Category: Communication

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • The emerging self-distribution news model

    Following the July 30 announcement from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about new guidance concerning Regulation FD, there has been plenty of online commentary and opinion on what people think it means for business, investors and communicators. The…

  • Social media gains SEC approval

    Yesterday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new guidance for publicly-listed companies in using traditional websites and social media channels like blogs to meet the SEC’s public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD. Regulation FD (‘fair disclosure’) sets out…

  • Making your blog look good on a mobile device

    When visiting websites on your mobile device, there’s nothing more frustrating than waiting for a site to load when that site contains huge numbers of images and other graphical paraphernalia. It gets downright annoying when you’re on a cellular connection…

  • The tipping point for Twitter is coming

    Twitter suffered an unplanned outage this afternoon. Not on the scale of the troubles Twitter has suffered during much of this year – things are definitely getting better – but an outage all the same. What’s a Twitterer to do…