Category: Workplace

  • A window into Twitter with TweetStats

      Lots of people have opinions about Twitter, ranging from a complete waste of time to the indispensable connector with your community. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, this video by Lee Lefever will explain it all.) I’m firmly…

  • Consequences for not having a blogging policy

    All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by. Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging. At least, that’s what it looked…

  • The key for Microsoft and Yahoo

    It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google…

  • The complexity of combining Microsoft and Yahoo

    Yesterday’s news about Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion (£22.6bn) bid to acquire Yahoo has, unsurprisingly, made headlines around the world. Plenty of commentators have been quick to analyse what the combination might mean to the tech business and, in particular, search…

  • Social media and PR from the digital immigrant perspective

    Over the next few months, I’m leading a couple of half-day workshops for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) as part of their CIPR Masterclass training programme. The first of these takes place on February 26 at the CIPR’s…