Too many platforms, too little time Long ago I lost count of all the possible social media platforms and tools a business might reasonably use. And in my email and on various newsfeeds I see more new ones being announced or talked about every day. That proliferation of possibilities probably helps explain why for many…
After several years of active involvement with blogging, social networking and what we now call social media, I am very conscious of the need, in the business context, to have some strategies and systems in place, firstly to retain our sanity and then to achieve our business objectives. We also need, from time to time…
Having been in a former life trained as an historian, I get a special enjoyment out of hearing very tech-savvy people explain technologies within an historical context. And preferably a context which recognizes that there were events of importance happening before the Internet arrived! One such explanation, which starts not from sixty years ago but…
According to a new survey on business applications of social media, blogging is not old news, but actually looks set for a bright future. Although it suits some commentators to proclaim the demise of blogging, Josh Gordon in his report The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications, says that blogging is shaping up, along…
On the strength of a report by the company Linkme, which describes itself online as “an online career resource”, it has been claimed that online social networking site Facebook use is costing Australian employers $2,700 (US$2365.41) per employee per year. Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, not to let a few hundred dollars get in the way of…
This may look like an Australian story. It is that, but it’s bigger, because it is significant for citizens of any democratic country and others who cherish democratic principles. The new Australian government has announced stringent new controls over the Internet. According to the report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s site, Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister…