I recently joined the Open Rights Group as a member and was asked to respond to the Governments Online Harms regulation plans within their open consultation which ends the 1st of July - Online Harms White Paper - Government Consultation
Below is my response. Please do the same and keep the UK free from unelected regulators that could harm freeness of speech.
While we all agree there is a need to tackle and deal with both illegal and harmful content online this must be put…
It’s all fake news anyway!
Fake news is in the news. It's been headline activity ever since Trump helped propagate it within his ongoing media ramblings. Used now by him and his entourage of bewildered future inmates it has become a distraction technique during and after his presidential campaign. Having now successfully driven the narrative in order to be able to deflect anything that is said negatively about him, even by his beloved Fox News, as a five-year-old in…
Great blogging. Perhaps anyone will want to be a great blogger. Many people all over the world nowadays are quite interested in blogging. If you're determined to become a good blogger, you've already set your…
PR and SEO
Public relations and search engine optimisation may seem like two polar opposites in the marketing tool box. But if you work in PR it would be good…
Google tries to understand your website to ensure it is relevant to the searches that people are making. This means when planning or optimising a website we need to consider this and make it easier for Google to find the…
Search Engine Marketing put simply is the use of offsite (away from website) and onsite (on your website) optimisation and promotion techniques, technologies and tools, including advertising to get your website noticed by…
The term social marketing often gets confused with social media marketing. To make matters worse social marketing quite often uses social media in its marketing toolkit. But social marketing is actually a discipline in…
Individuality
We are all different and because of that, we all see the world in our own unique way as we delete, distort and generalise what we take in based on our cognitive biases. Yet in many ways we are predictable and…
A useful toolbox for consumer profiling, behavioural marketing and communications analysis, strategic SEO and digital marketing planning but also a great set of tools, techniques and technologies for combating online threats, fraud and…
Let's start with this article by introducing you to the world of behavioural economics. What is it? It is literally as it sounds. Its where the behavioural sciences meet the world of economics. It’s the field of study in psychology that looks at…
Business today can be tricky and sometimes you need the financial support to make the right investment in technology or infrastructure to maximise on the opportunities when they come. On this site, we do not offer financial advice but we do put you in touch with the lenders who can and who specialises in helping small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.
If you are looking for asset…
Here is where if this was a self-help book, I…
Those formative years that I mentioned earlier are so important. They really are and the clue is in the title. They are our “formative” years. They help define and…
More and more people are trying to lose weight the natural way. This often means by controlling their diet and following a good exercise program. But along with these weight loss ideas many people are desperately looking for other answer to speed…
Anxiety Attack Symptom: Triggers of Stress
Stress and anxiety are considered to be the natural defense mechanisms of the body that are triggered off whenever we have to face an unpleasant situation. However, when these defense mechanisms…
It is a common assumption that vegetarians are healthier than meat eaters and that is the main benefit of the vegetarian diet. Of course, it is possible to be a vegetarian and be unhealthy but it seems that statistics do support the common assumption. There may be many reasons for this and one may well be that the decision to abstain from eating meat is one which results in a…
High Blood Pressure Diet Lowers Risks
Once a person has been diagnosed with hypertension it is often suggested to them that they follow a high blood pressure diet to help bring their blood pressure under control. The first suggestion on new eating habits will reflect the person’s weight. Any person who is overweight has a higher risk of hypertension. Therefore any diet that you are put on could be one to help you shed a few pounds. On the other hand if weight is not an issue the diet…
There are two new healthy food choices for those who are concerned about eating right, and a new debate has sprung up in recent months about the relative merits of organic food vs. local food. Many people, if they answered without thinking about it, would probably assume that local and organic are the same thing. But, in fact, they are not. Not all organic food is grown locally; not all local food is grown organically. So what is local food, what is organic food, and--most pertinent question…
Who says that getting into home brewing is difficult? It's not and when you are properly guided with the right and easy to understand steps, then having your first brew could be yours in a few days. For you guidance, here are five (5) easy steps that you can check out and follow if you are interested in taking home brewing as a business or just a hobby.
• It all starts with selecting the equipment. Home brewing will not be successful if you are not armed with the right equipments. Now…
I have so much to say right now with everything going on in the world and the disinformation and cognitive propaganda machines in full swing.
Unfortunately between working around 60 hours a week, studying for my postgrad in data-driven marketing and family life I am having very little time.
My aim for this site is to use it as analytical tool that show, hack and expose the Cognitive Marketing & Communication machines of big business, politics and the media in order for us…
I wonder how many #voteleave voters align themselves with this lot? Brexit supporters clash with police at Downing Street after march - The hateful racist speech of the EDL and UKIP are really showing their true colours? …
The web is full of content. Full of videos, memes and a lot of other crap. Constant tweets and likes, shares and burps all in your face. In the world of digital marketing we are told to “make a lot of noise” as much as you can so that you have a chance of getting heard.
We are also being told to keep it short. Keep…
The hopeful result from this blogging site/social community is a book. A digital and printed book that can sit on my virtual or real shelf with pride. The issue I have always had with writing a book about digital marketing (and that is not all this is but it is the underlying theme) is that by the time you finish the third or fourth chapter your content can be out of date.…
If people knew what kind of future global warming would actually bring, they would likely want to do more to help the environment. The problem is that predicting the future of global warming is a very complex task. Just as the local weatherman does not always get it right, neither can the predictor of global warming.
Some of the difficulties inherent in forecasting future global warming have to do with those same factors that every meteorologist faces. Winds can cool the air or warm…
Our words matter.
In fact, they are paramount.
The words we choose to speak, listen to and tell ourselves shape the narratives of our lives and the lives around us. Words and the narratives they form shape society and indeed the…
Have you ever noticed how everybody in a conversation seems to be poised to talk and say their piece and no one ever…
Lesson 10: Pull the buying trance trigger
By this point you have read 9 powerful sales and communications lessons that all on their own can get you to this point. All,…
Lesson 9: recognise buying triggers …
Start off by Setting Three to Four Simple KPI’s…
Until now I have not really touched on the specific subject of data in any great detail. Partly because there is simply so much of it, detail and data I mean. The fact is that this is an entire book and website in its…
