Tag: Twitter

• Everyone Failed Social Media : Except Mark Colvin

  I knew Mark Colvin (and his kidney!) purely through Twitter! And sad at his loss. I did read some of his interview transcripts: a gentle questioner able to get a better answer! But in the maelstrom that is Twitter, he came across as funny, intelligent, curious, never ever patronising, clever and subtle, a joy to…

  Andrew Whalan

  May 11, 2017

  Opinions

  Australia, Listening, Mark colvin, Social media, Social Networking, Twitter

• Learning Disagreement Skills

  

  Go on, click the angry icon. Share the negative post or tweet.

  Andrew Whalan

  May 10, 2017

  Opinions

  Disagreement, Education, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Listening, Social media, social media trolling, Twitter

• Trolls and Insults….If all you can do is call me names then you have run out of facts!

  Often on Twitter I am witness to many different conversations both great, good, bad and truly vile. One I just witnessed was the use of the insult: Unfortunately, the insult landed. VanBadham’s father recently died (of cancer on the 19th March 2013). Her response to my (and many many others) sympathy and to the insults…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 31, 2013

  Opinions

  Facebook, Insult, Online Communities, Percentage, Politics, Social Networking, Trolls, Twitter, Van Badham

• Hope She’s Right

  Two days after being burgled, this happened on twitter! Thank you @whatjanesays!

  Andrew Whalan

  March 2, 2013

  Personal

  Online Communities, Social Networking, Twitter

• Social Media Simplified

  Imagine you’re invited to a party. You check the date, time and place. You get ready and turn up. You expect to be the centre of attention. But when you arrive, the party is happening and has been going forever. Everybody is talking at once. Everybody seems to know everyone else.  People will stop talking,…

  Andrew Whalan

  January 24, 2013

  Personal

  Business, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Social media, Social network, social-media, Twitter

• Getting the Introduction Right (Networking)

  Once I thought networking was all about introducing yourself. But after some contemplation, I realised it worked best for me when I introduced others. And got that right. And that took some doing. The first time I got it wrong was when I had just met a beautiful girl at a dance. I introduced her to…

  Andrew Whalan

  December 4, 2012

  Personal

  Business networking, Friendship, Interpersonal relationship, people, Relationships, Twitter

• Activated Almonds : Laughing and Learning

  I feel so silly. I got sucked in by the latest Twitter fad. Which hopefully has almost died down. I’m talking about the Activated Almonds tweet storm.  It began Sunday. I was at first curious. But then I was amused by the social media humour fest (see Leigh Sales, John Birmingham, just to name a few). I even…

  Andrew Whalan

  November 7, 2012

  Personal

  Aktavite, Almond, John Birmingham, Leigh Sales, Peter Evan, Sunday, Twitter

• Being Strategic About Trolling

  

  Recently I was trolled on Facebook. Someone left some rather unsavoury comments on a photo I posted.   After some thought and some research, I deleted the post and blocked the person from Facebook. The personal effects on me are just that, private and personal. But it raises some questions for me and for anyone…

  Andrew Whalan

  July 31, 2012

  Personal

  Facebook, Google, Online Communities, Personal Effects, Social media, Social network, Troll, Twitter

• What is True Gallantry Anyway?

  Lou Pardi’s experience of men patronising women but then being just so sweet and nice about it is summarised in the following blog (http://pardipardi.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/dilemma-unintentional-misogyny/). When I quickly read it, my summary was tweeted as “Men are still uncomfortable with successful women and cover it up with false gallantry”. My comments were retweeted by the writer and…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 5, 2012

  Personal

  Social media, Twitter

• The Why Is Missing from Politics….

  The Why Is Missing Today in politics we had a Prime Minister reelected overwhelmingly by her party. The former Foreign Minister is now vanquished and will eventually shuffle off into the political night. Such is politics. Like many people, I was left wondering why. Why did Julia Gillard defeat Kevin Rudd the first time? Why…

  Andrew Whalan

  February 27, 2012

  Opinions

  Foreign Minister, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Politics, Prime minister, Twitter

• Social Media is Old-Fashioned (Really!)

  Before social media, there was the grapevine, bush telegraph or rumour mill. I found this out growing up in two small country towns. Basically, my parents knew everything about everyone. There were no secrets there, and now there seem to be none on the internet! Of course, this is the negative back-biting side of social…

  Andrew Whalan

  February 26, 2012

  Personal

  Blog, Facebook, Pinterest, President, Social media, Social media marketing, Twitter, Vocus