Internet Psychologist
Graham Jones Politicians are hoping that social networks, such as Twitter, could have a positive influence on the outcome of the forthcoming General Election in the UK. However, according to Internet Psychologist Graham Jones the impact is more likely to be negative. Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live last night (1hr 6 …
Politicians need to take note of Twitter if they want to succeed in the forthcoming General Election in the UK. A new service called “Tweetminster” is analysing all the political tweets and using that information to predict the result of the election. At the moment it is suggesting that the …
By Clare Swindlehurst Keeping your blog interesting and fresh isn’t just a case of posting regularly, you also need to mix things up and use different styles of posts to keep your readers engaged. Here are five different styles you can try out to make your blog more interesting. 1. …
Just been booked to appear on the Stephen Nolan Show at 10.15pm tonight to talk about the election and Twitter.
The UK’s Press Association (a leading news wire service) has just interviewed me about the prospective MP who has been sacked because of comments he made on Twitter.
If 7m individuals visited your website each month would you be happy? Maybe; I guess it rather depends on who you are and how many people already visit. For the Daily Telegraph, however, this was seen as too small an audience. That’s a remarkable thought, considering the newspaper itself only …
Just been interviewed for a magazine for women on how online social networking will affect their views for the forthcoming election.
If you don’t like the musical suggestion in the headline, here’s an alternative “Another one bites the dust”. Yet again, we’re seeing a major organisation – this time AOL – making a massive mess of things online. And you think they’d know better, considering they started out as an online …
Three men are asking you to trust them. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are going to be appealing to you over the coming weeks to put your trust in them. Which one do you trust the most with your future? Which one do you trust with your safety? …
Here’s an expirement you can conduct in your local shopping centre car park tomorrow. Print out 100 sheets of paper with an item you want to sell and your phone number, or the contact details where people can buy it. Then stick one sheet under the windscreen wiper of 100 …
Facebook insiders have revealed exclusively to me that later today they will be announcing a new language which is set to revolutionise the web. At the moment the web is mostly in English, with other sites in Japanese, Chinese, and a multitude of European languages. The real difficulty is that …
Nigel Morgan – PR Expert What is the practical use of Twitter in business? Even if you accept it does have a business case, how do you use it? And what if you use it – how do you capitalise on it? These are regular questions business people ask about …
Readers of The Times online are going to have to dig into their piggy banks come June; The Times and The Sunday Times are to start charging for access to their websites. You will need to pay £1 a day or get it discounted to £2 a week. If you …
How annoyed are you when you go into a bookshop and see a book entitled “Email for the elderly” or “Windows 7 for Seniors”? There is a plethora of books out now all targeting a group of people aged 50 and over all variously described as “senior” or “elderly” or …
It can be a nerve-wracking task to choose a freelance writer for your web site. You are placing a great deal of trust in another person’s hands. Although you can protect yourself by reading the content before publishing it and checking it for plagiarism and duplicates, writers that produce poor …