This post is somewhat of a first for me.  While I work with Scott on a daily basis and we sit at opposite desks, we’ve never put our heads together to write a blog post before.  However, recently our office banter has touched on the subject of blogs (well, only some of it has, let’s [...]

I’ve tried very hard to keep this blog a-political and this post is no exception.  However, as a former constituent of David Wright MP and a strong advocate of political use of social media, I felt it was important I put out a blog regarding the news story about the “Scum sucking pigs” comment that [...]

This my first blog post for 2010, but I’m not looking to the future – instead I’m returning to the past. Not too long ago I did a post about how Twitter and other social media being used in emergency situations.  Now, I don’t claim that millions of people in local government read this blog, [...]

About six months ago I realised I wasn’t using Twitter or Facebook effectively. For a start, I was using them in exactly the same way. Every TWEET I sent became a status update and my networks were the same. Friends that were non-work related aor non-twitter usesrs became confused by some my my tweets. So, [...]

I saw this news story today from Neville Hobson‘s (@jangles) Twitterfeed. I’ll let you do the reading, but, in a nutshell, it’s the report of a study that suggests young people could be damaged, emotionally, by using Twitter.  The reason being that we can process negative stories much faster than positive ones, leaving us with [...]