Posts tagged: twitter

North East’s most influential Twitter users

19 January 2012 – 12:23 pm

Twitter, the social media tool, is becoming an increasingly useful way to reach people of influence.  One retweet from an influential Twitter user can send your message through to thousands of followers, even go global.  With this in mind I have gathered a list here of who I believe to be the North East’s most [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Posted in Social Media | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Caution: Do you really want to send that?

11 November 2010 – 3:18 pm

Since the early days of email I’ve tried to remind users that because the medium was instant and in most cases irrevocable, it was good practice to not be hasty in clicking the send button, especially when addressing a tricky area of some description. Like a complaint, or a criticism but particularly if having a rant [...]

By Andrew Samuel | Posted in ICT | Comments (0)

Anti-Social Media

14 October 2010 – 4:05 pm

Here’s an interesting use of social media. It’s being used to catalogue anti-social shenanigans. Greater Manchester Police are today helping us to understand what they do every day by tweeting every report it receives over 24 hours. That’s right, they’re on twitter! No joke, here they are http://twitter.com/gmp24_1 We shouldn’t laugh, but I’ve just read on [...]

By Andrew Samuel | Posted in ICT | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)