In our house, we have battles with our kids about the amount of time they spend on their phones. And yesterday I came across a very interesting tweet on the subject from Sonia Livingstone OBE, Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and...

Just under a month ago, I wrote a post about my two Twitter accounts, and my dilemma about whether to keep using the grey Paul__Parry account or switch to the much older but more human-sounding @Pazza. I spoke to a great friend whose opinion on such matters I trust...

On a podcast I listened to a few years ago (an episode of the Fizzle Show, which I’d recommend), Chase Reeves, one of the presenters, said that one of the best things you can do to help you focus and get productive is set a deadline. So I’ve decided that I want to...

Fundraising coupled with social media is one of the best combinations anywhere online. Fundraising has obviously been around for a very long time, as has social proof (doing something because you know that your friends or other people like you have already done it)....

There are companies online whose profit comes from methods that slip under the radar of some of their ‘customers’. Essentially, these companies are trading on apathy and a lack of attention because they make money from people who don’t realise, from month to month,...

When I wrote recently about the demise of HMV, a company that means a lot in our house, I mentioned that it reminded us that change is automatic but progress is not. That reminds me, again, then, that we should teach children to get comfortable with change....

I'm not one for new year's resolutions really as I try to do what I need to on an ongoing basis. But this year I have one major personal project that I intend to get a bit higher off the ground: my next book, The Inted Manifesto. I've done some work on it already but...

When my elder daughter Shiana got this message the other day... I suggested she stop for a moment and told her one of my golden rules online: I never click on or open attachments from people I’ve never heard of. Why? Because attachments can contain malware that can do...

The five biggest universal motivators, listed below, lie behind copywriting, advertising, marketing, graphic design,  product design and more. They are:   Beauty Safety Lust Fear Greed

How do children currently learn about the internet? By using it for pleasure But what is ‘it’ in this context? Only social media? By using it for homework But are they taught how to use Google using advanced search or tools, to show results only from the past year,...