Mark Flanagan
@markflanagan.bsky.social
Advisor, board member specialising in strategic communications, public affairs, crisis and M&A. Husband of BBC’s Jo Coburn, dad to Max and Tom. Based Chiswick and sometimes Malaga.
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Whilst X drowns in bots, extreme content, misinformation & its own vomit Bluesky Hits 25 Million Users👏
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Bluesky Hits 25M Users As Exodus From X Continues
The social media platform has added over 10 million users since U.S. Election Day.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Whilst X drowns in bots, extreme content, misinformation & its own vomit Bluesky Hits 25 Million Users👏
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Tom Whitwell's 52 Things I Learned is one of my favorite things to read every year.
It's also fun to look back through the last decade. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
It's also fun to look back through the last decade. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
52 things I learned in 2024
This year I took a sabbatical, recorded a podcast with Freakonomics, designed and shipped a tiny modular synthesiser, and learned many…
medium.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Tom Whitwell's 52 Things I Learned is one of my favorite things to read every year.
It's also fun to look back through the last decade. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
It's also fun to look back through the last decade. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
“There’s an echo of Twitter’s golden era” The PR industry’s verdict on @bluesky www.prweek.co.uk/article/1896...
PR makes the leap to Bluesky – but what’s the verdict so far?
As social media users appear to flee X in favour of the aptly named alternative – Bluesky – PRWeek UK asks comms pros how they’re finding the new platform in its early days of popularity.
www.prweek.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 1:51 PM
“There’s an echo of Twitter’s golden era” The PR industry’s verdict on @bluesky www.prweek.co.uk/article/1896...
Excellent hire by @thetimes.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
🟡 Pivot to what | Semafor | Semafor
In this edition: a wide swath of scoops.
www.semafor.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Excellent hire by @thetimes.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
Useful primer on @bsky.app www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it?
Bluesky is picking up one million new users every day at its current rate.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Useful primer on @bsky.app www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Remarkable story and tribute to Lucy Manning’s tenacity- but, as she says, getting justice shouldn’t be this hard and getting justice shouldn’t be the victim’s struggle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Manning: A sexually obscene phone call - and my two-year ordeal getting police to act
BBC correspondent Lucy Manning describes having to fight at every moment to keep her case on track.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Remarkable story and tribute to Lucy Manning’s tenacity- but, as she says, getting justice shouldn’t be this hard and getting justice shouldn’t be the victim’s struggle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Have always been interested in Harold Wilson and very few biographers have ever captured the human side. Looks like Alan Johnson has done it. www.thetablet.co.uk/books/a-beli...
A believer but never devout - The Tablet
Harold Wilson
www.thetablet.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Have always been interested in Harold Wilson and very few biographers have ever captured the human side. Looks like Alan Johnson has done it. www.thetablet.co.uk/books/a-beli...
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🚨OUT NOW🚨 Should Westminster Quit Twitter?
📱Labour MP Josh Simons, Topham Guerin co-founder Ben Guerin, and political reporter Zoe Crowther join Alain Tolhurst to discuss whether politicos should finally wean themselves off Twitter
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/282957
📱Labour MP Josh Simons, Topham Guerin co-founder Ben Guerin, and political reporter Zoe Crowther join Alain Tolhurst to discuss whether politicos should finally wean themselves off Twitter
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/282957
November 15, 2024 at 10:57 AM
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Should Westminster Quit Twitter?
📱Labour MP Josh Simons, Topham Guerin co-founder Ben Guerin, and political reporter Zoe Crowther join Alain Tolhurst to discuss whether politicos should finally wean themselves off Twitter
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/282957
📱Labour MP Josh Simons, Topham Guerin co-founder Ben Guerin, and political reporter Zoe Crowther join Alain Tolhurst to discuss whether politicos should finally wean themselves off Twitter
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/282957
November 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM