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Top Facebook crimes

July 10, 2017 By Ellen

A post from 2013, but this week Facebook reminded me that it was 10 years since I first posted a status – back in the day when you’d be happy to be poked by a chum. I thought it could do with another airing. A good eye, deer. What did we do before Facebook? I […]

Filed Under: Facebook., rant, social media

25/365 If you can’t be cute, be relevant

January 25, 2013 By Ellen

This is the view from the window of 29 Glasgow after this month’s New Media Breakfast. This morning’s session was about content creation for 2013. Though I don’t imagine the process is all that much different than it was last year.However, it was really useful to organise my thoughts before my own blogging workshop tomorrow and to […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, content creation, fatbuzz, glasgow, NMBrek, social media

How to fail at fashion and social media all at once…

December 21, 2012 By Ellen

A bit of a turkey Earlier this week I had an interview for some work… something interesting that would slot nicely into the portfolio career. I was all organised – I’d read as much background as I could find, printed out CVs as requested, put on makeup and dressed as a grown up. A bit like a […]

Filed Under: cautionary tale, clothes, fail, fashion, fashion fail, journalism, Portfolio career, social media, twitter, work

Your children and the internet: how scared should you be?

February 1, 2012 By Ellen

So I found my way to the school’s talk on internet safety last night. It was for parents with kids in primary seven or first year of high school. And now more than 24 hours later I’m dithering about what to write.  On the one hand (if the speakers were to be believed) the web […]

Filed Under: CEOP, high school, internet, social media, the internet, twitter

Twitter – break the news, not hearts

August 22, 2011 By Ellen

Twitter is a fanatic source of quick information. This evening, for example, the Panther of News and I were jolted from our Sunday night bubblegum telly by a tweet about rebels streaming into Libya. With one eye I watched Alex Crawford of Sky give her compelling and courageous report from the streets of Tripoli and […]

Filed Under: journalism, newspapers, social media, twitter

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