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Holiday

I’m going to be on holiday from Monday 28th and will be back at work on Tuesday October 6th. Unlike most of my holidays I’m actually going to switch everything off. No Internet, no phone, no Twitter, no email – nothing digital at all. I might read a book but that’ll be it for media. [...]

Stuff I’ve been reading

Online Database of Social Media Policies99 (and growing) policies from a variety of organisations. I haven't dug into this yet but if you're looking to develop a social media policy for your org you might find a good template here. I'd caution that while some are doing this well it's doubtful anyone's getting it completely [...]

Sharing the booty

The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo Saxon gold has understandably gotten a lot of coverage today with the news outlets doing a pretty good job (from my positional as a layman) of explaining the significance and importance of the find. But I just discovered something interesting from a social media perspective – their [...]

Connected doesn’t always mean digitally connected

Last Thursday I attended 4ip’s Recasting Power event in Birmingham. With presentations including Stoke’s grass-roots website Pits ‘n’ Pots and Nick Booth talking about Help Me Investigate and Big City Talk, a panel of politicians discussed with the audience what this all meant.
As is often the case it was partly inspiring and partly irritating and, [...]

Somewhat amusingly, I fail at fail

I’ve had a pretty strange year. In some ways it’s been fantastic and in other ways it’s been not so fantastic, but, as they say, I guess that’s life.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this summer, probably to much thinking which won’t surprise those who know me, about what exactly it is I’m [...]