10 Social Media #Epic #Fails
I’ve put together a presentation deck of 10 Social Media #Epic #Fails. It’s something I have been working on for a while and for the presentations I give, it often helps to include a few examples of More...
Landing a Job in the Digital World
I gave a presentation this week entitled ‘Landing a Job in the Digital World’ at Leeds Metropolitan University. The deck focused on using an e-portfolio, blog and social media to record achievement, More...
An Introduction to Social Media at #SDVision
I gave a presentation this afternoon entitled ‘An Introduction to Social Media’ at the annual Supporters Direct (SD) conference. The event held at the home of the Institute of Technology and Engineering More...
Research Internship at Edelman
Edelman has a paid internship available for somebody to work in Strategy One – the agency’s research division. The role is to ‘assist in the media research activities of client projects and expose current More...
Ben-cotton.com Launched
I thought I’d let you know that my Lifestream, Ben-Cotton.com has gone ‘live’ after some initial beta testing. A lot of people have asked me, why have I produced this site, so hopefully this post will go some More...
Graduate Opportunities at Porter Novelli
I received a Tweet the other day from Ziad Traboulsi who very kindly pointed out to me an opportunity that may appeal to SWT readers – that Porter Novelli Novelli are offering paid work experience for graduates More...
10 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools
I was encouraged to write a list of free social media monitoring tools after a previous post where I argued why organisations have to monitor social media. Admittedly, this post has been a long time coming, but More...
Fishburn Hedges internship
I received a Tweet the other day from the Fishburn Hedges Twitter handle informing me of their upcoming graduate scheme. The London based agency is looking for someone who is about to enter their final year of More...
Social Networks Become Social Entertainment
I was fortunate enough to attend the Edelman Social Entertainment breakfast last week where the findings of Edelman’s fourth annual Trust in the Entertainment Industry survey were presented. Gail Becker, President More...
University Wises up to Personal SEO
I read an interesting article in Mashable last week reporting that Syracuse University in the United States has purchased subscriptions enabling its students to use Brand Yourself’s online reputation management More...
Wanted: Super intern with X factor
I recently heard about a great internship-meets-apprentice style opportunity for PR students via Andy Barr of 10 Yetis fame. “Wanted: Super Intern” is an innovative event organised by London Met student, Ekaterina More...








