Author: Graham Jones

You will be found out if you try to break the online rules

David Friend is doing the right thing – but rather too late. Who is David Friend you may ask. Well, he’s the CEO of Carbonite, one of the most popular online backup services. The problem is, his staff don’t appear to have been doing the right thing – at least

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Local government publicity teams to get the new media treatment

Communications officers in local government are to get the full “new media treatment” when they meet at Birmingham City Football Club next week. Graham Jones will be explaining in a speech to the conference that unless local government uses social networking, it will fall even further down the list of

Gordon Brown talks digital…sorry I mean nonsense

Where do they get their information from in Government? Are they secretly living in some underground colony where the world is different to the one you and I live in? Or are they all so gullible they fall for anything anyone with a sharp suit tells them? Take today –

User generated content set to take on huge importance

We already know that many Internet users contribute content to the web. Take YouTube, for instance, which reportedly has around 15 hours of video uploaded to it every minute…! Not all of that video is professionally produced, business material. Most is what we’d call “user generated content”. Already, just over

On Radio City, Liverpool, next week

Just lined up an interview on Cityalk in Liverpoll next week. They want to know if we believe everything we read on the Internet.

So we need an editorial process on the Internet after all..!

My phone rang yesterday with a client curious about how the world knew about the Hudson River air crash before any news channels were carrying the story. Twitter, instant messaging, SMS, blogs – they all played their part. But for the traditional news media they simply couldn’t run the story

Gaza, Cannabis and Internet Marketing

Ordinary people – the likes of you and me – are often bemused about decisions taken by politicians and those in the “establishment”. Today we see two seemingly different decisions – one about the charity appeal for suffering in Gaza and the other for the reclassification of cannabis as a

My CV (Resumé)

Experience 1984-presentSelf employed Worked as a psychologist helping people in companies communicate more effectively, with a particular emphasis in recent years on using the Internet Enabled companies to be more effective online and improve their profitability as a result Written 27 books, including 12 about the Internet and been a

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How to use Twitter in your business

Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to post very short messages of 140 characters or less – so that they can be sent to a mobile phone as a text message, as well as appear on a web site. The idea behind Twitter is that your messages can

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How to use blogging to boost your business

Blogging is an essential component in successful online businesses. That’s not just my view, but the view of Business Week magazine which said that blogging was a “prerequisite” for business. And the influential magazine said that back in May 2005. If your business is not already blogging you are behind