After nagging endlessly about the abysmal search facility on twitter I can’t resist being very enthusiastic about Google Real Time Search.
Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, [...]
Anti-Social Media?
Uploaded by Intersection Consulting on 23 Apr 09, 6.48PM BST.
I don’t know why but as comms people we frequently get over-excited by the latest shiny thing. In that respect I think we are a little bit like academic researchers – go crazy over something and think it has an application absolutely everywhere.
These days it’s [...]
Kostas Karamanlis – current Greek Prime Minister
Uploaded by Νέα Δημοκρατία on 26 Sep 09, 10.19AM GMT.
It’s time for the Greek elections (again – they seem to happen more and more often) and I am watching with more interest than it can possibly be good for me.
As always my interest revolves around political communications (public [...]
wedding name tags
Originally uploaded by [nico] www.nicodewal.com
I’ve been browsing various websites lately – especially design studios, small hosting service providers and web development companies (I’ll disclose soon why). It strikes me as extremely weird why people would not put their name on their websites. There are so many that I saw that had no name [...]
Customer Service Hero
Originally uploaded by lepriveconcierge
And now for something completely different: Two companies that actually helped me online and engaged with me and responded to me via social media.
You know how we all nag ALL THE TIME about companies who don’t get it? It’s difficult to count how many times I’ve read/ written blog posts [...]
Multiple Personalities
Originally uploaded by moostang78
Anything new crops up and we think that we are inventing the world all over again. In my experience we don’t. We are just re-discovering things that others have said a lot better (and researched a lot more diligently) than us. I have a number of theories in mind but the [...]
David Cameron speaking at NESTA
Originally uploaded by conservativepartyuk
Did you hear? David Cameron – the Leader of the Opposition in the UK (Conservative) – went on the O’Connell radio show and managed to swear twice. I’m sorry that I don’t find this exciting or important.
What I do find important is Cameron’s view on Twitter.
“The trouble with [...]
Foreign Minister, David Miliband with Greek Foreign Minister, Dora Bakoyanni
Originally uploaded by UK in Greece (British Embassy, Athens)
Dora Bakoyannis is the Greek Foreign Minister – serving under the current Conservative government – and I would really like to see her do better with online presence and engagement. So here goes my intro and wish list.
Being [...]
Sometimes you just have to.
Don’t get me wrong. I love doing comms work, I like the process, the fact that you have to convince yourself first, the creativity. But sometimes you have to reject a job.
My number one reason for rejecting a contract is not being able to choose the people I want to work [...]
Any in-house communicator knows how difficult it is to join a company and to have to do all the ‘building up of your contacts list’ from scratch.
I don’t mean personal contacts or hard earned ones. I just mean your basic, day-to-day contacts – for example the leading industry publications and the name of their editor, [...]
