Social Media Training, some reflections
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, PR, Policy, Technology, Twitter, cool
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering Totaal’s first large-scale Social Media Training session at Immage Studios in North East Lincolnshire. I have done many a one-on-one and small group session before but this one was a very different animal indeed.
All in all there were twelve different attendees and representatives from two different companies, [...]
Google Buzz, what’s all the fuss about?
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
Fresh on the heels of the release of Google Wave, billed as a panacea to the problems of communicating by email but in reality just a neat little collaborative tool, Google have released their next product, Buzz. As is becoming customary with Google, the hyperbole was again laid on with a trowel, this time they [...]
Twitter plans to finally put squeeze on clients
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
It’s always been a bit of a puzzler for me quite why twitter let their client ecosystem blossom so enthusiastically, I blogged about it before a couple of times speculating here about whether they were finally making the move against clients with their lists feature.
Alex Payne, an engineer at Twitter and head of the API [...]
Is Twitter’s star finally losing its twinkle?
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter
It’s pretty fair to say that 2009 was “The Year of the Tweet”. There’s hardly a TV or Radio show or media personality that doesnt have a twitter account. In some cases there are several, with excellent spoofing of some ’slebs too. In 2009 Twitter users went from five to thirty million users and between [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the single biggest threat to the Social Web
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter
Chances are that, if you know anybody involved in web development, design or usability, you will already be aware of this but I’m still amazed by how many aren’t. The biggest threat that the Social Web faces today isn’t authoritarian governments, lack of broadband availability or even piracy or hackers. This pervasive threat actually comes [...]
Future of Web Apps highlights (#fowa)
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
It’s official, Carsonified’s excellent Future of Web Apps conference in London chewed me up, spat me out and landed me back in sunny Yorkshire. I’ve had a ball over the three days catching up with some friends and generally talking tech stuff with tech people. Really the only apt way to describe it would be [...]
Five Twitter tools that you’d be mad not to use
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
Obviously Twitter being news isnt really news any more, strangely though many people I know who have embraced digitality with admirable gusto still dont really get it. Essentially what happens is that Josh or Jade Public sign up to their Twitter account, look up @wossy etc and then wander off bored. Try as I might [...]