Dan Wilson
Blog URL http://www.wilsondan.co.uk
Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Tags ebay, politics, social media, ecommerce, community manager, customer engagementa, author, copywriter, blogger
Dan Wilson: UK-based writer, community manager, engagement specialist, social media brain, eBay expert... also, politics, whimsy and music.
Latest Blog Posts
- My Suggested New Tory Logo Straplines
Seeing as some Conservative goon rather foolishly gave the whole interwebs the opportunity to customise the Tory logo with new straplines, I rather thought it would be rude not to take up that opportunity. Yes. All a bit childish and partisan. But re...
- Online Community Reading
Here are a few things I've been reading. I'm fascinated by the whys and wherefores of interaction on the web. All of these blogs, pages and ideas have provoked a reaction from this community manager. Pew Internet provide this fascinating graph chart...
- UKYP: must it be ‘adversarial’?
I'm loving Twitter at the moment. I got an @wilsondan from the great Sir Stephen Fry over the weekend and today, the Member for Twitter, responded too. Huzzah. Tom Harris is the Labour MP for Glasgow South and he was responding to my tweet re the U...
- Ada Lovelace Day: Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman was the CEO and President of eBay from 1998 to 2008 and is now pursuing a bid for the Governorship of California. She led one of the biggest technology-based companies in the world, taking it from start-up to global dominance. In many way...
- The Guardian and MPs’ Expenses: Loving the Crowd
I’ve been doing my bit for transparency and democracy in the last day or so, using the Guardian's crowdsourcing tool to scour the thousands of documents related to MP expenses. I’ve reviewed just over 300 pages. It's taken me a fair few hours. H...
- A Letter to the Daily Mail
Don't ask me why I was reading both the Daily Mail yesterday, but I was. There was a letter from one reader in response to a recruitment drive by police forces to recruit more officiers from gipsy groups. My jaw dropped. I'm slightly surprised that...
- The Practical Way to Keep Fit
I picked up a set of about 12 self-help manuals in a charity shop a few weeks back. They have proved to be mightily entertaining. I think Harry Robert's 1939 volume 'The Practical Way to Keep Fit' is superb. The illustrations are of particular amusem...
