Category Archives: Social Media

Samantha Brick: fool or genius?

Written by monkey. Posted on April 5, 2012. Filed under Blogs and blogging, Comment, Display ads, Social Media. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Samantha Brick

Is Samantha Brick a fool or a genuis? There’s little doubt her article bemoaning her own beauty was misguided, whether because you disagree with her high regard for her looks, or detest her abysmal view of the female of the species. Or perhaps just her … Read More →

The Pinterest Copyright Dilemna

Written by monkey. Posted on February 22, 2012. Filed under Apps, Online tools, Social Media. Tagged , . No comments.
Pinterest copyright Etsy store

An artist wants people to enjoy their work, but not to lose out on a living income from their work. A budding jewellery maker wants potential buyers to see his forthcoming designs, but doesn’t want big companies to steal those ideas. A photographer wants her … Read More →

What is social media for?

Written by monkey. Posted on February 9, 2012. Filed under Social Media. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Social Media Explained What is Social Media For

What is social media for? Connecting? Linking? Meeting? Sharing? Finding? Networking? Expressing? Belonging? Absolute donuts.

Pinterest

Written by monkey. Posted on January 20, 2012. Filed under Apps, Online tools, Social Media. Tagged , . No comments.
pinterest pinning

Social media is responsible for all sorts of neologisms, portmanteaus and acronyms. Poking, tweeple and RT being just three. As well as liking, @replying and tumbling, we can now ‘pin’. And of all the social media platforms, Pinterest is one of the most useful. Simple … Read More →

The Madness of BetFairPoker

Written by monkey. Posted on July 27, 2011. Filed under Brand awareness, Social Media. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Bet Fair Pokers twitter love affair Dallas

Recently it seems the world has been going mad. It was always a pretty wacky world really (real life is always weirder than fiction of course). But lately everything just seems more surreal than normal. For instance, NASA have been given jurisdiction over the Scottish Premier League television rights. NASA?! … Read More →

Alternative Google Plus circles

Written by monkey. Posted on July 20, 2011. Filed under Social Media. Tagged . No comments.
Alternative Google circles

Happy Place crack another missed opportunity with this little visual ditty. Wish I’d thought of it… Click to see the full version (and thanks Happy Place!)

Social media: the new wall of shame

Written by monkey. Posted on May 9, 2011. Filed under Social Media. No comments.
social media wall

Once upon a time people used to write obscenities on walls. A marker pen in a toilet cubicle, a spray can of paint round the back of the bike sheds, a blunt knife and a sycamore tree. These were the tools of the cowardly bullies … Read More →

The future is in us but may not be us

Written by monkey. Posted on February 24, 2011. Filed under Comment, Social Media, Viral. Tagged , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
get-off-the-internet-day-web

Mystic Meg tried to predict it. Arthur C. Clarke and HG Wells were intrgued by it. George Orwell nailed it more than he could imagine. The future. How do you pre-empt the next big thing? How do you calculate how people will behave beyond iPads? How do you … Read More →

Mr Zuckerberg I want my interests back please

Written by monkey. Posted on July 23, 2010. Filed under Data, Social Media. Tagged , , , . No comments.

Now apart from the fact that Facebook and Twitter have robbed me off my privacy (ok, so I opted to give it to them) and also my ability to think of anything else to do with my time (inevitably I simply log on and wait … Read More →

LinkedIn election poll

Written by monkey. Posted on May 5, 2010. Filed under Digital, Social Media. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
LinkedIn Election Poll - UK General Election May 2010

LinkedIn are conducting an election poll and the results seem to confirm a few assumptions I’d already made about the electorate: Creative types are more liberal and idealistic (and I think this applies to social media and digital geeks too) Business leaders have lost confidence … Read More →

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