What does social media mean to you? What does your use of social media say about you? If a tweet falls in a forest and no-one hears it, does it make a sound? Summertime and the tweeting is easy. For many of us in 2016, high summer brings not just thoughts of getting away from […]
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For friendship, for learning and for giving?
What can social media give you? What can social media help you to give to others? What’s the best thing social media has done for you lately? Care to share? Social media offers and enables so much. At its best, social media can enable people to come together and give of their best in a […]
Twitterversary time: The seven year Twitch?
When’s your Twitterversary? If you tweet, what has your time a-tweeting meant to you? Is it a love thing? And is it possible to tire of the conversation that never sleeps? The seven year itch describes a moment seven years into long-term relationships when cracks start to appear. In terms of my Twitter life, what […]
Tall tweets: What is Twitter’s ‘thing’?
Twitter offers connection across all boundaries and beauty in brevity. So will the rumoured extension of tweet lengths spoil Twitter’s ‘thing’? And just what is Twitter’s ‘thing’ anyway? Are you ready for the era of the tall tweet? Coming this year, the rumoured increase in tweet lengths from 140 characters to perhaps as many as […]
#7songs: John Peel, King Tubby, sharing & whingeing
If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? I love music so much and I love so much music that this has posed a serious challenge for me*. But after much deliberation, here’s song the first. John Peel. Two words to make the true music fan of a certain […]
Don’t live your life on social
How do you use social media? What does social media do for you? Care to share? There is much to love about social media. One of the things I love most about it is that there aren’t really any rules as to how you use it. Social media is just a means of expression. Social […]
Did you just miss the love of your life?
How much of your life are you devoting to events that never really happened, and never will? Can wasting time be forgiven? It’s never too late… Rather than embracing technology, young folks should be “embracing each other.” So says Sir Ian McKellen in a podcast I had the pleasure to listen to this week. He […]
Away from the rectangles
Tune out, turn off, drop out. How tough do you find it to switch off from the myriad modes of communication, distraction, delight and infuriation that our magnificent modern world has to offer? Do you suffer from a terminal fear of missing out (FOMO)? Why do you think that might be? My ever-eloquent friend Heather […]
Write with purpose, expecting nothing in return
What’s the best medium for self-expression for you? If you’re of the blogging persuasion, what do you think makes for compelling, authentic writing? I had a highly enjoyable Twitter chat on these topics with US blogger and outstanding gent Christopher De Mers recently. Christopher has written a post entitled Selfies, which identifies four key qualities […]
My Social Media Half-Year Honours List 2014
How has the first half of 2014 been for you? Who has made a real difference to your year? Who has helped you this year, whether by what they do, what they say, or just by being there/being themselves? It’s scarcely credible, but 2014 is nearly half gone. To date, 2014 has been rather an […]
