This post is a shameful copy of Richard Bailey’s post from September. However it interested me due to the different ways people approach different social networks. Facebook I use this network for my friends, family and colleagues – never for business purposes. Increasingly I am finding Facebook great for sharing photos with my friends but not so useful for communication. Event notifications have... 

Last night I participated in the #CommsChat session on Twitter. More information about the sessions can be found on their website. If you are a PR Student or communications professional then I highly recommend you join in with the discussions. This blog post is inspired from last night’s discussions. The Rise of Gamification Gamification is a concept which has been around for a while but this year... 

Did you know that an increasing amount of employers are using social media to check out applicants? So before you send off your CV here are five of my tips: 1. Google Yourself Think like an employer. The first thing I would do would be to visit Google and type in the applicants name perhaps followed by something relevant to their experiences or education on their CV. For instance, when I type ‘Michael... 

Our New Facebook Page: Musings of a PR Student It has been late coming but this marvellous little website can now be found on Facebook. If you could ‘like’ our page, even recommend this blog to friends, then you would be of great help! Being on Facebook isn’t a necessity for building traffic but rather an impromptus quirky oddity which could prove to be a good move or a failure. Let’s see just... 

I’m not usually one to complain about the various ways people use language. When venturing into the realm of linguistics I am wholly relativist. I fully understand that language is in a constant state of flux, forming around the way we live our lives, largely dependent on the activities of our era and most importantly integral to who you are – unique. Over the last couple of months a single acronym... 

Aren Grimshaw delves into the community building and engagement aspects of social media. Highlighting on his own experience of how the Cornish business community use social networks to get around the challenges of difficult geographical areas. Looking at the principles behind Social Media Café/Tuttle clubs and how they bring different parts of the community together. The #AddMe Conference was arranged... 

The longer I stay on Facebook the more annoyed I seem to get at it. It starts from the pathetic adverts which, when read downwards, seem to act as a sort of “life list”. Today Facebook is telling me that I should get a girlfriend, play poker and then pre-order the new AC/DC Iron Man album. I dread to think how many accumulated hours have been wasted by the 350 million users Facebook now has. The... 

Facebook has been changing in a profound way. The introduction of public usernames, friend limits have been raised, a change in privacy options, the drop in developer’s support and a calm down from user registrations. Just what is happening to Facebook? Is Facebook trying to change how users use their social networking services to gain more popularity? The ramble continues… in a dangerous...