Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
humour
This made me chuckle [http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/2340-A-vacation,-and-some-observations......html] : > (A point made on one of the posts three years back was that Social Commerce was like your friend coming up to you at a pub or dinner party dressed in Coca Cola gear (or any other
events
My diary is filling up alarmingly right now, and it has been a hectic couple of days, but I just wanted to pause a second and blog a little about a talk I gave to the APA – the Association of Publishing Agencies [https://the-cma.com] – yesterday. It was pretty much
new media
A neat quote that encapsulates where the divide between new and social media lies: > Adriana says: “I divide between old and new media on the one hand and social media on the other hand. New media is just digitalised old media. Social media are tools like blogs, tagging, podcasts,
Blogging
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to
Blogging
The observant might have noticed the arrival of the new, official, Tweet button [http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton] and a more compact Facebook Like button on this here blog a few days ago. I tend to use OM&HB as a testing ground for things we could roll out
Here’s the thing: the impulse to look for the next big thing is a good one. But you need a touch of discrimination, and a couple of basic rules to understand if something has a hope of success. If you look at every successful social media innovation, it has
events
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/07/image_22.png] Michael Targett [http://twitter.com/mtargettuk] and his team (pictured right) are doing some awesome work from the Farnborough Air Show this week – their rolling coverage is all aggregated on the main site [http://www.flightglobal.
bloggers
So… which bloggers “get” social media best [http://fashionista.com/2010/07/google-wants-to-be-more-fashionable/], according to Google? > Google thinks fashion bloggers understand social media better than those covering other industries. So one of the world’s most powerful companies is tapping the brains of some of the world’s most
mainstream
There’s an interesting post over on Kottke.org by guest blogger Aaron Cohen that points out that the speed from launch to mainstream media adoption of new social web tools [http://kottke.org/10/05/the-speed-with-which-traditional-media-adopts-social-media-platforms] is growing ever faster. I’ve been chuckling ever since I read it,
echo chambers
[![Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in P...]()](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brookgreen_reading_9739.JPG) The “Parliament can go hang itself” edition…- [Where next for the Telegraph’s digital strategy?](http://paidcontent.co.uk/
Blogging
I am a perpetual floating voter. I have political opinions, but no strong party loyalty – and I’ve voted for all the main parties and some minority ones in the elections I’ve participated in over the last couple of decades. There’s a simple reason for this: I believe
community
Thought-provoking viewing for your post-Bank Holiday coffee break: [[via Antony Mayfield](http://www.antonymayfield.com/2010/03/28/a-social-media-horror-story-mob-a-near-future-science-fiction-story-by-tom-scott/)]