A high street renaissance?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Amid the spoils of a slow news day – awash with hysteria about Cameron’s baby and yawnsome analysis of X factor’s first episode – not to mention a cat in a bin (it is August after all), I was heartened to read a small feature that will hopefully have much ...

A lesson in ‘politwits’

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Day in, day out, high profile tweeters continue to grab headlines, and the latest is president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. In terms of international politics, he certainly doesn't march to the same beat as the majority of his counterparts. In fact, it's fair to say that his controversial politics command ...

Facebook owes us

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Facebook is officially the most used website in the world. 500 million of us are logging on and it costs us absolutely zilch. There's been press coverage aplenty promising that we'll never have to pay to use the site. That's nothing new, but what if I told you that Facebook ...

You are my chosen one – The PR power of the celebrity

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

I have about 600 friends on Facebook. I use the term ‘friend’ loosely, since I would probably only choose to speak to about 200 of them via ‘chat’. It was refreshing then, to read that rap star, Kanye West, has only one ‘friend’ who he follows on Twitter – nineteen-year-old Stephen ...

AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 DAYS… VIA TWITTER

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Freelance writer Paul Smith was able to travel across the globe for free – using only Twitter as a means of securing travel and accommodation. In a display of social media power, Paul was given a complimentary flight by Air New Zealand, accessed a celeb-filled fashion week party in Hollywood, ...