Posted on Ladies and gentlemen, in Northern England this week a powerboat was dumped on the street and as a result Doncaster Council won the internet. The speed boat will not be the only thing dumped across the country with the cost likely to top £50 million across the UK. Every council across the country is forced […]
Posted on The best day to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best day is today. It’s the same for you and your team. The skills you need to communicate have been changing. A few years back I blogged a list of skills that every team needed. This started as a list of 40 […]
Posted on There is nothing that is quite as good as showing you the fractured landscape than video. Time was when there was one home for video and that was on YouTube. You filmed it, posted it to YouTube and then pasted the URL all over the web but no longer. How different optimum video length was […]
Posted on Just last week while delivering training something struck me that had been right under my nose. You do not need a picture editor on the internet. The thought had never occurred to me before. A picture editor when I was a journalist was the gatekeeper who decided what image went where. They could pick a […]
Posted on A good comms plan helps you to get to where you want to go… without one you are almost certainly going to fail. You can fire a rocket into the sky and you might successfully hit the moon but the chances are you won’t. Back in 1969 when NASA put a man on the moon […]
Posted on When a terror attack struck London the people who ran towards it were members of the public sector. We’re used to seeing police act when a man with a gun is on the loose. Brave? Yes. That’s what they’re trained for, isn’t it? But nurses and doctors running from a nearby hospital towards the noise? […]
Posted on You need to think about fake news. Not the click-bait churned out by Moldovan teenagers in their bedrooms but the stuff on your neighbourhood Facebook group or page and newspaper comments page. Around the village, estate, town or city where you live and work there are scores of groups and pages. On the internet, it’s […]
Posted on ‘It wasn’t supposed to be like this,’ is the first line of a blog post about post-truth and the internet I never got around to finishing. Why didn’t I finish it? Maybe because the very tools that I had such faith in when I first came across the social web are the tools that have […]
Posted on The issue of social media bubbles has become a bubble of its own just lately. Post-Trump, post-Brexit and post-truth the issue is this. People build their own bubble from people of a smilar view. Driving home today listening to Radio 4 I came upon a rather excellent programme Bursting the Social Media Bubble. The iplayer […]
Posted on Reading through the post-Trump and post-Brexit assessment of where we are one passage stood out. It’s from David Simas, Barack Obama’s political director, in a lengthy New Yorker piece you can read here. It’s touches upon Facebook fake news and echo chambers: “Until recently, religious institutions, academia, and media set out the parameters of acceptable […]