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Thoughts on the MA in Social Media

March 31st, 2009 · Comments

There’s been a lot of discussion about the new MA in Social Media course being offered by Birmingham City University. On the one hand, the mainstream media reports from the Guardian and Daily Telegraph have focused on criticism – on the other, people like the esteemed PR professional Neville Hobson have looked more in-depth at [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture

First experience with Google Friend Connect on my Wordpress blog

December 5th, 2008 · Comments

You may have spotted an interesting new widget on the right side of the site, under the search box. And you’d probably have spotted it’s an example of Google Friend Connect, released into the wild!
If you haven’t heard about Google and Facebooks rival attempts to provide a way to carry a single identity around the [...]

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Tags: community

Listening pleasure and Twitter earnings…

September 2nd, 2008 · Comments

I received a good response after yesterday post on Virgin Radio becoming Absolute Radio…thanks to everyone that Stumbled, Dugg, or Twittered it, or came along and had a look.
I must have audio on my mind, because although I’m not a huge fan of podcasts, there are a couple I felt I should mention.  I’ve never [...]

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Tags: twitter