This was the #1 ranked website for the search phrase social media Scotland for 13 years. In 2007, after attending Mike Coulter’s EdCM for a year or so, I got andrewburnett.com to rank #1 on google.co.uk and google.com for the search phrase “social media Scotland”, it was a wee challenge to myself to see if…
In the late nineties I was an apprentice in Zürich and developed a serious addiction to vinyl. Good vinyl costs proper money and apprentices don’t make proper money. So, I did what many addicts do, I gave up food in favour of my fix. As the J.B.’s sang “Givin’ Up Food For Funk”. Thankfully my…
In 2008 I was asked to attend a meeting outside London as a social media consultant to an SEO agency. Other appointments in London meant I was going to miss the beginning of the meeting, but I was assured that would be just fine and could I still come please. When I got there, I…
So, Facebook has replaced the “maybe” button for events. This means, very simply, that people will now have to either say “Interested” / “Going” or, “Ignore”. A lot has been made of “Interested” whilst it would seem that “Can’t go” being replaced by “Ignore” has largely, well, largely been ignored… anyway, never mind about that,…
There are calls from the BMA for the UK government to raise a 20% tax on sugary drinks with an aim to tackle obesity [source: BBC]. The goal is beyond doubt an honourable one, but the goal is not the problem. This is doomed to failure and simply will not result in long term behavioural…