Stephen Fry and the bag lady
Last weekend saw one of the most exciting evenings in the UK cultural calendar – the BAFTAs. From an event that was once simply thought of as ‘the UK Oscars but not as good,’ the BAFTAs have become a world-renowned...
What Kanye West can teach you about Twitter
Twitter tiffs. Are we fed up of them yet? If your interest in the online arguments of the more famous occupants of this world was waning then the all out rant that spewed forth from Kanye West’s Twitter account last...
Becoming the story: PR people who get bad PR
We often see PR firms having to manage the PR disasters of their less savvy clients. It is arresting, then, when a PR adviser gets something very wrong – and when it happens it tends to attract a lot of...
Top 5 social media blunders
We regularly bring you examples of ways in which everyone from politicians to celebrities and even ‘normal people’ have managed to make spectacular blunders on social media that have ended up being very high profile. When it comes to brand...
Can you control naming and shaming online?
It’s an unfortunate reality that most women experience casual sexism as an everyday occurrence. A yell from a white van man as she walks to work, or a presumption she will undertake the lion’s share of household chores; women in...
Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris – a case study
Not that long ago I blogged about Taylor Swift’s pretty immaculate record when it comes to well played moves in Twitter spats. Well, it seems I was tempting fate as the internet has been buzzing with Swift’s name this week,...
Social media: how to fight nice
I took a few days off last week and as a consequence found myself delving into the lives of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry through the medium of Heat magazine. Both are two vastly famous and successful young women who...
A lion called Cecil, a witch called Walter and a wardrobe full of Twitter abuse
Admittedly, it's quite difficult to generate a massive amount of sympathy for Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. In case you've forgotten, he managed to see off Zimbabwe's favourite lion, Cecil, while on one of those awful big game shoot safari holidays...
How not to get yourself in a compromising position online
The tabloid allegations surrounding Lord Sewell this week put me in mind of a great book I read recently...
Lessons in Twitter love
Twitter is a wonderful tool – an easy way to reach existing, and new, audiences and to grow a public profile. But you don't have to search too many hashtags for startling examples of Twitter-gone-bad especially so among high profile...