ten employees 'scared to use Twitter at work' "One person I know uses Twitter to monitor stock market movements, gaining insights that the usual channels just cannot provide. She doesn't Tweet much herself, but… Continue Reading
This morning I discovered that Amazon's Kindle now offers the ability to subscribe to blogs. If you're a blogger, and want your blog to be available through Amazon, the details of how to sign up are here. I don't have… Continue Reading
Delicious Toolbox: 80+ Updated Tools and Resources (tags: socialbookmarking delicious) Prezi – The zooming presentation editor Create a map of your ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to details, amaze, convince, take the day. And it is very simple… Continue Reading
Lee Bryant, director of Headshift (disclaimer: my employer) presents his ‘social stack’ at SOMESSO at Emirates Stadium in London. The stack includes personal tools; group collaboration; blogs and networks; tweets, bookmarks and tags; public feeds and flows. The slides aren’t… Continue Reading
Last year, I ended up watching the Eurovision Song Contest because I wanted to take part in the conversations my friends were having about it on Twitter. In the resultant blog post, I looked forward to this year: “Broadcasters and… Continue Reading
Guy Degen in Germany: #Winnenden and Twitter: German media's conversation of a shooting (tags: twitter journalisttraining journalism germany shooting) Get That Content Off Your Website It’s no longer about getting people to our websites and keeping them there. You should… Continue Reading
Charites that Twitter Social media is opening new doors for charities and non-profits to get their message in front of a massive number of people and if they identify with your cause will pick up your message and spread it… Continue Reading
Do You Want to Discuss Products in Social Media? – ReadWriteWeb "Other new products being rolled out today include branded embeddable polls and activity stream publishing microsites that will function a little like Twitter but will stand alone on an… Continue Reading