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IPR Webinar | The Future of PR: Social Impact in the Age of AI

IPR Webinar | The Future of PR: Social Impact in the Age of AI

In this IPR Webinar,Thomas Stoeckle from Bournemouth University, UK, and I present our global report, “The Future of PR/Comms and Their Social Impact.” This report explores three key themes: Following their presentation, Brian Snyder of Axicom shares his expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and explores its implications for the evolving landscape of the public relations […]
September 10, 2025
FREE E-BOOK: AI in PR/Comms
AI in PR book cover

FREE E-BOOK: AI in PR/Comms

FREE DOWNLOAD In June this year, I have launched a call for contributions for a free ebook about Ai in PR/Comms. 3.5 months later, there’s a book: Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Communications: cases,reflections, and predictions – all 140+ pages, 16 authors from 6 countries packed with insight and thought provoking reviews and questions. […]
September 14, 2023
#WomeninPR podcast

#WomeninPR podcast

What started a couple of years ago with me questioning students about the missing voices in PR history and continued with one of them wanting to focus their thesis on women telling their stories about getting in or out of PR, ended up with a podcast. Women in PR released its first episode on SoundCloud […]
October 25, 2019
What is Employer Branding? – GMP PR video

What is Employer Branding? – GMP PR video

GMPPR in Romania has asked my thoughts about employer branding. They’re turning that into a mini-series. Below is the first episode: What is employer branding? https://www.facebook.com/gmppublicrelations/videos/1497360630373435/
May 7, 2018
PR Conversations with Thomas Stoeckle on PR for the 21st century

PR Conversations with Thomas Stoeckle on PR for the 21st century

With the rapid changes in the communications landscape, including the technologies that enable/mediate communication, the skillset and job description of the PR practitioner is often in focus. More technical skills are in demand and more focus is on measurement and evaluation (so research and critical thinking). None of these point to PR being a management […]
April 10, 2018
PR measurement: AR/ VR/ AI in focus

PR measurement: AR/ VR/ AI in focus

Augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are interesting technological developments that PR practitioners could use for their organisations and clients. At the PROI Worldwide meeting in Bucharest (PROI is the longest-running partnership of independent public relations agencies) practitioners were more concerned with how these creative applications can support their work and, most importantly, how […]
October 25, 2017
Social media and political communication in #posttruth times

Social media and political communication in #posttruth times

  One November evening (Nov 14, discount 2016) I had the pleasure to be part of an EACD Forum expert panel discussing the then recent results of the US presidential elections and their similarities with other elections in Europe and beyond. The video of the entire panel discussion is here. Happy watching:  
January 2, 2017
Im Chat – PR Magazin interview with Merlin Koene

Im Chat – PR Magazin interview with Merlin Koene

At the beginning of April, PR Magazin, a magazine dedicated to communicators in Germany and beyond, published my answers to Andrea Fratini‘s questions, Director of Corporate Communications at the Bauer Media Group in its “Im Chat” section. As the section is dedicated to communicators asking other communicators about various issues relevant to their job and practice, the […]
May 12, 2016
New Publication: Stories, Heroes and Commercials

New Publication: Stories, Heroes and Commercials

  A new article on digital storytelling and empowerment marketing and their application to corporate communication, about it public relations and corporate social responsibility has been recently published in the Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy Journal. Co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan and Razvan Constantin Dinca, viagra sale and the result of a conference paper presented […]
January 4, 2016
On #storytelling and #CSR

On #storytelling and #CSR

  An article I recently co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan, sick executive director of the Progress Foundation in Romania, mind has been published in the Communication Director Magazine. The article is a providing some background information which inspired our recent research project on digital storytelling reflections of corporate volunteering. This has been further elaborated on in […]
December 18, 2015
Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2015/16

Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2015/16

  Earlier this year I have joined the core research team of the Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2015/16, viagra sale the first of its kind for the region and a spin-off of already existing and highly insightful monitors for Europe and Latin-America. I have coordinated the research team efforts (Jim Macnamara, misbirth May O. Lwin and […]
December 18, 2015
Conversation is dead. Repetition and parallel talk rule Twitter.

Conversation is dead. Repetition and parallel talk rule Twitter.

Masterclass #storytelling as a legitimization tool: just humanize the story! Peer to peer trust @ana_adi #ecs15 pic.twitter.com/wiUbPEWfvm — TamaraGNS (@TamaraGNS) June 25, 2015 UPDATE: The article elaborating on the conference paper has now been published in the Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations. The full reference and link to the FULL article are below. […]
September 25, 2015
#Storytelling as a legitimization tool

#Storytelling as a legitimization tool

My first participation at the European Communication Summit (#ecs15) has recently concluded. It has been amazing; it brought together more than 600 participants and 80 speakers all working in communication, public relations and public affairs and plenty of examples, ideas, buy reflections and projections all debating the value and impact of “Anticipation and Disruption” (this year’s theme) […]
July 4, 2015
Conference paper: Visual framing of Romanian migrants

Conference paper: Visual framing of Romanian migrants

I had the pleasure to collaborate recently with Bianca Cheregi, PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Communication Sciences from the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies on a research paper exploring the role news images play in framing Romanian immigrants to the UK and how they construct the social issue of migration, […]
July 4, 2015
New publication: Occupy PR

New publication: Occupy PR

  An article I wrote has been accepted for publication in the Public Relations Review and is now available Occupy PR Here are some highlights: Although Occupy protests have concluded, cough occupy groups continue to communicate online. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy London continue to be the most visible occupy accounts. The websites and Twitter […]
July 3, 2015
Social media strategy for SMEs

Social media strategy for SMEs

This has been a really busy month and continues to be so. During the third week of June, viagra 60mg I had a new opportunity to share my thoughts on social media strategy and management with a very inspiring group of businesses and organizations from Lincoln, physician UK as part of the expert talk series hosted […]
June 24, 2015
#PRmeasurement – conference summary

#PRmeasurement – conference summary

I have just returned from Bucharest where I was invited to share the lessons I learned from my consultancy and social media training with SMEs at PR Measurement. Organised by GMP PR, dosage  this was the first conference in Romania focused on measurement of public relations campaigns and outputs. It was also the first conference aiming […]
May 27, 2015
#playconf2015 – reflections on the state of video communication

#playconf2015 – reflections on the state of video communication

Quadriga University was the host of the 2nd Video Communication International Conference (Play) on the 21st and 22nd of May and I had the pleasure of moderating it for the two days. Although I have moderated academic conference sessions before, order this was the first time I have moderated an entire conference. The line up was […]
May 27, 2015
Press: Digital Culture, Communication & Society

Press: Digital Culture, Communication & Society

The International Conference on Digital Culture, ailment Communication and Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge in Zaragoza and my participation as keynote speaker and panelist has been extensively covered in local media and blogs. Here is a list: El Dia Aragon Digital El Periodico […]
March 27, 2015
Keynote – Digital Culture, Communication & Society

Keynote – Digital Culture, Communication & Society

On the 16th and 17th of March, ampoule I had the pleasure of traveling to Zaragoza to join the International Conference on Digital Culture, pharmacy Communication & Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge. The event was well covered, the local media and journalism students […]
March 27, 2015
Teaching with Twitter: #vivesnewmedia reflections

Teaching with Twitter: #vivesnewmedia reflections

  I have started the new year with my visit to Vives in Belgium, ampoule delivering again the New Media course to a new group of Erasmus exchange students. Using the feedback from every group, ampoule the course has become over time more focused on social media marketing and communications. This also includes more extensive discussions […]
January 19, 2015
Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change

Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change

  This year I had the pleasure to be invited to join the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change as a visiting scholar. Organized by the Salburg Global Media Seminar and hosted at the stunningly beautiful Schloss Leopoldskron, the academy describes itself as a “multidimensional initiative that provides curricular materials, more about training and […]
August 28, 2014
Selfies and Digital Archives – BBC Radio Solent

Selfies and Digital Archives – BBC Radio Solent

  BBC Hindi covered Project India publishing both a video and web story about it. The Project was also featured on several occasions in the Hindustan Times. An update about Project India was also featured on BU’s News and Events website. The Project, phimosis a journalism collaborative initiative led by my colleague Chindu Sreedharan and […]
August 28, 2014
4 models and some science about social media content that sticks

4 models and some science about social media content that sticks

Reflections and tips from the Social Media that Sticks workshop delivered on June 12 as part of BU’s Festival of Learning June 12, buy 2014 has been a great day. A big thank you to all those who joined us including the University of Miami students, approved John Vinney, BU’s Vice-Chancellor, and colleagues in the […]
June 15, 2014
The 3 key elements of Social Media Management

The 3 key elements of Social Media Management

  A summary of the Social Media Management – content planning, prosthesis daily routine and tools workshop delivered on June 11 as part of BU’s Festival of Learning “Only organizations with big budgets do well on social media” someone told me yesterday at the Social Media Management workshop I ran as part of BU’s Festival […]
June 13, 2014
Bizcampbe #11 – lessons for academics from the start-up world

Bizcampbe #11 – lessons for academics from the start-up world

    It is the start-ups that I look up to these days. They look for the bright ideas and for the ways in which the world can be a better place and people can be happier. They do it on the move, endocrinologist out of traditional office hours and sometimes even out of traditional […]
June 7, 2014
Digital Communication Strategies Showcase and Free Surgery

Digital Communication Strategies Showcase and Free Surgery

  During the second week of April I had the pleasure of joining my colleague Dr Darren Lilleker on a staff exchange visit to the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, try Romania. Although I have lectured at NUPSPA (SNSPA) in Romania before, check this was the first time in 10 […]
May 8, 2014
Social Media Workshop for Charities – Adido, Bournemouth Univeristy & CEB

Social Media Workshop for Charities – Adido, Bournemouth Univeristy & CEB

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March 5, 2014
Managing social media – taster lectures in India

Managing social media – taster lectures in India

  I travel to India at least once a year (since 2012). This year however, stuff I had the opportunity to give lectures that represent a taster of what I teach at BU so I focused on managing social media, doctor a topic that proved to be of high interest both in the UK and […]
February 23, 2014
Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing

Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing

  Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.  
February 21, 2014
Social media monitoring tools in higher education – a conference paper

Social media monitoring tools in higher education – a conference paper

  Last week has been extremely busy with travels, prescription work, visit this site meetings and presentations both in Asia and Europe. It started with a lengthy journey to Thailand and a much expected participation in the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, advice organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. It has been […]
November 26, 2013
Social media for coastal and marine management

Social media for coastal and marine management

  The Dorset Coast Forum took place in Poole on the 14th of November. Desribed as a strategic partnership, pestilence the Forum brings together in a yearly event many local and national coastal and marine organizations to discuss long-term broad scale issues facing the Dorset coast and its inshore waters. Social media was on this […]
November 18, 2013
Third Sector Skills: Visual Communication @ BU’s Festival of Learning
Bu Festival of Learning

Third Sector Skills: Visual Communication @ BU’s Festival of Learning

  The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of theFestival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more […]
June 20, 2013
Social Media Strategy and Monitoring – BU’s Festival of Learning
Bu Festival of Learning

Social Media Strategy and Monitoring – BU’s Festival of Learning

  During the first two weeks of June, healing Bournemouth University organized over 100 free events as part of the Festival of Learning inviting the residents, NGOs, businesses and supporters of Bournemouth and Dorset to learn more about a wide variety of subject and meet BU’s staff and lecturers. It was a bidding process which […]
June 18, 2013
DCS featured on the CMC Student Showcase

DCS featured on the CMC Student Showcase

Whether one considers social media strategy to be part of wider marketing efforts or put it under a general communication strategy, audiologist questions about access and representation of a company and brand should always be asked. There aren’t only questions that deal with reputation management but also with maintaining a balance between freedom of speech […]
June 3, 2013
China & the world: focus on social media

China & the world: focus on social media

  While in Beijing I had the opportunity to deliver 2 guest lectures to students pursuing courses in journalism, viagra 60mg mass media and communication at two of the most prestigious universities in town: CUC (Communication University of China, discount ranked no 1 communication university in China) and BTBU (Beijing Technology and Business University, epilepsy […]
March 24, 2013
Digital Media Research

Digital Media Research

  Today I had the opportunity of lecturing via Skype to a group of Master’s students from the University of Kansas about digital media research. The invitation came from Dr Mugur Geana, sales Associate Professor of Strategic Communication; Director, geriatrician Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations at the William Allen White School […]
March 6, 2013
Social media guest lectures
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Social media guest lectures

  This is a very international week, seek one during which I get to be in Sweden on Monday, unhealthy at home in Bournemouth on Tuesday and in Belgium on a Wednesday… online. In reality I have been in the UK all the time, but has the wonderful opportunity to deliver to guest lectures. The […]
November 28, 2012
Social media metrics and analytics

Social media metrics and analytics

  Throughout the years, viagra 40mg I had numerous occasions to speak about social media metrics and analytics, and even covered them in a variety of lectures and posts (see teaching @ Chulalongkorn University in Bankok, Thailand; the exercises for PR and Branding classes, the 30+ tools for twitter). However, the rapid changes in the […]
November 26, 2012
Media Education Summit 2012

Media Education Summit 2012

  I had the opportunity and pleasure to present part of my work with and on social media in academia at this year’s Media Education Summit organized by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). Based on my upcoming book chapter “Social Media Audit and Analytics: Exercises for Marketing and Public Relations Courses”, web […]
September 12, 2012
Communicating the Occupation.

Communicating the Occupation.

  The Institute of Internal Communication has their Super Thursday on the 13th of November: launching the Communicator of the Year, illness celebrating the ICon Awards, FEIEA Grand Prix and Under 30s all interupted and supported by an Insight Seminar. My talk on social media and internal cross-cultural communication aimed to challenge current practices while […]
September 7, 2012
Social Media strategy and monitoring @ Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Social Media strategy and monitoring @ Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    I have just returned from a week in Thailand where I had the tremendous pleasure and honor to be invited to teach at the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University in Bagkok to a group of master students enrolled in the international MA in Strategic Communication Management. Presented in a workshop/lecture format […]
July 26, 2012
Creating a social media daily routine #engagingbmth

Creating a social media daily routine #engagingbmth

  Including monitoring, resuscitator measurement and analytics   Here’s my prezintation from yesterday’s talk given at Engaging the Public event organized by the Media School of Bournemouth University.  
July 7, 2012
#engagingbmth storify

#engagingbmth storify

  Yesterday has been filled of very interesting presentations from my colleagues and equally engaging and challenging questions from our guests.You can find the white paper Darren Lilleker and I wrote in the “Getting the message out” post, capsule and my presentation on creating a social media daily routine here. Here’s a short review of […]
July 7, 2012
Getting the message out – a social media daily routine with metrics and analytics included

Getting the message out – a social media daily routine with metrics and analytics included

  Today I am at the Executive Business Centre at Bournemouth University holding an event about politics and public engagement called “Engaging the Public: putting the people back into democracy”. The talks, rx cure inspired by our research and consultancy practice, check will introduce a wide range of ideas from understanding the political consumer to […]
July 6, 2012
Katho visiting lecturing evaluations

Katho visiting lecturing evaluations

  I have returned recently from two very intensive weeks of teaching at Katho in Belgium. It has been exhausting but extremely exciting at the same time. This is a partnership that has been going on since December  2008 and it has been a tremendous opportunity for teaching about and with new media, anesthetist both […]
June 19, 2012
[Infographic] The State of Social Media 2012

[Infographic] The State of Social Media 2012

  Produced by the SEO Company and NowSourcing, hepatitis the State of Social Media 2012 captures, viagra in a visually appealing manner, some of the major events of this past half year. If I were to summarize it, 2012 is all about money (Facebooks’ IPO, Instagram purchase, closing of Piknik by Google), power and dissent […]
May 24, 2012
How I met @thebrandbuilder

How I met @thebrandbuilder

Or Olivier Blanchard as business associates and friends might know him It all happened very quickly, impotent during the sessions of Leap into Digital, patient a one-day event organized by my colleague Amber Burton and Futurerising for our undergraduate students and looking into the all things digital as a place for future job prospects. Mentions […]
April 19, 2012
Internal Social Media (Bucharest, Romania)

Internal Social Media (Bucharest, Romania)

UPDATE: NOW WITH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE TALK   Organized by the FEIEA Academy (March 29, impotent 2012) I find myself speaking quite often about social media. Whether it is as part of the Digital Communication Strategies course I teach at Bournemouth University, artificial the New Media and Branding courses I am to teach […]
April 2, 2012
Twitter for academia – how to cite a tweet

Twitter for academia – how to cite a tweet

  It all started with calls for acknowledging the source of information shared as a means of providing some credibility checking for it. On the microblogging site Twitter several practices were in places from “via” to the more commonly agreed (and shorter) RT (re-tweet). Besides acknowledging a source, overweight the RT practice allows people (marketers/researchers) […]
March 13, 2012
Introducing @DCS_BU & dcsbu.wordpress.com

Introducing @DCS_BU & dcsbu.wordpress.com

  The Digital Communication Strategies course that I teach at Bournemouth University now has its own social media presence in the form of a twitter account, website like this blog and dedicated Delicious stack. This term is very practice-focused so it makes sense to enable the course to exist and operate within the environment that […]
January 27, 2012
A LinkedIn picture or the beauty and challenges of visualized data for researchers

A LinkedIn picture or the beauty and challenges of visualized data for researchers

These days we are innundated with data. Every question we have is a query. Every answer we give is an input, web a result. What we know or what we want to know is, sale in a way or another, searchable. More recently, we ourselves ARE data. Our visit to a website is a number […]
December 7, 2011
My CV as an infographic

My CV as an infographic

Update The visual CV platform arena is getting more competitive. After Vizualize.me generating CVs as infographics based on LinkedIn data, two more platforms are currently offering the same features: CVgram.me and Zerply. CVgram imports data from LinkedIn and enables editing when to it comes to linking skills with particular jobs. Zerply, on the other hand, […]
December 1, 2011
Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials

Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials

At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
October 31, 2011
Keynote – DICID 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue

Keynote – DICID 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue

During the past days I had the honor to offer the keynote address opening the thematic part of the 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue organized by the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) and sponsored by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has been an event that I have been waiting to happen for […]
October 26, 2011
A lecture from 3000 miles away

A lecture from 3000 miles away

  Photo credit:  Kenzo de Bruyn Yesterday (October 19, illness 2011) I had the pleasure to join live but virtually 45 students very interested in communication, for sale public relations, events management, advertising and social media. They were attending their weekly Public Relations Seminar Series organized by Geert Van den Eijnden at Lessius Mechelen in Belgium […]
October 20, 2011
Yahoo! – Encyclopedia of Social Networks

Yahoo! – Encyclopedia of Social Networks

  It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries […]
September 21, 2011
The Growth of Social Media – Infographic

The Growth of Social Media – Infographic

  I am working on a keynote address that will touch among others on the rise and impact of social media as a medium for communication that I have to deliver at a conference next month (details to follow later, heart I don’t want to spoil the surprise yet). To make my keynote more attractive […]
September 15, 2011
Essay: The Twitter #2016 #olympics bid (2009)

Essay: The Twitter #2016 #olympics bid (2009)

While checking out the notes and ideas that I might use for some future academic publications, discount I came across this essay (of sorts) that I wrote while the voting for the 2016 host of the Olympic Games was being broadcasted online and heavily commented on Twitter. While the attention the voting received online was […]
September 13, 2011
Social media policy – legal tool or communication strategy

Social media policy – legal tool or communication strategy

Whether one considers social media strategy to be part of wider marketing efforts or put it under a general communication strategy, buy questions about access and representation of a company and brand should always be asked. There aren’t only questions that deal with reputation management but also with maintaining a balance between freedom of speech […]
July 30, 2011
5 weeks, 5 days, 5 sessions of technology for education

5 weeks, 5 days, 5 sessions of technology for education

  After my teaching time as a visiting lecturer to Katho, this web I returned to Bahrain to embrace a new challenge. After the success of my Prezi workshops which have seen the powerpoint alternative very quickly adopted by academic staff around the campus, more about it made a lot of sense to try to […]
July 11, 2011
Teaching Media with New Media

Teaching Media with New Media

  This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense […]
July 5, 2011
Katho Branding course evaluation

Katho Branding course evaluation

This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, prostate I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
May 28, 2011
#kathonewmedia – 3 years later

#kathonewmedia – 3 years later

I have started teaching as a Visiting Lecturer at Katho in December 2008. I was returning to the institution that hosted me as an exchange student 5 years earlier. I swapped position in the classroom – from the student’s seat to the lecturer’s spotlight. When I wrote the New Media course syllabus I wanted it […]
May 22, 2011
Social Media: Exercises 4 PR & Branding #HigherEd Classes

Social Media: Exercises 4 PR & Branding #HigherEd Classes

When teaching public relations, marketing communications or branding in a social media context, I have discovered that using social media audit exercises will provide students with a combo of analysis, analytics and strategy. When performed by communication companies or consultancies, the social media audit is used as a means appraising where the company is currently […]
May 20, 2011
Katho New Media – 6th edition

Katho New Media – 6th edition

I have just finished delivering the 6th edition of the New Media course at Katho. This is the 3rd consecutive year when I join Katho for 2 weeks during each semester to deliver a course that I developed on my own and that combines theoretical information about creative industries – journalism, advertising and public relations […]
May 19, 2011
Prezi pow wow

Prezi pow wow

March 31, 2011
Media: Coverage of my EUPRERA Social Media Award

Media: Coverage of my EUPRERA Social Media Award

At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
March 25, 2011
I won EUPRERA’s Social Media Award!

I won EUPRERA’s Social Media Award!

At the beginning of this year I have entered my website in the EuroBlog Social Media Awards competition and was lucky enough to receive some support from colleagues and friends in the endeavor. Thank you to all of you who voted me because… I WON! My site has now an award for Most innovative use of […]
March 9, 2011
Capture that: recording and capturing (web) screens

Capture that: recording and capturing (web) screens

Visuals aids especially when talking about internet and technology are becoming increasingly important in a presentation. Whether it is just a print screen of a displayed webpage or a recording of what you do on the screen, price it is useful to know some of applications (free or freemium based) that can make capturing a […]
February 24, 2011
Words: beautiful, meaningful, colorful

Words: beautiful, meaningful, colorful

Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have […]
February 21, 2011
Video WON’T kill the lecturing star

Video WON’T kill the lecturing star

My network was buzzing today in reaction to Jonathan Wolff’s monthly column in the Guardian. In this month’s column Wolff, emergency professor of philosophy at University College London, physician compares his experiences of in person and video recorded lecture delivery and asks rhetorically whether lecturing styles are bound to change in the future now that more and […]
January 18, 2011
Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research

Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research

The middle of November was a busy and workshop-rich week for me. After a workshop on social media strategy and policy delivered at the UWS Library and a lecture on social media to support an acting career given to Stuart Hepburn‘s contemporary screen acting students, mycoplasmosis I also delivered with the great help and support […]
December 6, 2010
Social Media for University Libraries

Social Media for University Libraries

UWS Library Workshop
December 2, 2010
Katho New Media Course Evaluation – October 2010

Katho New Media Course Evaluation – October 2010

Another visit to Belgium is over and with it another successful delivery of the Katho New Media course. A big thank you goes to the students for their enthusiasm and hard work and to the Katho Hantal and those in charge of the Erasmus exchange program for making this happen again. Also a very big […]
November 14, 2010
30+ Twitter Tools for Research

30+ Twitter Tools for Research

NOTE: If you find this blog post useful please bookmark it. I am planning to include here the latest info on Twitter tools. For some time now, medicine I am doing my best to participate in a Twitter chat dedicated to social media measurement, generic #smmeasure, pharmacist as a means of exploring what practitioners do […]
November 6, 2010
ECREA 2010

ECREA 2010

October 18, 2010
New Media. New Games. Lessons from the Beijing Olympics for #media2012

New Media. New Games. Lessons from the Beijing Olympics for #media2012

an unconference talk covering 3 stories: of access, viagra of media and of cultural exchange New media. New games. Lessons from Beijing View more presentations from Ana ADI. On the 4th of October I was invited to speak about my Beijing Olympics experience and research at the launch of #media2012 blueprint for the London Olympics, during Abandon […]
October 6, 2010
Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify

Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify

If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links […]
September 28, 2010
2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education

2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education

a webinar hosted by Colt Alton, infertility founder of Ednak 2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education View more presentations from Ana ADI. On September 2nd I was invited to hold a webinar for Ednak, a thought networking utility for online educators, discussing this year’s social media trends that could influence higher education. It […]
September 4, 2010
New Media Research and Routes to Innovation

New Media Research and Routes to Innovation

  Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising  a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of […]
August 24, 2010
Free Video Conferencing Platforms for academic conferences, remote lecturers, research or group projects

Free Video Conferencing Platforms for academic conferences, remote lecturers, research or group projects

When I started my PhD 3 years ago there were many opportunities for guest lectures and workshops that I missed mainly because I was too far away from the places and institutions were these events were supposed to be held. Similarly, illness there were too many times when I wanted to submit a paper to a […]
August 5, 2010
10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators

10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators

I have delivered many conference presentations and guest lectures in the past, illness enough to realize that if one can have a slideshow with a twist (not the traditional click through powerpoint) half of the job of capturing the attention of the audience is done (of course, hepatitis this still requires a good presentation concept […]
August 2, 2010
Twitter tools for journalism and strategic communication students

Twitter tools for journalism and strategic communication students

An online live video guest lecture with real-life examples and immediate applicability On July 19, refractionist last Monday that is, I had the opportunity to speak to yet another group of Missouri School of Journalism students found in London for the summer for an exchange program. I say yet again because I have delivered numerous […]
July 27, 2010
2010 trends to influence higher education

2010 trends to influence higher education

Several weeks ago I was asked to deliver a talk that would describe trends and issues in the media in the following five years that I believed would influence higher education. As I believed the topic to be too broad and media as a term too unspecific (media can mean mass media, medicine can mean […]
July 12, 2010
Timelines

Timelines

At the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit held in Boston in June I presented a paper that heavily relied on historical data and therefore needed a simple yet memorable visualization. Ideally the tool I searched, pulmonologist had to: automatically order the data chronologically enable me to group or color code the events so that I […]
July 4, 2010
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Olympism sessions

ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Olympism sessions

There were two Olympism sessions at the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit touching mainly on two major topics: youth (as in the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education) and Human Rights (as in the Charter as a human rights promotion mechanism and one on the Olympic Truce). To them Dr Mary Hums’ presentation on a […]
June 12, 2010
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Innovation and New Media

ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Innovation and New Media

Even before I was accepted to deliver a presentation as part of the works of the summit, hygiene Eli A. Wolff and I have been in touch discussing on several occasions my views on the need of making events of the scope and role of the ISDPA summit available to people who for several reasons, […]
June 10, 2010
Katho New Media course evaluation – May 2010

Katho New Media course evaluation – May 2010

The two weeks of the Katho New Media course came and passed quickly. I had a smaller class this time which enabled me to better interact with the students and follow closer their progress. This also meant that the course was more intense (and intensive) as the teams were smaller. Unlike with the previous semesters […]
June 5, 2010
Community journalism

Community journalism

A vitual lesson from Citizens’ Eye This is the fourth semester when I deliver my New Media course at Katho but up until this month the lecture on community media and citizen journalism was perhaps the most abstract one. Although my students and I explore and question every semester the role of journalism and media […]
May 18, 2010
New Media for Research. Researching New Media

New Media for Research. Researching New Media

UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event for […]
April 29, 2010
Poster Presentation

Poster Presentation

UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, urticaria May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event […]
April 23, 2010
Aspects of Olympic Media

Aspects of Olympic Media

A guest lecture on using social media in communication environments I was invited again by Byron T. Scott, pills Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri – Columbia, cure to talk to a new group of Mizzou students in London. As the group of students I met last year at Imperial College, these too […]
April 15, 2010
The Twitter Olympics? I’d say the digital social activist Olympics.

The Twitter Olympics? I’d say the digital social activist Olympics.

Just days before the Games were ready to begin talks online were already debating the future of the Olympics and their relationship with the online, viagra approved social media. Many have asserted then that these Winter Games will mark the history of the Olympics by being the first where Twitter, buy as a micro-blogging platform […]
March 2, 2010
3rd International Business Sport Symposium

3rd International Business Sport Symposium

On February 19th, adiposity together with my supervisor Andy Miah and my PhD colleague Jennifer Jones, thumb I have attended the 3rd International Sport Business Symposium organized by UBC and the Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz.  The symposium brought olympic academics, IOC members and sports practitioners in the same room enabling a fruitful conversation after each […]
February 24, 2010
Fresh Media Olympics Conference

Fresh Media Olympics Conference

On the 16th of February, pulmonologist my PhD Colleague Jennifer Jones and I were invited in our quality of staff writers of Culture @ the Olympics to join an International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Radio here in Vancouver  discussing how journalists from across the world are covering the Olympics.We joined Jill Bennett and […]
February 23, 2010
Some questions about Olympic protests

Some questions about Olympic protests

On Friday, there December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open […]
January 27, 2010
Music 2.0

Music 2.0

On Friday, December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open sourcing […]
December 13, 2009
#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat 3

#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat 3

Yong C Lee, recipe the organizer of the weekly Social Media Education Chat on twitter has invited me today to talk about my Katho New Media class. Since it’s only a couple of days since the course resumed and the official course evaluation was not yet sent to the students, price I was honored by […]
December 7, 2009
Katho New Media Course Wrap-Up

Katho New Media Course Wrap-Up

Today is the final day of my New Media course that I teach to Erasmus students attending courses at Katho-Hantal. It is a day dedicated to a company visit during which students can see live what they’ve heard about while in class. This was the third semester when I taught the course and due to […]
December 3, 2009
PR 2.0

PR 2.0

A guest lecture to HoWest in Kortrijk, store Belgium. I have joined today a group second year students specializing in PR at HoWest in Kortrijk, diagnosis Belgium. This lecture was the result of an invitation I have received from Pieter Soete, this Lecturer in Communication Management. As with all the presentations I do, this was […]
December 2, 2009
Introduction to mass communication research

Introduction to mass communication research

A live video guest lecture to KathoNewMedia students by Dr Mugur Geana. Photo: Peter Budai I have started teaching my New Media course at Katho last week. This is the third edition, medications or better-said, the third semester when I am teaching it. Like with previous semesters, I am trying to continuously update the course […]
November 30, 2009
Visualization tools – update 2

Visualization tools – update 2

Animoto is to me a prettier and more dynamic slideshow. However, buy unlike a regular slideshow, Animoto offers plenty of integration choices when it comes to obtaining content, musical background or sharing it with other people. As such photos and videos can be uploaded from a computer or imported them other online platforms like Flickr, […]
November 30, 2009
Job hunting 2.0

Job hunting 2.0

An online video guest lecture at Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen in Belgium. I had the pleasure to give a lecture yesterday to students taking PR courses at HKM in Mechelen focusing on how students could use web 2.0 in their job hunt. The aim was to offer students tips that they could use when looking for […]
November 26, 2009
#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat 2

#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat 2

A week ago, skincare on Monday, discount November 9, hospital 2009 the Social Media Education Club organized their first twitter chat on social media education. Last week the questions asked were about measuring success of social media in education, developing the quality of social media curriculum, assessing schools using social media and identifying research or […]
November 16, 2009
Social Research Tools

Social Research Tools

I had the honor to be invited to deliver another lecture at to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication of The University of Kansas. Many thanks to Dr Mugur Geana for inviting me. This time however was to address a group of master’s students enrolled in a research methods class. My […]
November 12, 2009
#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat

#smcedu – Social Media Education Chat

Today the Social Media Education Club organized their first twitter chat on social media education. Attendants were few and all of them except me (maybe I’m wrong) were from the US. Some interesting questions were asked but I for one found the twitter chat quite confusing when it came to follow the conversation as people’s […]
November 9, 2009
Promethean – the interactive whiteboard

Promethean – the interactive whiteboard

and great classroom tool I have first used a Promethean board last week when I delivered my first lecture on behalf on On Track, and a program that aims, click among other things, healing to prepare Scottish college students to smoothly make their transition to university. The lecture addressed students taking courses at Reid Kerr […]
November 9, 2009
Live Video Guest Lecture – Florida Southern College

Live Video Guest Lecture – Florida Southern College

Back in May when in Lausanne, medic Switzerland I blogged and tweeted live from  IOC’s first ever International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development (IFSPD).  Just recently my review of the same event has been published in Culture @ the Olympics. I had a video guest lecture to Florida Southern College, mind to the class […]
September 17, 2009
Collaborative platforms

Collaborative platforms

Researchers in Europe would definitely benefit from including in their work routines some online collaborative tools. In this post I intend to present some of the collaborative platforms that allow sharing and live working on documents I have discovered during the past months. They are Google Docs, visit Socialtext, anaemia Colaab, OneHub and Scribblar. Out of […]
July 12, 2009
Visualisation tools – update

Visualisation tools – update

Some weeks ago I wrote a post about vizualization tools focusing on what could be useful for quantitative and qualitative researchers alike. I have mentioned then that my favorite was IMB’s ManyEyes platform. An update to that post is needed but this time I’ll be focusing on chart and diagram making applications. Below is a […]
May 20, 2009
Interactive timelines

Interactive timelines

Timelines are important and necessary visual elements that make any presentation that encompasses any historical information – be it personal, healthful institutional, youth health national or be it related to recently or long passed times -. Luckily there are a couple of platforms out there, rubella free of charge, that researchers can use to make […]
May 12, 2009
Presentations – creating and sharing online

Presentations – creating and sharing online

Over the past few months, this web I have come across a series of visualization options for new media research and not only. My favorite right now is ManyEyes, buy more about a platform powered by IBM, that offers plenty of visualization options for both qualitative and quantitative data. What you do: upload your data […]
April 22, 2009
Visualisation tools

Visualisation tools

Over the past few months, this web I have come across a series of visualization options for new media research and not only. My favorite right now is ManyEyes, buy more about a platform powered by IBM, that offers plenty of visualization options for both qualitative and quantitative data. What you do: upload your data […]
April 8, 2009
guest lecture @ Imperial College, London

guest lecture @ Imperial College, London

On Monday, thumb March 23, nurse I gave a lecture on using web 2.0 to promote creativity and creative work in social media and professional environments. The attendees of the lecture were students from the Missouri School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA, read more now in London for a semester […]
April 1, 2009
Teaching @ UWS

Teaching @ UWS

I am currently pursuing a Programme Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Part of the module requirements is providing the assessors with a teaching session to observe. Since my online teaching and teaching abroad were not accepted I had to ask for the support of others members of staff from my school. My […]
March 22, 2009
Katho New Media Course – Evaluation

Katho New Media Course – Evaluation

At the end of the New Media course I taught in Belgium, information pills I kindly asked the students to fill in an online evaluation survey. This enabled me to see how the students perceived their course experience, whether they believed they benefited from the classes as well as to determine what areas of the […]
March 1, 2009
New Media course @ Katho in Kortrijk

New Media course @ Katho in Kortrijk

I have been invited to offer a New Media course at Katho, physiotherapy the university where many years ago I studied as an Erasmus student. The course happened last week, from the 1st to the 5th of December, and was quite intensive involving 3 hours of teaching every day. Changing the roles and returning to […]
December 10, 2008
Presentations

Presentations

I have started writing my thesis… or at least organizing the literature review, clinic conference papers and other presentations that I’ve delivered during the last university year into a more logical, cure structured document. It is not at all a simple task since I have to revisit many of the articles I’ve once read as […]
November 8, 2008
Picidae – Journey to the end of the Internet

Picidae – Journey to the end of the Internet

The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, cystitis the more questions arise and the more challenges come with them. Nevertheless, hemorrhoids […]
October 19, 2007
human rights – continued

human rights – continued

The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, cystitis the more questions arise and the more challenges come with them. Nevertheless, hemorrhoids […]
October 19, 2007