A simple "thanks" can go a long way to making an online interaction that little bit smoother. I've started posting the odd review of various venues on TripAdvisor and one of the things that's really fascinated and impressed me is their emails. Every time you post a review you get a nice little "thank you" email. It's not complicated. It's not tacky, but, to me at … [Read more...] about Saying Thanks Is Good!
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If Social Media Updates Had Context
Sometimes people, including me, post things on social networks that don't make a lot of sense as they lack context. XKCD's recent comic: … [Read more...] about If Social Media Updates Had Context
What The Hell Am I Doing With These “Archives” Tweets?
Anyone who knows me probably knows that I like to experiment and play around with technology, tools, software etc., For the last week or so I've been running an experiment with this blog's older posts and Twitter. Basically I've been sending links to some of my older blog posts out via Twitter, which is why they're "tagged" as "from the archives". When I first started … [Read more...] about What The Hell Am I Doing With These “Archives” Tweets?
Organising A Tweetup In Prague During ICANN 44
If you're attending the ICANN meeting in Prague next week (or starting this weekend - depends on your view) I'm trying to organise a tweetup. So what's a "tweetup"? It's basically an informal social event for people who "know" each other via Twitter (and other social networks) to get to meet each other in real life. Venue? At this stage it looks like it could be one … [Read more...] about Organising A Tweetup In Prague During ICANN 44
Visualising Social Via Intel
Intel have done a few interesting things with social media in the past. One of their tools does an interesting job of sucking in Facebook, Twitter and Youtube and generating a visualisation or infographic of your personal social media activity. Whether it's a reflection of you or not will probably depend on how much you actually share via social media sites Here's … [Read more...] about Visualising Social Via Intel