I’ve spent the last year trying to find a way of organising and making sense of the information that comes through Twitter, Facebook and Google+ TweetDeck is useful to organise things by category, keyword or people despite being prone to crashing on the iPad, as is Paper.li (here’s my version) although the choice of content isn’t as customisable as I …
Taming The Tyranny of Social Media
After a World Economic Forum meeting in Vienna I was at dinner with a number of senior executives of well known European companies this week when the subject of social media was raised as a discussion point. The WEF was wondering how companies use social media and what was their attitude to it? As the majority of senior execs tend …
Building Britains Future – But Will It Be On Science?
As British Politics seems to be mainly concerned with lies & deceit these days it was refreshing to to see Science Minister Lord Drayson popping up on Twitter yesterday to address the concerns of the scientific community. Most of the science community were as shocked to be tweeting with a government minister as they would be to wake up next …
The Rules of Twitter AND Cricket
There is a complex interplay between the various sorts of media available at the moment that seems to baffle more people than it excites, a bit like Cricket! Here’s an example where Howard Lovy takes a look at the use of Twitter in the nanotech community. Allow me to explain. An online newspaper article gets tweeted by me, then blogged …