Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online by Antony Mayfield, www.amazon.co.uk/... Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online by Antony Mayfield, www.amazon.co.uk/... Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online by Antony Mayfield, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
The New Normal: Explore the Limits of the Digital World by Peter Hinssen, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice by Martin Weller, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business by Erik Qualman, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution by Brian Solis, www.amazon.co.uk/... 
What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences by Brian Solis, www.amazon.co.uk/... Revisiting Google+, An Old Post, and the Social Media Ecosystem.
Over two years ago now, I wrote one of my first blog posts, focusing on the newly launched Google+ social network and predicting - with a slight dose of hope-induced exaggeration (I did, and still do, like the service, and wanted it to succeed) - that with its introduction there would be something of a shakeup to the social media world.
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Digital Economy USRG Contributions to Web Science MOOC #FLwebsci
On 11th November 2013 the University of Southampton will be running its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), focusing on Web Science – a taster of how the web is changing the world and how the world is changing the web. It will be the first of many courses that will be made available in partnership with platform provider FutureLearn for people to study online, for free, wherever they are based in the world.
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A Social Media Awakening
Why charities are now starting to campaign against people 'Liking' them on social mediaThroughout my PhD topic of analysing charitable marketing on social media, I have passionately held the opinion that measuring social media pages and content using measures of popularity such as likes or followers is severely limited and represents something far more like slacktivism than real charitable activism.
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