Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
One year until TikTok is banned in the USA Paid Members Public
The US Senate votes to force Bytedance to sell TikTok — or see it banned in the US. Social media is the new geopolitical battleground.
The last post for Post News Paid Members Public
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one?
TikTok Watch Paid Members Public
The Chinese-controlled social network really doesn't want to play nice with other governments…
News Roundup: De-politicising Threads and profitable Indies Paid Members Public
Another round-up of audience news, derived from my sessions with my Audience Strategy students at City, University of London.
Always fish where the audience swim Paid Members Public
And other strained metaphors about the state of journalism.
The Media Inflection Point: a manifesto for audience centricity Paid Members Public
The doomsayers are out in force. Journalism is dead, they say. Just look at the job losses, the titles closing. But we’re just paying the price of bungling the last digital transition. Let’s not repeat that mistake with the coming one.
Better Threads than dead Paid Members Public
Threads has gone global by finally launching in the EU, and is beginning to add ActivityPub, connecting it to the Mastodon world. Could it be winning?
The meta-newsletter newsletter Paid Members Public
Newsletters are over, apparently. But we know better than that, don't we?
