Category: Web

  • Social media takeaways from Barcelona

    Barcelona in late November: a colder place than I expected it to be when I arrived last Wednesday, my first visit since 2006 to this Spanish city on the Mediterranean coast. The climate might have been cold but the buzz…

  • Contemporary suits Ferrero

    One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on…

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…

  • Getting social in Barcelona

    A pre crack-of-dawn flight from Gatwick tomorrow will take me to Barcelona, Spain, and the New Media in Marketing & Communications Strategy conference that starts tomorrow Wednesday November 26 and runs through the end of Thursday November 27. The event…

  • Spam blogging by any other name

    I’m sure there will be some people who sign up for WordPressDirect who will do so thinking it presents a quick and easy way to crank out blog posts with minimum effort. Looking through the website, though, it seems to…