Category: Reputation

  • Influence rank: the shape of recruitment to come

    If your job embraces community building and engagement across the social web, does your ranking on an online influence-measurement service like Klout matter? For some companies and recruiters, it certainly does. A case in point – Salesforce.com has a job…

  • Should you trust Twitter?

    So the kerfuffle over Twitter’s suspension of journalist Guy Adams’ account has ended, with the company reinstating it and issuing an apology of sorts. Adams, the Los Angeles-based correspondent for The Independent newspaper, had been posting a series of tweets…

  • Humour’s a funny thing

    What’s funny to you or I may not be to anyone else. Case in point – SpecSavers‘ press ad in the UK today over the Korean flag mixup at #London2012. I can see the humour certainly. But I wonder how…

  • Paying with your smartphone at Starbucks UK

    When Starbucks announced recently that an Android app is now available in the UK to let you pay for your coffee and other products in store with that app, I was looking forward to trying it out. And I finally…

  • RIP Blackberry

    A great analysis in The New York Times magazine of RIM and brand destruction. This share price chart says it all. Story: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/how-the-blackberry-died.html Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.