Should Facebook have a Death Wish list?

31Oct08

How was you told that the last person that you were very close to died?
When a work colleague died I remember receiving a group email, shocking but at least there were others around in the office to look to for support. In the age of social networking there is every possibility that you could discover [...]

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Tags: death, deceased, facebook, facebook death wish, facebook profile, last.fm, living will, my space profile, online profile, profile, social network, social network profile, social networking, twitter

Winning elections on-line

14Sep08

The US elections are continuing to demonstrate how the internet is playing an increasingly important role in engaging with voters. Research in the US has shown that 7% of on-line searchers may change their votes. In a close election what political parties do on-line could make the difference between winning and losing.
Democrat Barrack Obama has [...]

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Tags: advertising, barrack obama, candidates, democratic, elections, elections 2010, elections on-line, facebook, general elections, google, illinois institute of government and public affairs, london local elections 2010, london local government elections, michael cheney, online, pay-per-click, political campaigning, politicians, polling day, research, social media, social networks, sponsored links, us elections

Time to waffle?

10Aug08

Wafflebox is a free service that enables you to receive voice messages on your website, Facebook profile, MySpace, Friendster, Tagged or your blog.
When you join you will be given a unique telephone number, an 0845 number charged at a national rate, your friends can leave a voice message in your Wafflebox which you and your page [...]

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Tags: 0845, facebook, Frendster, myspace, Tagged, voice messaging, wafflebox

Five Social Media must do for politicians

17Jun08

There are thousands of social media sites, which for someone who hasn’t even got a Facebook profile must be overwhelming. Whilst I have written about creating a profile network I realise that to start with many politicians will need to take a few ‘baby’ steps into the realm of social media and enabling their constituents [...]

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Tags: bebo, facebook, google, political blogging, politicians, profile network, social media, twitter, twittering, val shawcross, youtube

Fake profiles on Facebook, is someone pretending to be you?

16Jun08

One of the greatest compliments is to be copied, however if you are a famous person someone pretending to be you is full of hazards especially if they use your photograph, name, location and age to try and persuade people they are you then write as you saying things you may not want to be [...]

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Tags: benny hill, facebook, fake profiles, gordon brown, politicians, profile network