Category: Social Networks

  • Skype in is Skype out for some users

    With the success some Facebook groups have had recently in influencing opinion or even changing courses of action by large organizations, I wonder what the results will be for a new protest group that’s been formed on the social networking…

  • The saviour for English football

    I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday. I’m a bit outside the target demographic :) But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that…

  • Meeting the wizard of AUS

    I was in London for much of the day yesterday. For a wholly professional reason during the morning, and then for a very pleasant lunch. I met Trevor Cook. Trevor’s one of the very first PR bloggers I became virtually…

  • UK most attuned to social networks

    The UK has the most social networkers in Europe, with almost a fifth of all internet users regularly visiting sites like Bebo, Hi5, Facebook and MySpace. According to BrandRepublic, that’s the key message in Social Networking Across Europe, a new…

  • The rise of conversational advertising

    The latest edition of The Economist asks whether Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites can transform advertising. There’s already plenty of activity on social networks such as these by companies large and small, using their brands as personalities in endeavours…