Digital by Default

Tag: social media

  • Farewell old friends (reunited)

    So Friends Reunited is closing down. Really did anyone really know it was still going? It had long since been superseded in the public consciousness by Facebook — hell probably even by Peach. I remember happier times for the Friends though. At the turn of the naughties before social media was anything more than a twinkle in…

  • Premature exasperation

    The last 48 hours my Twitter stream has been all a flutter about two things — the expansion of Twitter character limit to 10,000 which is significant inflation from the existing 140 and the next iPhone replacing the standard headphone something with some thing more Apple shaped and non-standard. Honestly I’m not much of a fan of…

  • Pimping Postling

    Just a short post to say after considerable research and alot of false starts I have finally settled on a replacement for CoTweet. I originally wrote about this back in February and since then have experimented with a few tools but none quite fitted our needs. Either they were too expensive, too complex or both!…

  • Pre-owned principles for social media

    The last few weeks it seems circumstances been converging in a way that has been forcing me to refresh my thinking around social media in a work context. Stephen and Tim both wrote posts that got the gears turning, I was also invited to speak about social media to a new audience and alongside the…