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• The Blog Council

  I'm in two minds about the creation of the Blog Council , "a professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging". On the one hand, it's great that some of the biggest brand names in the world, like Read More... Posted 07 December 2007 10:58 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Who do you trust most, Facebook or the Government?

  According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), young people could be putting themselves at risk of identity fraud because of the material they post on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. At least it's information they control (the Read More... Posted 23 November 2007 09:32 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media, Personal

• Half of Barracuda Customers block MySpace or Facebook

  A study of its customers by web security company Barracuda Networks has found that 50% of them block employee access to MySpace, Facebook or both. MySpace comes off the worst, being blocked by 44% of customers compared to Face-'blocking' at only 26%. Read More... Posted 07 November 2007 14:54 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Media, policies

• EU cracks down on fake blogs - or does it?

  A couple of days ago, Neville Hobson posted a link to an article from the sharp-tongued IT news site The Register. According to the piece by Phillip Carnell , "covert commercial blogging - or flogging - will soon be banned by Brussels." Er. Read More... Posted 07 November 2007 11:51 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Reputation

• You Grumpy Old Blogger!

  Is it me, or is all this social media making me grumpy? Today I've had someone who sent me a message on Facebook in order to try and sell their creative design services as well as a researcher from one of the UK media databases wanting to list me as a Read More... Posted 17 October 2007 17:21 by Niall Cook | 8 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media

• Live Blogging Digipalooza

  My boss* has been bemoaning the lack of posts emanating from this blog of late. In my defence, I am trying to juggle some pretty hefty professional and personal projects such as implementing a global enterprise feedback management system, getting a global Read More... Posted 05 October 2007 11:25 by Niall Cook | 3 Comments Filed under: Marketing Technology, Collective Conversation, Social Media, Knowledge, Reputation

• The Problem with "Blogger Relations"

  I just left the following comment on a post Antony Mayfield made calling for the end of the practice generally known in our industry as "blogger relations" and thought it would be worth re-posting here too. Antony picks up on a discussion kicked Read More... Posted 14 September 2007 09:51 by Niall Cook | 3 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Reputation

• Pot. Kettle. Black?

  The second thing I found revealing about WikiScanner is how much coverage it is getting from the same media who are being exposed by it. To highlight just one organisation amongst many, the BBC News website picks on Diebold in their article about WikiScanner Read More... Posted 21 August 2007 10:33 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media, Reputation

• Employees do the stupidest things

  The first thing I found most revealing about wikiscanner , the application that shows the edits that companies have made to Wikipedia (or to be completely accurate, where computers on their networks have been used to make such changes), is not the vanity Read More... Posted 21 August 2007 10:23 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Reputation

• Making Money on Facebook: Blackmail?

  Over on Mark Ramskill's blog, Jawad Shuaib suggests 5 ways to make money on Facebook . Develop and sell your own Facebook applications Develop Facebook applications for third parties Advertise Sell services using micropayments Get investment for your Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 10:15 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• What is influence anyway?

  Edelman's attempts to create a methodology for measuring social media influence flashed past my RSS reader yesterday. Only today when someone asked what I thought about it did I take a look in more detail. Here's my take: We need to find a way to let Read More... Posted 20 July 2007 17:16 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Internal Twittering

  Whenever a new technological craze rears its ugly head, I try and think about how we could apply it in our business. And so, as I mentioned in the previous post , my thoughts have recently turned to Twitter . I can easily see the scenario: every employee Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 12:40 by Niall Cook | 11 Comments Filed under: Marketing Technology, Social Media

• Stating "The Obvious"

  I just spent an enjoyable three hours with Euan Semple in our London office, making good on my invitation to show him what some of our communicators do all day. As always, when you have a conversation with Euan your head starts spinning with ideas. Here Read More... Posted 21 June 2007 15:08 by Niall Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: Marketing Technology, Social Media, Knowledge

• Don't let the IT department take away the water cooler!

  Most IT departments spend time worrying about how to stop employees doing things (installing software, using MSN, accessing MySpace, etc, etc.). It's what they're paid to do. But those same companies are also wondering how to attract and retain talent, Read More... Posted 24 April 2007 10:07 by Niall Cook | 4 Comments Filed under: Marketing Technology, Social Media, Collaboration

• Oh. My. God.

  Further to my last post : BBC: Weblogs 'need content warnings' Oh Tim, what have you done ? Mainstream media are going to have a field day with this - what better way to demonstrate that the blogosphere is the wild west of the internet and no replacement Read More... Posted 10 April 2007 10:21 by Niall Cook | 3 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Reputation