Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
X (Twitter)
The possibility of an Elon Musk-run Twitter has people heading for the doors. If we see a mass deletion of accounts, all of a sudden a lot of news stories while find crucial embedded elements at risk.
audience engagement
Social platforms keep evolving in unexpected directions. Here's three changes that have become clear in recent weeks.
Social Media
Being able to talk like the people you want to reach is a critical audience engagement skill.
culture wars
It's easier than ever to connect with fellow journalists. But does that mean it's too easy to get disconnected from our audiences?
Social Media
Ezra Klein's latest podcast delves deep into the social complexities of the behaviours lumped under the banner of "cancel culture"
mental health
Pour yourself a drink, find a quite corner, and enjoy this selection of interesting reading, listening and viewing from around the web.
online communities
Deplatforming Trump and QAnon won’t kill the movement. But it might just stop it growing as fast.
social networks
Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why.
aggregation
A round up of news you can use in your social media and digital publishing work. Just don't click on the last link, unless you want to despair of men.
TikTok
Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.
X (Twitter)
Social media mobs do what mobs have always done: give the masses the feeling of power.
Social Media
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…