Category: Social Media

  • Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    One of the startling metrics in a global survey on how technology businesses use social media is one that shows one in five technology industry executives  – that’s 20 percent of those surveyed – saying that a job candidate’s social…

  • Good words on the Social Media MBA

    Last year, I wrote and contributed a chapter to The Social Media MBA, a collaborative book published in the UK in January 2012 and in the US in February. I heard from the book’s editor, Christer Holloman, the other day…

  • A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A milestone has been reached in the evolution of factual reference information with news that probably the most famous of all general reference works in the English language, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will stop making the printed encyclopedia after 244 years…

  • Twitter hashtags: spam magnets

    One of the most useful engagement tools for a conference is a Twitter hashtag. This little device, where a word is connected to the hash symbol (#) – known as a pound sign in the US – is a useful…

  • Learn from Tesco on how to do wifi right

    If you have trouble finding wireless internet connectivity when in London – in particular, connectivity that’s free of financial payment – look no further for advice than James Cridland‘s comprehensive listing of where to get free wifi in London. James…