Aug
9
The social divides of social media
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Opportunistic marketers aren’t slow in suggesting that social media monitoring could have helped the Police understand the outbreak of rioting over the last few days –this article is just one example. Police do monitor social media (most obviously, large police forces tweet themselves) but it wouldn’t have been particularly useful over the last few days. [...]
Jun
27
How can the UK boost enterprise?
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When the country faces a big challenges but there appears to be a lack of progress there is a call for new ideas. There are few more immediate challenges than how the UK gives rise to new enterprises. Yet solutions appear thin on the ground. New ideas alone don’t create successful enterprises but a combination [...]
Nov
5
Apologies for bastardising Churchill’s quote which, first time of asking, was funny and insightful. But I get really frustrated by the reporting of US elections in the UK – in this instance, the midterms. There are three narratives which make sense if you and English, and US politics is happening in the UK – but [...]