..For Animals. There are hundreds of pages on the internet about the benefits of social media in healthcare, the fantastic Patient Opinion site, lets people share their stories of their illness and how they coped with it, to sharing opinions on healthcare services they have used. Some opinions are good and some are bad. The main thing is once [...]
And will I get anything out of it? I’m helping to run the Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgeries and a couple of people have asked me, what are they and will they get anything out of them, so in answer to those two questions.. What is a Social Media Surgery? A social media surgery is an informal [...]
I really like this statement by Alistar Burt, who when questioned by Andrew Rosindell about what the cost was to the FCO in maintaining social media channels such as Twitter, YouTube & Flickr, replied: The FCO expects staff in all functions and grades to use a range of digital media-including the social web-to publish, carry [...]
On Friday I’m off to #thatLondon to attend and speak at the BBC College Value Of Journalism event. I’m doing a short presentation on why I do what I do with Pits n Pots then sitting on a panel where we re going to discuss Grass Roots Social Media. I’m sitting with: Will Perrin, Robin [...]
On Friday after speaking at an event built around marketing for village halls I headed off, on what seemed like a titanic journey, to Belfast to attend their Barcamp. There is something very satisfying about using the word Titanic when travelling to Belfast. Flying in to Belfast City Airport or as it is better known [...]
When adding links to websites should you force links in to a new window or leave the visitor to decide? If you do force the link in to a new window should you make it clear that the link will open a new window, either by adding a note at the end of the link [...]