One CommentOne of the funniest and yet brilliant music success stories i’ve seen actually happened to my former flatmate, Lee Kirby.
About 3 years ago, Lee picked up the guitar for the first time and spent hours practising and writing songs. During this period he also started singing songs in Vietnamese, which was not surprising because he loves the Vietnamese culture. This started 7 years earlier when he said he would be the 1st English player to play professional football in Vietnam. He achieved this and since then his love affair began. …
Hi everyone
I have been very slack on the blog posting recently but I can assure you that I will be blogging regulary again from…..NOW .
There has been a good reason though and that is because I have been working on my school project. For those who do not know I created and now have implemented the 1st social media course in UK schools, which was linked to GCSE English.
The results were amazing and have seen children get B’s and A’s in some of their coursework. See, social media is …
Twitter was definitely THE social media network phenomenon of 2009. Both celebrities and us common folk alike got slightly carried away with the fun of being able to randomly announce to our followers what we were doing, as and when we wanted. Whether as a means to occupy us whilst bored at work or on the move using phones, everyone seemed to get the Twitter bug and became addicted to the challenge of communicating in no more than 140 characters!
One of Twitter’s big attractive features was that it bridges …
The last half of the naughties saw a lot of growing trends; availability of Broadband on a large scale, online video growth went through the roof, connecting to friends/acquantances became easier and the gap between an unreachable celeb to the common folk decreased due to the likes of MySpace & Facebook. However with the good, always comes the bad – and they can trend too! One in particular has been the rise of the Internet Gangster.
Urban Dictionary describes these “hoodlums” as: “One who uses the internet as a front for …
If you have been living under a rock this Christmas or don’t live in the UK, then you must have been aware of the Xmas battle for Number 1 in the charts: X Factor’s Joe McElderry Vs Rage Against The Machine (RATM). It’s no secret that the power of Facebook made RATM victory, so here at The Worst Kept Secret we took it upon ourselves to have a bit of fun and see what TV reality music stars have the largest presence on Social Media.
We used the big 4: Facebook …
Was just sent this great presentation on social media that I wanted to share.
Unfortunately I can’t take any credit for the slideshow, which goes to Marta Kagan, but its a follow up to last year’s ‘What the F**k is Social Media’ and manages to summarise the key opportunities that exist with social networking extremely well – there is a lot of noise out there but this is one of the rare examples where some clear messages leap out from the noise.
Enjoy
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
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Jay-Z once said, “A wise man told me don’t argue with fools/because people from a distance can’t tell who is who”.
When he said this in 2001, there was no Twitter, Facebook or even MySpace. So if you saw two people arguing, it would usually be in the flesh. A few years later, arguing online seems common place and depending on the size of your network, a lot of people can watch the argument unfold. People don’t always know who started it, and probably don’t care, …
Underneath is what I mentioned above. Big thanks to Nic Howell and NMA for the support.
When I first started working for MySpace in 2006, I could understand why people were saying that social media was a fad and had no intellectual merit as there were only a couple of major players in the game. Three short years later we have some of the biggest websites in the world in the social media camp and there’s now talk of social media being introduced into the classroom. Unfortunately not all of …
I have worked in music and online for over 10 years now and I used to think that it was just this industry where it was not based on talent alone to break in. However over the years I realised it’s every industry. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
One of the reasons social networks have become so powerful is because people are becoming famous overnight. Unless you were already a celeb, the 1 thing in common people who became famous all had were powerful communities ie, …
See I believe in money, power, and respect.
First You get the money.
Then you get the muthaf*ckin, power.
After you get the f*ckin’ power muthaf*ckas will respect you.
(Little Kim-money, power and respect (radio edit))
I think this is true in gangster films and some aspects of real life but if you relate this to the world of social media, I think it is in reverse. First you get the respect, then you get the power and once you have the power then you will get the money.
Respect
Content is king and to have …
