Katie Chappelle is the digital media manager at Warwick Emanuel PR & Film in Cardiff. She is a former broadcast journalist and worked for various radio stations in Wales and London before moving into PR. Katie heads up Warwick Emanuel’s Digital Media department, which produces films and podcasts for clients. She regularly uses social networking and blogs for PR opportunities and tries not to spend too much time Tweeting. She regularly contributes to her firm’s blog at www.wepr.co.uk/blog.

Make do and mend this Christmas

Whether it’s home baking, making your own tree decorations or attending a full ‘make do and mend’ course, more and more people seem to be shunning ready-made and shop-bought and spending time creating their own Christmas

Location, location, frustration?

The use of location settings on social networking websites and in apps is a curse, a blessing – and a danger

Shakespeare al fresco

Outdoor performance is a part of the British summer. But instead of Muse at Glastonbury, how about the Bard at Cardiff Castle?

A new World Cup winner

Football junkies take heart – the World Cup has arrived online. The rest of you – despair, as our latest Sixth Columnist Katie Chappelle outlines the total saturation to come

I am woman, hear me tweet

Following on from International Women’s Day, one place where women’s equality is pretty evident is here online, where 55% of mobile social networkers are of the fairer sex. With the explosion of use in social networking, blogging, android and smartphones and their associated apps, the female market cannot be ignored

The augmented reality revolution has arrived

From the humble mobile phone to digital contact lenses and headsets, technology is being built with augmented reality in mind. So what is AR all about? And, more importantly, how can it improve our lives?

Social networking could damage your career

Business networking site LinkedIn has teamed up with Twitter, enabling users to cross-post their status updates. But how much does this blur the lines of our work and social lives? And with more employers using social media for recruitment, could you be damaging your chances of progressing on the career ladder?

All work and no play

Research shows that Twitter has now surpassed blogging as the social media of choice for America’s top 100 companies. So, is it time for businesses in the UK to get on board and embrace the platform?