Is Social Media Listening Still Relevant in the Age of TikTok, WhatsApp and Snapchat?
As social media users recede into private spaces, personal messaging apps and 'dark social' is social listening a worthwhile exercise for brands?
The Content Calendar is Killing Your Social Marketing
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It is often said that to succeed in content marketing you must be useful or entertaining. Because by doing this, you’re adding value to people’s lives.
Sadly, most content marketing is neither of these and therefore has no value to the people...
My Snapchat Masterclass at The Guardian’s Changing Media Summit
This session at The Guardian's tech-focussed conference took a deep dive into Snapchat's world. See and download the presentation.
Are Productivity Tools Helping Us To Procrastinate?
Do to-do apps, project management tools and the like really help productivity, or are they giving us yet another reason to indulge in useless busy-ness?
Video: My 3 Tips For Brands To Be Heard Online
My top tips to get your brand heard online, in digital and social media, through smart marketing.
Want To Get Ahead? Say “No” More Often
To achieve great things, we need to create great opportunities. But we also need to know when to turn them down. The decision to say “no” to someone is hard to make, and saying it is harder still. So how we do we arrive...
I Took a Month Off Social Media: 7 Things I Found Out
Today I’ve started using social media again after a month-long hiatus. It wasn’t a January detox thing, more just that I got busy writing a book, realised I’d been absent from Twitter, Instagram et al for a while and decided to round it up...
Your Weekly Social Media Diet
So many social media sites, so little time. This is my plan for keeping on top of it all, and getting more out of your social media life.
Weekdays
Breakfast - catch up and schedule
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How To Have Great Ideas: The 4 ‘Rooms’ of Inspiration
Thanks to my business partner Chris, who basically insisted I read it, I’ve just finished ‘A Book About Innocent’, a frank and very readable account of how three guys started (and very nearly finished) Innocent Drinks, going from a van selling 24 smoothies at...
Independent voices of 2011: Most influential non-celebrities on Twitter
The Independent listed their ‘voices of 2011’ today, highlighting the non-celebrities on Twitter who are 'setting the news agenda’. Pretty stoked to learn that I’m included in the Technology list. Being listed alongside the other eight in that list is an honour indeed :)
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