Are you still using Quora? Did you sign up, have a look around, and not been back since? Well maybe this infographic will tempt you to take another look.

The Kiss Metrics infographic explains what it all means and how it is growing. From an acorn of just 1,470 comments a year or so ago to more than half a million today. Read More »

James Franco, the writer/actor/model  (or star of ’127 hours’ if you’re still scratching your head) has closed his Twitter account and declared social media is over….that’s right move along people — I have no idea what you social media consultants are going to do now.

Franco, who was also in ‘Spiderman 3′  made his pronouncement a couple of stormy months after he began tweeting. Read More »

Barack Obama kicked off his 2012 his presidential with a campaign video called “It Begins With Us”.  It begins with YouTube and digital campaigning is another way to look at it.

In other years it might have been a poster, but as as Obama says himself  “the politics we believe in starts not with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you — with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers and friends”.  And where better to build those foundations. Read More »

We should all be grateful to the Yes to AV campaign. This weekend it provided a case study reminder in exactly what not to do with your Twitter account as it ran into controversy after dropping Benjamin Zephaniah from its campaign material.

The Yes! To Fair Votes campaign replaced Britain’s most famous black poet on literature with ‘Blackadder’ actor and TV presenter Tony Robinson and then proceeded to row with opponents on Twitter. Read More »

Last week Google announced their +1 service to the usual mixed fan fair of simultaneous excitement and derision. Gordon has already given an overview of the product- in essence Google are attempting to replicate the success of Facebook’s ‘Like’ functionality by giving users the ability to ‘+1′ content they like. Whilst initially constrained to Google search results (both natural and paid) the plan is to roll it out to other Google properties as well as third party sites. Read More »