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iPads for Professional People: What Apps Work 24 May 2013 | 05:40 pm
My employer has started to issue iPads to staff on a limited basis. They've made the devices available mostly as a replacement for laptop PCs for senior staff who spend time working outside their offi...
Jim Traynor, Rangers, and the decline of Scottish media 11 Dec 2012 | 03:12 am
Much as I enjoyed Michael Grant's piece in The Herald this morning on Jim Traynor's move from the Daily Record and BBC to a senior comms role for Rangers, it missed one important piece of insight. If...
How Third Sector organisations can use social media more effectively 3 Dec 2012 | 11:27 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I had the pleasure of running a couple of group sessions at the ACOSVO Annual Conference in Edinburgh earlier this mo...
How can Third Sector CEOs use social media effectively? 30 Nov 2012 | 03:24 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I had the pleasure of running a couple of group sessions at the ACOSVO Annual Conference in Edinburgh earlier this mo...
Scottish Local Authorities and Twitter 13 Apr 2012 | 02:55 am
A couple of months ago, I carried out a piece of research as part of my work on my CIPR Diploma on the use of social media by Scottish Councils. The aim of this research was to examine if and how Sc....
The essence of the modern political interview 8 Apr 2011 | 07:37 pm
"Everyone seems painfully aware that my task as interviewer is to catch him out, to get him to say the wrong thing. Clegg's task, like all politicians, is to rattle off rhetoric, to be evasive and as ...
#BBCfail will limit their election reach 29 Mar 2011 | 07:22 pm
The Scottish Election kicked into gear last night as the parties entered the first full week of campaigning following the dissolution of parliament last week. Both the BBC and STV launched election t...
Scotland's Top Political Tweeters 6 Sep 2010 | 07:45 pm
In January this year I put together a post containing a list of the top Scottish political tweeters. Thanks to Total Politics' Blog awards, lists are back in vogue, and so I thought that it would be....
A beginners guide to political tweeting 31 Jan 2010 | 11:30 pm
It took me a while to put together my list of Top Scottish Political Tweeters this week. While I was going through them, a few stood out as good, some were not good, and a few were just plain ugly. S...
Who's Who in Scottish Political Tweetery 28 Jan 2010 | 10:09 am
Both Tweetminster and Iain Dale have recently put together their own analysis of Twitter use in UK politics. But who’s who in the Scottish Twittersphere? Take up of twitter by elected politicians is...
