#followfriday (or #ff) is a tradition started by Micah Baldwin (according to Mashable), whereby you name Twitter user your followers should know about. In addition to naming interesting users on Twitter, I provide a bit of background information on them in here. Enjoy! I met James some years ago, when I was teaching at Henley … Continue reading #followfriday: @JamesLRamsay

Over the years, I heard my fair share of unorthodox methods used to deliver an important lesson. But I am wondering if deliberately lying to the students is a step too far. Let me know what you think. It’s that time of the year when I get lots of essays to mark, and I meet … Continue reading Would lying to students help them learn?

One of Oxford Brookes University’s bright doctoral students is collecting data for her study on what drives consumers to talk online about their travel and tourism consumption experiences. Can you help by completing her survey? Link below. The emergence of Web 2.0 has had tremendous impact on the volume and reach of electronic word of … Continue reading Exciting new research on drivers of electronic word of mouth in travel and tourism

In this post I share a presentation on principles of business analytics. My colleague Diana Limburg asked me, not along ago, to run a session on business analytics, as part of her module on eBusiness. This is a very popular course, attended by 2nd and 3rd year students. The session on analytics lasts about 45 … Continue reading Teaching business analytics: Why, What and How

Take last week’s earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. Like many others, I learned about it on Twitter. Soon, however, there were conflicting messages around about whether or not there was a tsunami alert. As I was debating this with my better half, I said: “No, there is no tsunami alert… because @BBCBreaking says so’. … Continue reading #followfriday: @BBCBreaking

It is something more important. It is a thank you note. And a note of encouragement. It is a thank you to @arjantupan for sending me a handwritten thank you note. Not the thank you - it really was unnecessary. But for handwriting it. In this age of technology mediated communication, where sending out messages … Continue reading This is not a real blog post

I made my first crowd funding investment. It’s a very small investment, but I’m quite excited. This post reports on research examining ‘How and why consumers turn into crowd-funding participants’. Perhaps you are a seasoned investor. Perhaps you had a go (or several) at crowd funding, already. Not me. I have been looking at this … Continue reading A taste of crowd funding

Sidneyeve Matrix is an academic based in Canada. On Twitter, she is known as @sidneyeve and has over 17,000 followers – perhaps you are one of them, in which case, great! If you aren’t, read on. There is a reason why @sidneyeve has more than 17,000 followers. She shares great excellent content on the impact … Continue reading #followfriday: @sidneyeve

The UK government has announced the intention to monitor the calls and online activity of everybody in the UK. In this post, I look at how profiling - like the one proposed by the government - is done. I confess: When I saw the news headlines, on April 1st, I thought that it was an … Continue reading Of behaviours, signals and profiles

I wonder if people need to capture and share evidence of a moment, in order to feel that they have lived it. I am on my way back from a concert. Around me, people were snapping pictures with their smartphones, which they quickly shared with others in their social networks. Look at the man on … Continue reading If you didn’t share it, did you live it?