Avoiding Facebook and other platforms could actually be good for you and your business. More and more small business are realising the dangers of investing so much in platforms they can’t control and are also keen to be less captive to their smart phones. The scandals surrounding Facebook and its other businesses, Instagram and WhatsApp, may have been a trigger for some people to…

I was very, very fortunate to be able to visit my son in Canada for Christmas. In amongst many magical moments (including hugging my son for the first time since the pandemic started), two really stand out. We’d had a very rocky 10 hour flight and everyone was tired and…

There have been comprehensive reports about the part that social media platforms, and in particular Facebook (or as it’s now called “Meta”), plays in world affairs; the algorithms that push people toward extreme content, the weight that is given to posts that get angry reactions, the fake numbers, the people…

A hedgehog crashes a dinner party … Sophie Wadsworth explains how humour can make stories more memorable and creates a connection with an audience using examples from her own life, from political figures, humorists and poets. Sophie is a mission-driven leader and coach with a track record of leveraging…

I started my first blog in 2006. This is the very first post: Inspirational Speakers The most popular platform back then was Blogger which was launched in 1999. It was one of the first dedicated blog-publishing tools and one of its founders was Evan Williams who later went on to…

When I see a LinkedIn post with hundreds of comments I usually let it pass by without investigating. You’d think a post that has a lots of comments might be good, interesting or important (I almost said funny) but they very rarely are. Generally these posts are thinly disguised clickbait…

Recording a Twitter thread here because its easier to refer back to than on Twitter James Plunkett @jamestplunkett Jun 29 2021 The key point is this: the problem with big tech companies isn’t just their size, it’s their status. We treat these institutions — Google, Facebook, Amazon — as companies…

I’ve written this travelog mostly for my own pleasure, to remember all the places we visited in a two week trip but more to remind myself of the places I’d like to return to. …

Do you always use correct punctuation or are you cheerfully swapping a full stop for an emoji? How would it make you feel if we just stopped using punctuation? With 1 in 6 adults in the UK having a literacy levels below what’s expected for 9–11 year olds there are…