Jason Stampers Blog

Labour's 'Twitter tsar' in sense of humour failure shock?

Published on 2009-08-25 06:49:51

After a satirical blog I wrote asking whether the magician Paul Daniels would make a better 'Twitter tsar' than Labour MP Kerry McCarthy, I receieved the following short shrift from McCarthy herself in a reply to me on Twitter: (a) the party is not calling me that, (b) it's Bristol East, (c) look at % of replies not just tweets - that's what counts. Obviously I have now corrected the fact I had said she was MP for Bristol West, rather than Bristol East. Mea culpa. As for her point (b) -- "the

Would Paul Daniels make a better 'Twitter tsar'?

Published on 2009-08-24 11:51:18

News that Labour has hired what some are calling a ‘Twitter tsar’ - in the shape of Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East – begs the question as to what qualifications make one suitable for such a post. With just 2,424 followers on Twitter despite 4,555 tweets, one wonders how much she really knows about micro-blogging. To put McCarthy’s following in context, it’s worth noting that magician Paul Daniels has built up a following of 22,421 through almost exactly the same number of Tweet

Podcast: SuccessFactors on clouds, competition and enterprise social networking

Published on 2009-08-20 05:00:15

This is a podcast of an interview I did this week with Paul Albright, SuccessFactors' general manager of SMB and also their chief marketing officer. In it, I ask him why he believes SuccessFactors' software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach to what it calls talent management helped it record 44% revenue growth in its latest quarter despite the down economy. We go on to discuss the difference between cloud computing and SaaS, internal versus external clouds and why Albright argues that SuccessFactors