This post was originally going to be something completely different. It was either going to be a follow-up to my Twitter mobile app post, or a look at social media relationships and the connection to message and content. Both these will come – but for now, I want to talk about something that happened today. I was on a call earlier with Lotay Yang, founder of Black Card Circle and Black Card Circle Foundation. Lotay is an incredibly inspiring individual…

After debating whether to move my blog commenting system over to DISQUS, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and do it. (Update November 30 2009 – I have moved back to the WordPress comments system, you can find out why here.) I’ve actually had the system on my blog before, prior to changing to the Thesis (now Headway) theme. Then, for some reason, DISQUS just wouldn’t work. I’m not technical enough to understand why not – suffice to say I…

I’m a mobile Luddite. I don’t have an iPhone or Blackberry (although I do like the look of the new Palm Pre) and to be honest I’m not too bothered about having a smart phone at the minute. Now you might say that for someone that is involved in the online world as I am, not having an iPhone or similar makes me some kind of heathen. And maybe it does. But here’s the thing. I’m a people person. I…

You’re a public relations professional or agency. How are you monitoring your brand and those of your clients? You are actually monitoring, right? I ask on the back of an interesting story regarding Michigan-based PR firm Tanner Friedman and their current lawsuit regarding a fake Twitter account. Back in January this year, an account was set up on Twitter that used the name @TannerFriedman. For anyone seeing the tweets from the account, you might expect them to be the latest…

This weekend, Zoompass™ was launched in Canada by the three leading Canadian wireless operators – Rogers, Bell and Telus. It’s a money transfer system for mobile phones – yet it could also become a marketer’s dream. What is Zoompass? A collaboration between the three leading wireless networks in Canada, Zoompass is a new application that you can either download to your mobile phone or use via both mobile and standard web. What it then allows you to do is to…

Children fear nothing. They may be scared of something, but it’s a different kind of fear. They want to check out everything around them. They look at things differently from us. They see unique and new; we see “been there, done that”. Children have that innocence that says everything has yet to be discovered. They don’t care about the safe, the boring – they want fresh and exciting. They see the world through the eyes of someone that doesn’t know…

Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week. Something a little different this week (and I realize it goes against my reasons for taking it to the blog – just listing names – but there’s a reason this week). Everyone featured today fits into many different categories but one thing they all have in common is that they’re proud wearers of…

“You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” – Ricky Nelson. It’s been an interesting last 24 hours. Abusive emails, character attacks on Twitter and questions about my ethics. Just another day in the life of. Time is an interesting commodity. On the one hand, we love it when time passes quickly so we can see a new movie, or buy a new product, or see a new date. On the other, we complain there’s never enough time…

There’s been a lot of talk about the relationship between the public relations industry and bloggers. I’ve written about it in the past as have others, yet still there’s this feeling of a barrier between the two mediums. As someone on both sides of the fence, I can understand each side’s views. Yet I can also see where both sides could improve. So, with no bias to either the PR industry or bloggers, here are some suggestions to help both…

A-ha! Okay, now that the ABBA/Alan Partridge reference is out of the way (and sorry, I couldn’t resist!), I’d like to ask you a question. Okay, a few questions, I guess. What do you want to read? What do you want to know about? What can I help you with? How can I help you improve (and, in doing so, continue to improve myself)? I write about social media. I write about PR. I write about marketing. I write about…