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Citizen journalism first hand: my experiences from yesterday’s train crash

[View the story "Citizen journalism first hand" on Storify] Citizen journalism first hand My experiences from the front carriage of the May 9th CrossCountry train crash where our train hit 12 cattle at high speed near Oxford. These are the...

Quantified Self UK – gadgets, geeks and the next frontier for marketers

Quantified Self UK, Self Tracking UK

Instagram + Polaroids = Polargrams (from Firebox.com)

I got sent a lovely, surprising pressie in the post this week. The nice people at Firebox.com have given me a sneak peak of their new product, Polargrams. Polargrams are Polaroids of your Instagram pics. Here's my collection!: It was...

Instagram + Polaroids = Polargrams (from Firebox.com)

I got sent a lovely, surprising pressie in the post this week. The nice people at Firebox.com have given me a sneak peak of their new product, Polargrams. Polargrams are Polaroids of your Instagram pics. Here's my collection!: It was...

Project Play: I am now going to game everything

Last week at an event I spoke at I was asked a fascinating question by a member of the audience: "where are all these new Foursquare users coming from? I thought it had died a death?" My answer was what...

Insights from digital mavens on the future of email: put it away

If you are someone who does battle with multiple inboxes, feeds, flashing lights on your unread messages and buzzing phones in meetings because someone has checked in near you, here are a couple of high profile blog posts you may...

Board 2020 write-up: how social media will shape the future business

Yesterday I spoke at Board 2020 - an event hosted at the UWE Conference Centre in Bristol. The theme was how social media will shape the business of the future. Some great talks by speakers including Professor Malcolm Lewis who...

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A week without Twitter: an experiment in Pinterest

Over recent years I've enjoyed testing out new social networks while they're still shiny. The last few weeks I've been looking at how to get the most out of another new thing: Pinterest.com. For those that haven't tried it, Pinterest...

A week of breakfasts, newbies and WIN

This week was one of the busier weeks for a while now. To kick off was the beginning of a new movement: many breakfasts. A team breakfast was organised to welcome a new member of the 33 Digital team -...

7 social media New Year’s resolutions

Happy new year to all you list makers and resolution setters. Here are 7 New Year's resolutions that I'm going to be following and which may help you get more out of social media in January and beyond. Try something...

Three Wikipedia instruction manuals all PR people should look at

Wikipedia PR guidelines