Tag Archives: media

Carrington Malin

Can we say Twitter revolution now? Can we?

There’s already been quite a lot written about the role of social media in the ousting of Tunisia’s President Ben Ali. Here’s our 2 cents worth, plus a list of useful links for anyone interested in learning about the role of social media in Tunisia’s regime change. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Introducing social media in the Arab world

The April issue of O’Dwyer’s PR Magazine has just come out in the USA and it features a report I wrote on social media in the Middle East and North Africa. It’s a very top-level view of social media and … Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

5 reasons Spot On PR uses Twitter

@SMEXbeirut asked recently if we’d written an article on why Spot On PR uses Twitter and what we get out of it, so now is probably as good a time as any. Those that have been following our social media … Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

Disintermediation and the media

When technology improves access, quality becomes secondary. And quality is the last refuge of the about-to-be-disintermediated. Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

Social media predictions

Here are some of Alexander McNabb’s ‘social media’ predictions for 2009, just for fun! Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

Is the newspaper dead?

Is the newspaper dead? And if not, when is it going to do the decent thing? Continue reading

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