The simple way to kill fake news
"Twitter is a wonderful thing for me," said Donald Trump the other day, "because I get the word out." And not only that. The US...
How to milk a rubbernecker into a CNN witness
I walk past Maelbeek metro station every morning. I was nearby when a terrorist blew it up, along with himself and 20 others,...
How to host a tweet chat when you’ve been dead for 52 years
Can a Twitter chat with the late "Father of Europe", Robert Schuman, engage more eurotweeps than a live chat with a European commissioner who isn't dead? [UPDATE JUNE 2016: We're doing...
The guru ninjas doubled your traffic with social media. Now triple it.
You may have seen this first graphic in a Kissmetrics blog post last year. Or a similar one in this Buffer post last month. It's been...
Why it doesn’t matter that no one watched your live stream
We tell stories with live happenings on the web. Here's one simple way we boost our returns. A successful happening online is more than...
How to host a live chat without the trolls, spam and negativity
Worried about trolls, spam or negative sentiment corrupting your live chat? Stop sweating and start scripting a "happening" online. This month we created a happening online...
5 ways to inflate your social share numbers. How far would you go?
Those numbers you see next to social share buttons in news articles and blog posts? They're misleading at best, and grossly inflated at...
How to create happenings on Twitter
I was kindly invited to speak at the Brussels Twitter Festival. Here’s some of what I talked about, and some of what I didn’t. If...
“Beforetime” is to realtime what foreplay is to sex. So why are you ignoring it?
This article was published by Netocratic in two parts, on 5 March and 12 March 2013. I’ve made some minor changes in combining the...
Mostar old bridge diving, brought to you by an Iphone
This article was published by Netocratic on 23 July 2013, a few days before the Mostar Old Bridge diving competition in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was the...