newsletters
Newsletters: Rise of the Blogletter
Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.
Social Media
How do we solve our online civility problem?
Some more thoughts on deescalating the culture war, as well as ways of looking better in your Zoom calls and an interesting new business opportunity…
Social Media
Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks.
The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?
toxic communities
Narcissism and toxic communities
Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis…
social & digital lunchbreak
Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed
Useful reading on the future of publishing, the secrets of TikTok and the growth of online community during the pandemic.
audience engagement
Social & Digital lunchbreak: the engaging, managing & uplifting edition
Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days…
trolling
Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage
If you were in any doubt that the fundamental tools of the online troll are now at play in global politics, the last week should have put paid to that.
community management
Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy
The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option.
TikTok
TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed
TikTok stars are “fading” already - and the reason why suggests the challenge ahead for the platform.
X (Twitter)
Engaged Reading Digest: engaging ethically and slaying trolls
The best of the web on engaged journalism ethics, troll fighting and mentorships.
engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of
It's easy to get sucked into the idea that social media is mainly a promotional tool. Today's digest is a reminder that it's much more than that — for good and ill
engaged journalism
Engaged Reading Digest: walking up the subs hill, radicalization on Reddit and more
More useful reads from the audience engagement mines.