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Category: Communication

  • Facebook’s big number: 250 million

    Social networking site Facebook said today that its user base now comprises over 250 million people around the world. While the announcement post by founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t especially compelling (it reads like a rather un-compelling corporate announcement), the interactive…

  • Teen views on what’s hot and what’s not

    The story of the teenager on work experience at financial services firm  Morgan Stanley in London – what my American friends call an ‘intern’ – who wrote a research paper on teenagers’ online media habits has grabbed attention everywhere as…

  • Easy FT on the iPhone

    The Financial Times has joined the growing group of media companies offering an easy means for readers and subscribers to access the newspaper’s online content from wherever they happen to be via a bespoke app for the iPhone. Today the…

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  • Job requirement: Twitter followers

    A recruitment ad for a Sr. Manager – Emerging Media Marketing Job at US retailer Best Buy includes an item under the “Preferred Qualifications” heading that applicants have “250 plus followers on Twitter.” I guess it’s one way of noting…

  • Blogging requires personal participation

    Yesterday I led a workshop on blogging in London for the CIPR during which the group spent a bit of time talking about ghost blogging. Scott Adams’ perceptive Dilbert cartoon, first published two years ago, takes an extreme but comical…