Press Association Interview
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.
Three steps to increase trust in your online business
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? …
A complete masterclass on Twitter
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 …
You can get people to pay for websites
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 …
Stop neglecting your website visitors to avoid damaging them
So is the British Chancellor your darling or do you feel ignored by him today? The UK budget this afternoon provided the usual flim flam. Predictions of growth, which won’t materialise, departmental cuts which they cannot possibly make and a hocus pocus collection of handing stuff out with one hand …
Rare species killed off by the Internet
Conservationists are up in arms about the Internet. They are pointing out – ironically using the Internet – that the web is responsible for threatening more endangered species than ever. Apparently you can order a polar bear skin online, or if you want you can get a baby lion shipped …
Don’t copy other websites
Do you remember that child at school who would curl their arm around their work so there was no chance of copying what they were doing? They were really mean weren’t they? They wouldn’t even let you take their exercise books home so you could copy their brilliant work for …
PRWeb Case Study: How One Small Business is Beating the Recession
PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), announced today it has published a new case study about one small business took its sales and marketing online and is beating the recession. Vedante, which sells fashionable super-reflective accessories for people and pets, transformed a bricks-and-mortar business plan into …
Tracking and analysing party political activity on Twitter
As the major political parties look to digital technology as a key part of their election campaigns, an innovative new web intelligence tool – tweetlection.co.uk – has been developed by digital specialists Sense Internet. Tweetlection tracks comments about the parties on the social networking site Twitter, and gives a picture …
Facebook achieves world domination
When Willie Walsh took over as CEO of British Airways in 2005 he was handed a poisoned chalice. The former “World’s Favourite Airline” was no longer the darling of the skies. And the company was surrounded by negativity and a hostile press. Add to that a powerful staff union, disgruntled …
Rich Baker, the Pioneer in Social Media for Organisations, Launches Conversational UK
Rich Baker, the former General Manager at Virgin Trains, today announced the launch of Conversational UK, his new venture to help businesses of all sizes with social media, online marketing, customer service, employee engagement and digital communication. Conversational UK (http://conversational-uk.co.uk) will provide support for organisations looking to digital communication and …
Poor Bill Gates exposes league table nonsense
Shock horror..! Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest individual. Instead, the Mexican telecomms supremo, Carlos Slim, has overtaken Bill to become the richest person on the planet, at least according to Forbes Magazine. He is half a billion dollars richer than Bill and is the first non-American to …
Twitter Visitors Grow Farnham Castle’s Web Traffic by a Third
Leading Surrey corporate events venue, Farnham Castle, has today announced visitor numbers to its website have grown by a third since first taking advantage of social networking sites such as Twitter, in summer 2009. Farnham Castle, which is due to be the venue for the forthcoming, social networking festival, Twestival, …
Blogging is not enough
Silence covered the room as the question was asked, but slowly one man at the back raised his hand to answer. “Ah good,” I said, “someone here has been blogging in their business. Tell us your story please.” The middle-aged, balding chap rose to his feet and stumbled out just …
Bigmouthmedia unveils British financial sector’s top social networking executives
A bigmouthmedia survey has identified the UK Finance sector’s biggest users of online social networking tools and confounded many expectations by revealing that the Finance sector has embraced the social media phenomenon more readily than those in other established industries. Some 74% of the leading executives surveyed regularly engage in …