The Dinosaur Hotel

Here is a brilliant example of a hotelier who has succeeded in making his hotel well-known world-wide by being different.  To prove my point here’s a comment on the hotel’s Facebook page: Your hotel is now on my bucket list. Must go. How do you do that...

The Twitter Spam Cascade

It used to be a mark of shame – the embarrassment of being caught out falling for the Free iPad offer, or the vanity of thinking someone would write a blog about you, let alone a bad blog. However these spam tweets are becoming so prevalent, the embarrassment...

TrueTwit – well meaning but back to front

Spam on Twitter is starting to get annoying.  There are two main sorts: one is just a shameless plug such as “Free advice Debt Relief“ Get confidence and 100% Free Debt Relief Help: www.gohere.com”. The other is a sort of spam cascade where you get a tweet...

Guest post at Axita Ltd

I was kindly invited to do a guest post at Axita Ltd’s blog. The gist of it is One of the problems with traditional advertising is that these days people are looking to find out more about your company or service now than a simple ad tells them. They want...

Twitter buys Tweetdeck

If you have tried to make sense of Twitter, but found it to be a long stream of totally irrelevant stuff, then you need Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck will organise tweets into columns that you can set up and which can be filtered by sender, topic, search term and many other...

Featured in The Journal

I was privileged to be invited by The Journal – “For Yorkshire Homes Of Distinction” – to feature in its “My Favourite…” spot. They used a photo they had of me from an earlier photoshoot and, as you can see it was chucking it...