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One In 10 Couples Share A Social Media Profile [STUDY]

Do you share your Twitter or Facebook profile with your partner? Let’s get specific. Do you and your significant other both login, read and update...

3 Tips For Effective Social Media Customer Service [INFOGRAPHIC]

Over the last few years there’s been a huge shift towards using platforms such as Twitter and Facebook for customer service, with one in...

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Introduces Payment Via Twitter And Facebook

Picture the scene: you’re looking to travel somewhere nice for your vacation, and you’re using Twitter to search out good ideas from friends and...

Emerging Nations Embrace Internet, Mobile Technology

Cell Phones Nearly Ubiquitous in Many Countries Survey Report In a remarkably short period of time, internet and mobile technology have become a part of everyday...

Twitter for Diplomats: A Guide to the Fastest Growing Digital Diplomacy Tool

Twitter is not only the fastest growing form of social media around, but also a veritable initiation to digital diplomacy for most ambassadors around...

Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web

    Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very...

[Today in PD] Half A Million ‘Internet Censorship’ Tweets in Turkey

The BBC's James Reynolds watched as events unfolded in Taksim Square Turkish riot police have fired water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators...

Webinar digest: Information gathering in the post Snowden era

This webinar  tackled the question of information gathering on the Internet, and the impact of Edward Snowden’s revelations on same. Bearing in mind the most...

Are phones still phones? [Guest blog]

A twenty-first-century behavioural culture shock often experienced is that of the difference in screening phone calls as opposed to picking up the phone, regardless...

Social Media Helps Diplomats Engage — Online and Off

By Molly McCluskey When Ambassador Ritva Koukku-Ronde of Finland finally took the dive into Twitter in December 2012, she was in the company of another...