Are we amidst a social media war?
It seems that Facebook has declared war on its rival competitors Twitter and Google + this week. Not only has it launched a ‘smart lists’ feature, making it easier for people to group their connections together in true Google+ ‘circles’ style, but it has also revealed a ‘subscribe’ button, so that...
Continue reading...Will I make it to the end of Nicholas Carr’s book the Shallows?
I have started reading Nicholas Carr’s book on whether the Internet is making us dumber. So far a very interesting read. Essentially the basic premise is that the Internet has reduced our ability to concentrate for long periods of time; instead we are choosing to digest as many small bits of infor...
Continue reading...Have you got a social media policy?
An interesting report has come out of ACAS today on social media. Apparently one in ten companies don't have a social media policy, while six in ten of us are now using social media. No great surprise really - companies have form here. For example, it took an age for many companies to simply put i...
Continue reading...Jobs for the boys (sorry…)
In the PR world, you can’t really hide from the news if you want to do your job. As a result, Steve Jobs’ decision to step down as the CEO of Apple was pretty much everywhere. I’m not going to commentate directly on what Jobs apparently moving to a slightly different role within the company might...
Continue reading...Who said August was a quiet month?
Well, it certainly hasn't been in the world of technology. If you had said last month that Google would be buying Motorola's mobile business or that HP would be ditching its PC business, WebOS and just-launched TouchPad, you would probably have been given a few strange looks. But instead, this...
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