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What does a social media consultant do?
This morning, my Kiwi compatriot, Simon Young (@audaciousgloop on Twitter) answered the question in the title on his own blog, predominantly in the context of explaining to people how his company,...
View ArticleBlocking never works
I’ve talked about this issue ad nauseum in the past but it’s reared its head again in this article in the News Limited press (Brisbane’s Courier Mail, to be accurate). So, what am I talking about?...
View ArticleCrystal ball gazing
As a part of an event I have coming up, the organisers asked me to do a litte future speculation on the direction the cultural and technological aspects of social networking are taking. Here’s what I...
View ArticleMoney lenders, temple, door
My friend, Kate Carruthers, has a great blog post up in which she draws the analogy between those touting social networks as the next great place to make money and the Bible story of Jesus and the...
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Right revolution, wrong revolutionary
I’m sure many of you will have seen the video above (from the smart folks at Socialnomics). I like it a lot. But you know what? We’re too focused on the revolution and not on the revolutionaries. The...
View ArticleSocial media is harder than it looks – think before you do
Yesterday morning, I received an email from a colleague who is the Chairman of a mid-sized organisation. I’ve been helping him build an understanding of social media and what relevance it might have...
View ArticleOnline relationships – far from isolating
My friend (in both the online and physical worlds), Kate Carruthers asks an interesting question in her post Are social networks breeding social isolation? Kate concludes that for her and her circle of...
View ArticleUse the connections – recruitment and social networks
Today I spoke at Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution, where I debated (kind of) Seek’s Jake Andrew on the subject Do you need a job board when you have social networking? The text below is the...
View ArticleIt’s the (news) network, stupid
Stowe Boyd has it pretty much spot-on in his analysis of the New York Times’ announcement that it’s moving to a freemium model in 2011. Over at Reuters, the ever-eloquent Felix Salmon has his own,...
View ArticleWork or play? Network or media?
The conflation of social media (things we make and share online) and social networks (a human thing that we can, but don’t necessarily do online) is, I believe, one of the reasons organisations...
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