Social Media for Business: debunking some myths
We’re some way into the 21st century and yet ‘making money online’ remains the holy grail of many who harp back to the heady dot-com, get-rich-quick days. The mass uptake of social media such as blogs,...
View ArticleSocial media and banking
Tomorrow morning, I’m speaking to over 100 bankers on social media and business. I’m curious about how receptive bankers are to the notion of disruptive technologies and empowered clients. In the past...
View ArticleManaging Information overload
We are suffering from information overload and it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. There is no single tool that can take over as our automated infotention tool for detecting, filtering,...
View ArticleA conversation about social media strategy
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Joakim Nilsson skyped me for a late night chat on the read/write web and social media strategy. I know.. I should have shaved, put the lights on and stopped waving my...
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Say Everything
Say Everything is one of my favourite books. Not just because it covers the history of blogging, which is at the core of my doctoral research – but also because it encapsulates the empowerment we...
View ArticleCuration is the new attention
My favourite curation site is Brain Pickings. It’s a labour of love, quirky, informative. It was via Brain Pickings that I came across the video I have embedded in this blog. In the old days, I would...
View ArticleWhy social media will continue to challenge and frustrate businesses of old
A few years ago, when I’d suggest that social media would disrupt many business models and core organisational functions, I would wait for the first eyebrow in the audience to get raised. I’d explain...
View ArticleGoogle’s privacy policy for dummies
When was the last time you worried about your online data? Or what Facebook and Google do with the content we create on their platforms? Most of us don’t read the fine print and rely on others to...
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Trusting Google and Infographics
No sooner had the previous post gone up that I received an email request to share the infographic below. It took me precisely ten seconds to scan the material before I decided to embed the code. I...
View ArticleThe power and threat of social media networks
There’s nothing like a birthday for some introspection. I’ve spent the past three years studying claims for the potential of social media to disrupt systems of power in bounded communities –...
View ArticleThe future of the book must start with education
I’ve been asked to run a digital marketing course at the University of Malta. I have to build the course in a modular way, using a set text book. As academic books go, it’s solid content, with case...
View ArticleFrom Social Media to Neuroscience to MOOCs and Mobile Education
My post-PhD work has taken me into three distinct, but correlated areas. The first is teaching. I have developed a 14-module social media strategy course from the ground up for marketing undergraduates...
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Social Media and Control
On Thursday 19 November, I am running a public talk with my friend Bryan Alexander for the Strickland Foundation in Malta. The headline for our talk – ‘Is Social Media controlling our lives?’ – was...
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NGOs and the mindful use of social media
I’m currently teaching a crash course called ‘Understanding Social Media’ for students following a Masters in Humanitarian Action at the University of Malta. On the 30th April, the seminar is open...
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Teaching Social Media & 21st century communications
Tomorrow I start to teach a new course at the University of Malta, focusing on production, content, participation, meaning and power in social media and 21st century communications. I teach because it...
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