And now for something completely different…
Continuing with the guest posts we have Matt Saunders of Northern Web (web design and marketing) with a post about social networks and businesses. This is a step away from the usual public sector / online stuff I post but a change is as good as a rest (and I’m [...]

I read an interesting post by Carl Haggerty recently called ‘Why do you participate with social media?’ which he’d written after seeing a presentation on the subject.
I have, on occasion, asked myself the same question – why do I participate? Broadly (and a bit lazily) I usually summarise with a) It’s useful and interesting b) [...]

I gave a presentation last week to other teams in the public relations division here. They covered an overview of social media and its use in online communications.
Generally I think the presentations were well received and hopefully will help us make some moves on updating existing policies and making use of relevant social media to [...]