Social media rules of engagement for businesses

by Miko Coffey | 18th February 2011

With more and more companies using social media for business, it’s increasingly important for businesses to have a set of guidelines or rules of engagement which can ensure that employees know what to do when interacting online. It’s equally important for managers and superiors to have these guidelines in place, as they may not be [...] Read More

Twitter’s new design cuts out marketing messages: redesign your background now

by Miko Coffey | 28th September 2010

Twitter users who have custom messages in their Twitter backgrounds are suddenly seeing their messages chopped off or no longer visible at all, thanks to the wider width of the page on the new Twitter layout. The old width of the Twitter page had been static pretty much since day 1, and millions of people [...] Read More

Us Now: how the social web is creating social change

by Miko Coffey | 16th December 2008

Last week I popped along to see a screening of Ivo Gormley’s documentary Us Now, presented by my old colleagues at NESTA. Not only was I curious to see the film, but I was also curious to see what was happening in the whole ‘social networking’ strand of NESTA’s Connect programme, as some potentially cool [...] Read More

NetSquared: Head to head blogging

by Miko Coffey | 4th November 2008

I’m looking forward to tonight’s inaugural NetSquared London Meetup: a head-to-head ‘battle’ between the major blog platforms: MovableType, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Having evaluated all of these platforms before settling on the final winner for our needs at NESTA (TypePad), and as an avid user and ‘pusher’ of WordPress myself, I am looking forward to [...] Read More