February 2009 - Posts

• Social media demographics (sort of)

  On the day that Britain's PR industry disappeared into it's own PR Week inspired Twitter maelstrom, some Social media demographics from Brainz, sort of. Here's the view on Twitter. There is truth in their irony. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:19 PM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Social

• Forrester: social media inclinations of B2B buyers

  The Forrester posse is full of their new report on B2B buyers use of social media. Josh Bernoff says: "If you're a B2B marketer and you're not using social technologies in your marketing, this report means you're late." "This is your chance to stand Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:04 AM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, Social

• The inside out agency

  Fascinating discussion between Jeff Jarvis and Richard Edelman debating the future of PR agencies and whether the traditional agency approach is sustainable in a social media enabled environment. Jeff floats the concept of The Inside Out Agency in Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:59 AM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, PR

• The Credit Crisis explained

  I've always been a sucker for good information design and this is a great example, an animated explanation of the credit crisis. The crisisofcredit.com is by Jonathan Jarvis, a student in media design in Pasadena. In fact, the website is currently down Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:07 PM by Steve | 0 Comments

• The good news about marketing budgets

  In this post Ben McConnell finds the good news in the bad news about marketing budgets. We agree with Ben. Certainly the areas of our business that are very relevant to the problems faced by our customers: virtual events to get around travel freezes; Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:46 AM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Random

• When social media is a little too public

  Twitter is full of grumpy journos often (rightly or wrongly) blasting PR people for their lack of skills and insensitivity to their needs. Here's a cautionary tale - National Post Reporter has Total Twitter Meltdown - on what it looks like when Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:03 AM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 virtual launch

  Another virtual launch event held for Microsoft, here for OCS R2 - that's Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2.0. Joe Wilcox at eWeek's Microsoft Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:40 PM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Technology

• Snow gets UK all of a Twitter

  Nothing like a spot of snow to get people Twittering, Flickring and Mashing. On the other hand Belle (see below) and I are too busy scouring the Chiltern hedgerows looking for stranded commuters to write it up, so take a look at Ben Marsh's nifty Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted Monday, February 02, 2009 11:52 AM by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Social