Social and Mobile in Ireland
This week my Edelman colleagues Eoin Dowling and Piaras Kelly launched an infographic video which appeared on the Edelman Digital blog and highlighted the explosion of social media usage amongst key audiences, as More...
Vacancy at Content & Motion
I received an email last week from industry colleague Roger Warner, Founder of Content & Motion telling me of their latest vacancy which may interest SWT readers. C&M is looking for a Social SEO Executive More...
What Does the Extended ASA Remit Mean for You?
On Monday 1 March 2011 the extended Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) remit will come into effect. A lot has been made of this ruling and the impact it will have on social media and digital marketing. The ASA previously More...
10 Steps to Undertaking a Successful Blogger Outreach Programme
This post is the third of a series looking at online influencers. The first listed great free tools that help identify influential people and the second suggested practical considerations when selecting online More...
Takeaways from the Edelman Trust Barometer 2011
The Edelman Trust Barometer 2011 findings were published last week on the eve of the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Whilst everyone agrees that being trustworthy is undoubtedly a good thing, it is More...
#MEATEASY Serves Up a Tweet
Goldsmith Tavern, a pub in New Cross has received a great deal of online coverage over the last week or so. The reason being is that this unremarkable pub has quite a remarkable operation going on upstairs. Tuesday More...
5 Tips to Pitch Yourself to a Potential Employer Using Social Media
I was inspired to write these tips after reading Katelyn Mashburn’s fantastic post on making the perfect pitch to journalists. This got me thinking about not only how important it is to get the pitch right when More...
2010 Review of Social Web Thing
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to look back and reflect, so I was pleased to receive an email a couple of days ago from the ‘stats helper monkeys’ at WordPress which kindly produced More...
Have a Great Christmas!
Firstly, I’d like to wish all Social Web Thing readers a Happy Christmas and thank you all for continuing to read and comment on the blog. 2010 has been a good year for me, personally and SWT – the blog More...
Social Web Thing makes the CRAPPs shortlist
I received more great news this week – Social Web Thing has been shortlisted for ‘the best blogger PR award’ at the Communicative Relations Awards from PR Professionals – the light hearted awards More...
What is Social Media?
I’ve been inspired by my former lecturer, Richard Bailey to pen this post simply asking ‘what is social media?’ There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of credible explanations and below is Wikipedia’s More...








