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Blogging
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The price of not blogging for three months (blame it on the end of financial year; Christmas; snow on the keyboard, whatever) is to have to sit and delete 52 pages of spam comments.
Still some of them are noble attempts at English as a foreign language. Read More
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Venerable UK journalistic institution, John Humphrys caused a kerfuffle around making his first tweet today - here on the BBC web site.
UK Govt got slammed (wrongly) for reportedly appointing a Twitter Tzar - here the story put to rights by Charles Arthur. Read More
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Interesting to see in this post from Carter Lusher that Jeremiah Owyang's estimable blog - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang - gets more traffic than the whole of Gartner.com. Well, actually for that matter, more than the whole of Gartner.com Read More
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Compared to a couple of years back, I have less and less enthusiasm for wasting time contributing to the noise around which type of agency is best placed to serve and support the growing social media arena.
The latest example is this Read More
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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
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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
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eMarketer lifts some interesting data from TNS on the online activities of UK internet users in an article on Advertising on UK Social Networks.
As ever data throws up some curiousities - 76% have used online banking, but only 16% have viewed, or contributed Read More
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Well, not really.
In fact, it doesn't review Apple's corporate blog, or any blogs by Apple employees, because there isn't a corporate blog at Apple or any legit employee blogs. A point discussed by Joe Wilcox here at AppleWatch.
Joe contrasts Read More
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is well, viral.
As opposed to the blatantly planned, stage managed and marketed that shouts, I'M VIRAL, VIRAL ME.
OK, there has to be some plan from either a random spotty student or by Global MegaCorp Inc's agency, or no virals would ever get Read More
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Much discussion about the role of Twitter in reporting on the recent Mumbai attacks.
Forbes.com reports: Mumbai: Twitter's Moment
Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC puts some perspective around the more outrageous claims for Twitter in Twitter - the Mumbai Read More
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I signed up to Mr Tweet.
The strength of Mr Tweet is also its weakness. Mr Tweet analyses who you follow via Twitter, and then suggests other people to follow, based upon who the people that you follow, are in turn following themselves. If you follow Read More
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Pete wrote this post on the Top Ten Most Irritating Phrases. What struck me was that this Telegraph article accumulated 2,484 comments, more than I'll get in a lifetime. Whick proves irritating phrases rattle cages.
So what other posts are in the list Read More
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It would appear National Australia Bank (NAB) stuck a toe in the waters of social media, and liked it so much they jumped right in.
But then jumped out right again, very shortly afterwards. Story here.
More salutary lessons on how large organizations Read More
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There have been some interesting, vaguely connected, posts this week contributing to the discussion around where we are with the adoption of social media, particularly among larger or more conservative organizations.
A bit too much to Read More
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Fascinating guest post from one of the founders of Shiny Media on TechCrunch UK. The post and the ensuing comments give a useful tour of many of the participants of the UK blogging scene (or should that be 'industry', ah, there's the rub), their issues Read More
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