When unfriending is the friendly thing to do
I'm not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere. I don't have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and availab…
Tagged: personal-and-group-networking
Good Lord...it's Easter!
Or, as a Christian, I should really say "Good, Lord...it's Easter!" I have to say that I didn't expect to find myself writing a blog post today - it happened by accident after I'd approved a few comme…
The Death of Google Wave
Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of 'development has been stopped'. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunit…
Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Social Media and the mob
One of my favourite films is 'The Fisher King')- one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio 'Shock Jock' Jack Lucas repeats the words 'Forgive me' from a TV script he is hoping to star in, w…
The Birth of a Brand
As some of you may know, I'm on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in th…
Google Buzz and Google's incursion in to Social Networking
Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens 'The Borg'. It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate eve…
Facebook friends limited to 150 by the brain?
As anyone who's ever heard me rant about the 'numbers game' side of networking - especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook - will testify, I'm a great believer in quality rather than …
The dumbing down of Twitter starts here?
I'll admit it. Deep within me is a snob. As far as I'm concerned, the online world started heading down hill when you no longer had to know how to install a full TCP/IP stack to use the Internet. M…
The Social Media Numbers Game
I'm old enough to have used an address book and still have a Rolodex on the phone table. When I actually sit down and think about the people with whom I have reasonably regular 'quality' contact in a…