audience engagement
WhatsApp for war reporting, Reddit for search and Twitter for GIFs…
Social platforms keep evolving in unexpected directions. Here's three changes that have become clear in recent weeks.
Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Social Media
Getting tone of voice right on social media
Being able to talk like the people you want to reach is a critical audience engagement skill.
culture wars
Cultural jargon is still jargon
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
Performative power versus persuasive dialogue on 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
Sunday Supplement: trees, mental health, Alistair Campbell and more
Pour yourself a drink, find a quite corner, and enjoy this selection of interesting reading, listening and viewing from around the web.
online communities
Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities
Deplatforming Trump and QAnon won’t kill the movement. But it might just stop it growing as fast.
social networks
Attack of the clones: all social networks are NOT becoming the same
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
Social & Digital Coffee Break: Google tools, social media stats and free money
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
Weaning media off its social addiction
Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.
X (Twitter)
Twitter's faceless accelerants
Social media mobs do what mobs have always done: give the masses the feeling of power.
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?