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Social Media Kerfuffle Is a Carbon, A Clone and a Copy Wise old newspaper hacks will tell you there’s nothing new under the sun. Every story has been told before. In the accelerated, amped-up world of Twitter, this has been amplified and exaggerated to rather ridiculous extremes. If you’ve picked up

So, our MPs in the House of Commons are likely to each to be given their own iPads, eh? Unsurprisingly, the story has split opinion. The Sun branded the plan “barmy”, while quoting members of the Tax Payers’ Alliance who were gnashing teeth over the prospect of giving our elected politicians shiny “

I’m amused by a couple of Twitter stories today. But aside from raising a couple of wry smiles, these stories also raise a couple of business points. First up this yarn from The Scotsman about tennis star Andy Murray’s mum leaving Black Rod infuriated: Black Rod is a parliamentary official whose pos

Remember when social media was shiny, new and exciting – or to some people ominous, threatening and scary? Now it is totally embedded in our daily lives to the point where we no longer think of it as anything other than normal. In fact, this morning on BBC Breakfast two prominent stories summed up t

Nobody wants to see a successful Microsoft Windows smart phone more than I do. There are many reasons for this, but the simplest is financial. My business is built and runs on Microsoft and a smart phone which synced seamlessly with that tech while also giving intuitive and simple access to the web

Trendy tech companies in Silicon Valley are renowned for their hip and funky office spaces. Typically staff with the big players like Google, Facebook and Apple go to work in sprawling complexes where they are surrounded by artwork, fun stuff like  ping-pong tables and where colleagues zip around on

As a dad took a photo of his daughter eating an ice cream in a Scottish shopping centre, little did he realise the social media snafu and #PRfail he was about to unleash Chris White was accosted by security staff after photographing his five year old daughter in Braehead Shopping Centre, Glasgow. Th

Some people shouldn’t be let loose on PR and social media. Particularly during a crisis or a major reputational issue. Today giant Scottish retail outlet Braehead Shopping Centre finds itself at the centre of a damaging controversy. A father photographed his daughter eating ice cream and was accoste