Category: Communication

  • Twitter squarely on the mainstream map

    Hot news in the US yesterday was the popularity contest between TV actor Ashton Kutcher (the current husband of Demi Moore) and the CNN TV network to see who would be the first to acquire one million followers on Twitter.…

  • Get the WSJ on your iPhone

    I used to be a paying subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, one of only two newspapers whose online content I’m willing to pay for (the other being the Financial Times). When it came to the toss a few years…

  • Social media baptism for Domino’s Pizza

    Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza‘s leadership and the communication team. It was a day during which the number of people who viewed a nasty video posted to YouTube by two rogue employees approached a million,  thousands of…

  • Note to Domino’s Pizza: News travels fast, especially when it’s bad

    (This post was updated during April 15 as events evolved: scroll down to see additional commentary.) A public relations disaster of potentially epic proportions is brewing for Domino’s Pizza following the antics of two employees and a video on YouTube.…

  • The tipping point for UK political blogs

    Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger…