Research: Instagram study on Romanian Presidential Elections is out now
#yeslavot is finally out. Our article (co-authored with Roman Gerodimos and Darren Lilleker, both from Bournemouth University) is finally out in Javnost – The Public. This is based on Instagram data we collected in 2014 during the second round of the Romanian Presidential elections and is, perhaps, the first Instagram study looking at political communication, […]
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:
Im Chat – PR Magazin interview with Andrea Fratini
I had the pleasure to be recently interviewed for PR Magazin, recipe a magazine dedicated to communicators in Germany and beyond, by Andrea Fratini, Director of Corporate Communications at the Bauer Media Group. The “Im Chat” is a section where communicators ask other communicators about various issues relevant to their job and practice and the […]
I have just received in the post today my complimentary copies from Emerald of “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age”. Part of David Crowther`s Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility series, side effects this volume edited with Georgiana Grigore and David Crowther is the first I co-edited. It has been quite a journey with […]
How social media can help internal cross-cultural communication
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Social media for charities event ran with Adido was a success. News about the event and associated initiative were also featured on BU’s News and Events website as well as on the Dorset Chamber.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Out now: 2 chapters on social media in higher education
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of the Festival 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
A guest lecture to MA students of the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, hemophilia Bucharest, unhealthy Romania (March, gastritis 2012) Business Promotion & Social Media on Prezi The end of March has been really busy. After a thought challenging event dedicated to social media for internal communication, I continued my day with a […]
A guest lecture to students following the Interactive Media Strategies (IMS) course at Bournemouth University The 13th of February saw me start my day not with the usual DCS lecture but with a guest talk to a group of our MA students. My task was to speak about crisis communication and crisis management in a web […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
