Bradford Social Media Surgery Needs Your Help
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by benmckenna in Blog, Community, Policy, Technology
Recently a group of interested parties met up in a Bier Café in Bradford to discuss how we re-boot the Bradford Social Media Surgery. Yes, there were some cold beverages taken but the main topic of discussion of how we make the BDSMS more relevant and tailored to the people of the district. The concept of [...]
The web in 2010, an edited highlights package
Posted on 30. Dec, 2010 by benmckenna in Advertising, Apps, Blog, News, Technology, Twitter
The past year has been a bit of a strange one in the tech world. In many ways this should have been the year that web technology “broke”, this was true in more than one sense with Facebook becoming the subject of a Hollywood blockbuster and Apple – generally thought of as invincibly slick – [...]
These views are my own
Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by benmckenna in Blog, Policy, Technology, Twitter
The title to this blog appears, in one way or another, in the bio section of an alarming amount of profiles across the social web. You may have hardly noticed it or possibly just taken it for granted but it’s very illustrative of the current state of play in the relationship between society, work and [...]
Facebook: Snow White or Big Bad Wolf?
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by benmckenna in Advertising, Blog, Technology
Facebook continues to be big news – and let’s face it, when is it not nowadays? – but the world’s biggest social network seems to be attracting more and more press of the wrong type in recent times. Since last year’s change to the privacy terms and conditions, a move which in itself attracted enough [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Four
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in Blog, Technology
Totaal’s rattle through the realms of visual information continues apace with this, the last post in the Infographics Week series. We’ve returned to script somewhat with Social Media one again the main focus, like it or lump it Social Media is a great focus for the infographicists of the world so hopefully after yesterday’s diversion [...]
Twitter style ads help Facebook buck the market trend
Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in Advertising, Blog
Facebook’s recent buzz has all been about their “Twittification”, reducing the former enjoyable randomness of Facebook to a homogenous Twitter feed. It’s caused all sorts of ructions and mutinies among users with the predictable Facebook groups being set up to demand that the system be scrapped and the norm returned to. Haha Facebook, now you [...]
