Social Media

Time for a good blether

November 22, 2011

Twitter is great, but when you’re trying to hold a private conversation with someone it gets a little clunky. To fire direct messages back and forward, both parties have to be following each other. That’s not too bad on the face of it, except when you want to say something privately to, say, your mobile [...]

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Is LinkedIn Useful?

January 19, 2011
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Social media is a powerful tool. Services like Twitter have enabled me to connect with contacts all over the world, and opened up opportunities like paid writing gigs, and even test-driving a few cars for review. Facebook is a slightly different affair; much more about keeping up with friends and, if I’m honest, playing games, [...]

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Social Media Training in Edinburgh [postponed]

December 20, 2010

Use social media and social networking to increase your business – seminars by Mike and Julie Cliffe-Jones, 23rd Feb 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Is Path the way forward for social media?

November 23, 2010
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Path, the iPhone-based social app, encourages you to share photos with your nearest and dearest.

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Ping – the unholy union of iTunes and social networking

September 14, 2010
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Ping brings a social element to iTunes, but does it work? And can it compete with the already established music/social networks?

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Could mflow give you free music for life?

July 12, 2010
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Could music recommendation service “mflow” give you free music for life?

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Please Rob Me!

February 18, 2010
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Could sharing your location be leaving you open to burglary? PleaseRobMe.com aims to make you think carefully about your online habits.

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News in the “New Media”

October 28, 2009
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How do you get your news these days? With social networking sites breaking more and more stories, are we getting closer to the action all the time?

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A Month of Plurking

July 9, 2008

Plurking… sounds a bit dodgy if you ask me. Plurk is actually another take on the microblogging and social networking scene (a la Twitter). Here, Chris presents his early impressions of the service, and how he’s got on with it for the first month.

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