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January 2008 - Posts
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When MP Derek Conway was outed yesterday by the Conservative party for apparently very nominally 'employing' his sons at the public's expense, journalists were faced with the question of where to look for 'colour' to illustrate the story? Read More
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My friend Eric once described Facebook as a platform for serving up Scrabulous games. Beyond that, it offers nothing of interest to him.
I have to wonder how many Erics there are out there, and how many of them would wander away from Facebook if Scrabulous were Read More
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BusinessWeek tells us that Davos participants will soon have their own private social network, to be called WELCOM.
According to Jennifer Schenker's report:
The 2,500 people invited to the conference each year will form the core of WELCOM Read More
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At last night's BIMA dinner I met Jamie Galloway, Head of Digital Media at the Central Office of Information (COI). For anyone, like me, who isn't immersed in the public sector, in simple terms the COI acts as a procurement clearing house and trusted Read More
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It seems these days corporate crises are played out in full view of the public.
The FT Alphaville team live blogged SocGen's conf call this morning - the one in which the management 'explain' where the euro 5bn went.
I've never really got Read More
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I normally spend quite a bit of my time travelling and this week was my first in Seattle of this year.
Today I spent most of the day with a client in Bellevue and this was the view from their desk.
I don't know how much work I would get done looking Read More
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This is how it's done.
At 7:30 AM Cory Doctorow writes a post on BoingBoing about a reader's difficulty with Amazon's MP3 downloads, and the bewildering response from customer service.
At 3:17 PM, an Amazon employee on the MP3 development team leaves Read More
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Strangely, one of our most popular posts ever was this story from Wade on Sun taking a swipe at Microsoft on their home turf by advertising OpenOffice on the local Seattle bus routes (see the number of angry comments the Read More
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Speaking of Our Moment Being Now, my government is calling me to service on behalf of the Library of Congress. CNET reports that it has put 3,000 public-domain photos on Flickr, and is relying on crowdsourcing to get them all categorized: users are encouraged Read More
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Now will you just look at this campaign poster? It's a thing of beauty.
The candidate is turning away from the shadows and looking directly toward the light and warmth of the sun. He's dressed all in white, but not in a way that makes it look like Read More
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Supportive of the Scouts for helping out on the UK skills shortage by launching a new activity badge for PR, I found out they also have them for Creativity and IT (below), which goes some way to fixing our recruitment needs.
And surely these Read More
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Following from last night's post - today, Tom Murphy posts here on: what's the value of Twitter? And has some more links looking into the same question.
Coincidentally, after making the original post last night, I was driving home and listening to an Read More
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Richard Holway has a recent post: Are Twitters Twits? I wouldn't go that far - if it works for others great - but from a personal use perspective, Twitter hasn't really grafted itself to my lifestyle:workstyle yet.
Why is that? These are the reasons, Read More
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I've just come across the BBC's new beta site which is really cool.
It allows you to customise what news sections you see and move them around how you like.
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Jeff Jarvis has a great post on the new metrics now available to track the progress of the US presidential race, from Twitter followers to odds quoted by a bookmaker. Some of these methods wouldn't translate for a brand or a business but its is amazing Read More
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It is my daughter's eighth birthday soon, I could run it by her... but I reckon she'll stick with a Hamster.
Gizmodo unearthed the story. Read More
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This is a cool 2.0 style tool to add into any communications or customer reference program.
One aspect of our work within the area of customer advocacy is helping clients to communicate their positive customer stories to other customers, employees Read More
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After I posted about Twitter-connected citizens posting updates on the Iowa caucus, I talked about the event online (using Twitter, natch) with James Geluso, city goverment reporter at the Bakersfield Californian. I asked James if he'd write a guest post for Read More
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Not my first of 2008.
And that's because one of my New Year resolutions was not to post on the prickly subject of 'PR' in 2008 - let's all move on - but then I came across this email footer...
Are you the person we sent Read More
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On December 19th, Patrick Ruffini of techPresident asked his readers, "Can the Internet do a better job at covering election night than the media?" He proposed an experiment in election coverage:
"If you're caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign Read More
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