Internet Psychologist
The latest articles from Internet Psychologist and Business Academic, Graham Jones
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron seal their relationship in public as this still from the BBC News website shows The wedding guests were all arranged in the garden and then, as the sun shone and the birds sang, in walked the “happy couple”. Smiling, confident …
The people of Newbury, in Berkshire, must be keen grocery shoppers. In spite of the fact that this small market town has a population of only 30,000 people, Tesco has just opened it’s third store there. There is a massive Tesco Extra a mile or so South, there is a …
Outdoor advertising may as well be blank, for all the good it does for online firms Advertising executives are failing their customers it seems. New research shows that people want to find out more about the products and services being advertised, but those pesky ad designers are not helping them …
These people will make better use of Twitter and Facebook than many of their children Late tonight, all across the UK, groups of people will be getting together for a party to celebrate their, er, Party…! Strange as it may seem, but people do have fun on Election Night to …
Do you really want to be Number One? Or is it more trouble than it is worth? World Champion gymnast, Beth Tweddle, won even more medals at the weekend and was celebrating her achievements on BBC Radio Five Live this morning. But in a revealing phrase she said it is …
Ditherer. That’s the not-so-kind name given by many people to Gordon Brown. Remember a couple of years back? First he was going to have an election; then he wasn’t. If only, say his followers; after all Labour was riding very high in the polls at the time and he’d have …
Google is not a search engine – at least it’s not the way many people are using it. True, it can find you things – often unexpected and not always what you wanted. But, the latest information from Hitwise shows that most people are using Google merely as a “shorthand” …
RBS boss says bankers are paid to much; but that’s because of their brains The boss of RBS has scored a Gordon Brown-like “own goal”. The bank’s Chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has admitted that city bankers are paid too much – “astonishingly high”, is what he said their salaries were. …
Unless you’ve been on a trip to the Planet Zog in the last 24 hours you cannot have missed the own-goal scored by Gordon Brown as he was caught out calling a life-long Labour voter a “bigoted woman”. You cannot move for the coverage in the media – and at …
Looking inside our head provides answers for Internet business owners trying to achieve online success Bankers at Lloyds will be deleriously happy today. They have returned to profit after being in the doldrums; and that means – you guessed it – bonuses….! Whoopee…! Here come the rich times again for …
Fans of the hit TV series Dr Who are annoyed; no, they are furious. For two days the most popular story on the BBC News website has been about the anger of Dr Who fans who were annoyed by an on-screen trail for a Graham Norton programme. Like many TV …
Friends at work are important to your productivity Friends are hugely important to you in the workplace. Research has consistently demonstrated that when you have friends at work, you perform better. If you go to work and don’t have any friends who work with you, or if you don’t really …
There may be books on the shelf, but young people prefer online learning Students are flocking to new technology rather like a bunch of pigeons pouncing on peanuts in London’s Trafalgar Square. And that means there is going to be the need for wholesale change in the way your business …
Facebook faces financial conundrum Most Facebook users simply don’t see the advertising the site serves up to them. That’s a conclusion you can draw from a new study on “social advertising” – the fancy name given to placing an advert on a website…! Indeed, anyone running even the smallest business …
Romantic or sexual imagery on your website can change the way your visitors think Do you remember those dreadful adverts that used to appear many years ago in newspaper columns and classified listings? They said things like: “SEX: Now that I’ve got your attention here’s our latest set of spanners …