Yesterday I was called by The Press Association on a story they were compiling in the vanity of social networking users. They wanted to know why so many people wanted their pictures airbrushed. When I did the interview, on my mobile phone, I was at an outdoor swimming pool trying

The Sun newspaper called earlier to ask my advice about a story they were planning to run. I was able to give them plenty of background information and the result was a story headlined Email deluge causes misery.

Just spent half an hour live on air in the mid morning programme on BBC Radio Tees talking about social networking. Great programme and interesting chat with Alex Hall about the future of social networking and how it will become important to all of us.

I was giving a talk in Newbury the other day and there just happened to be a reporter from the Newbury Weekly news there. The result was a highly positive article on blogging for businesses. I gave away my book on blogging and they took a photo of me presenting

“In the Know” is a weekly women’s magazine who called me up a couple of weeks ago to talk about blogging. Their article “Confessions of the housewife bloggers” appears in today’s issue and quotes me as saying that blogging can be as good as therapy for many people. True.

The Reading Chronicle’s Business Review monthly supplement featured my workshop on Internet marketing and how to make money from the Internet. It was a highly positive review of my work. Thanks. The headline claimed I was a “web wizard” who “lures the masses” – wow!

The McGraw Hill international weekly, Business Week, included comment from me today on the cultural differences in technological usage. I pointed out that the boardrooms of global businesses need a conceptual shift if they are to survive in the technological future online.