WordPress 3.9 and BuddyPress 2.0

The last week has seen two big updates for some of the core platforms that we support. The long expected WordPress 3.9 release is now out, and the BuddyPress team have release version 2.0 of their popular set of WordPress extensions. In true Automattic tradition, the WordPress release is named “Smith” after after a jazz musician Jimmy Smith (there’s […]

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Business to Business Marketing – The b2bhuddle Event

This is from a  Storify created via an iPad (if you haven’t used Storify before, do check it out – it’s a great way to curate content from across social platforms). I’ve used it to pick out some key tweets from the May 2013 b2bhuddle Event. It was the 6th B2B Social Media Huddle, hosted at Oracle’s building in […]

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Goodbye Posterous

Today is Posterous’s last day. Posterous started in July 2008 and was a great and easy way to share  short-form blog content, and it rapidly became popular. In fact so popular that Twitter acquired it last year. This was clearly a technology and talent acquisition rather than a platform one, and so a little while ago the […]

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Social Media – Giving Introverts a Chance in the Workplace?

This post is, at least in part, triggered by a guest post on Vicky Beeching’s cybersoul blog: Introverts, extroverts, and why Twitter is like Narnia. The post is by Tanya Marlow, and she brings a unique perspective to the issue. It resonated with a couple of posts written here back in 2008, so it seems like a […]

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The Power of Crowds – We Will Gather

One area that Social Media has revolutionised more than any other is crowdsourcing. It was one of the communication shifts that prompted the foundation of Redcatco, and was the topic of my talk at the first Social Media in Business event in the UK. At the time the focus was on sourcing information and ideas; […]

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Social Media and the Growing Business

Recently I had the pleasure of joining a round table discussion on the future of Social Media for Small and Medium Business, hosted by Dell and chaired by Neville Hobson – you can read the post on his blog too. It was a Google hangout, with Shel Holtz, Kerry Bridge (Social Media Manager), Lionel Menchaca (Dell’s chief […]

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Social Business – Beyond Social Commercials

At the end of 2011, during an interview at the Social Workplace Conference, in London one of the questions posed to me was “what conversations would you like to be having about social media in the work place in 24 months time?” Well, it’s twelve months on, so it’s an interesting checkpoint to see what sort of conversations […]

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