Social media - the reality…
NB: Pic via SomeEcards.com
Not the most enticing invitation ever.
Best Tweet of the Euro2012 footie tournament by a mile. Well done @visitengland.
UPDATE: Within just 11 hours or so the message had been retweeted a mammoth 7,700 times.
Tale of two headlines on the BBC: Facebook IPO and bailing out the banks.
Social media explained…
Recently updated to include social media darlings of the moment, Pinterest and Instagram.
:)
NB: Thx @JoelBrandonBrav.
Still the best parody of the social media gurus littering the web :).
Stuffed full of classic lines:
“Show me to your computer and I’ll hook your Twitter to your Facebook and plug your blog feed into my reader.”
And:
“I’ll just sign you up to a few free internet sites, point you in the direction of using common fucking sense and then make my escape with your cash, while you come to terms with how stupid you were to spend money and hire me in the first place.”
Fascinating talk from MIT-based tech author and thinker Sherry Turkle at a TED conference in February 2012.
In the 20-minute presentation, Turkle discusses how the rise of technology and social media is affecting human ability to interact in a live environment.
Includes this thought-provoking line:
“The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.”
For those of us that live so much of our lives on the interweb, with our many “friends” in social networks, it is worth sitting back for a moment and wonder how technology, social media et al impacts on our relationships in both the real and virtual worlds.
Spoken at a few academic things over the past few years, but had the chance last week to give a proper lecture to hospitality students at Oxford Brookes University.
Not having imparted much knowledge on my trained field of criminology since, err, 2000, thought best to speak about something I know a little bit more about: Social Media, The Graph and the Hotel Industry.
Here is the deck on Slideshare.
Luckily (perhaps) the students were all in their final undergraduate year, so were actually for the most paying attention during the lecture… even when running over the allotted 1 hour 30 minute time and veering far too close to their lunch break.
It was fun though…
