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PR getting the social media budget

PR getting the social media budget

A recent survey found that over a quarter of corporate participants gave nearly complete control of their social media budget and strategy to PR agencies. So where does that leave us social media specialists?

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Social Gaming – An Industry Very Much On The Rise

Social Gaming – An Industry Very Much On The Rise

One area of social media that gets ignored by many is gaming but with more people playing Farmville than were on Twitter until recently it is a huge medium that could be targeted by brands and business. With that in mind we talked to Dylan Collins about the sector as a whole. Dylan is the [...]

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Some Facebook Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

Some Facebook Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

I’ve written a couple of times about these simple diagrams that have lots of great content on them and the guys over in onlinemba just sent me this neat little one with lots of numbers about Facebook that you may not have known. At least there are some good stats on this as well that [...]

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5 Typical Stereotypes About Bloggers And Blogs That Make No Sense

5 Typical Stereotypes About Bloggers And Blogs That Make No Sense

I spend a lot of time talking to clients who want to start engaging with bloggers or who are keen on setting up their own blogs and I hear the same questions over and over again week after week. Like many things nowadays blogging has been pigeon holed it is thought of in a very [...]

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Do you want to work for us in the UK?

Do you want to work for us in the UK?

An exciting opportunity to work for us out our London office – do you fit the bill??

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Irish Bar Doing Glee Recreation Is A Good Use Of Social Media For Small Business

Irish Bar Doing Glee Recreation Is A Good Use Of Social Media For Small Business

Over the last few months I have seen tons of large brands trying to do flash mobs in countries all over the world and for the large part they are pretty annoying and predictable but Leo Fogarty sent me a great example of a small Irish business using Glee and video in a really smart [...]

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Facebook Cover Of Time Magazine : A Defining Moment?

Facebook Cover Of Time Magazine : A Defining Moment?

Facebook is on the cover of Time magazine and this seems to be the culmination of a couple of pretty bad weeks for the worlds biggest social network with lots of concerns about privacy issues. The big question that I wanted to ask is where will Facebook go from here and how much of a watershed moment is this big privacy debate turning out to be int he bigger picture of the company…

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The business use of Twitter

The business use of Twitter

A recent survey into Twitter usage threw up some interesting results, particularly in the way that we use the site to communicate with brands. Twitter is increasingly seen as the tool for business, but there is still a staggering amount of brands that aren’t engaging in social media at all…

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New Tool Lets You Check Just How Private Your Facebook Profile Actually Is

New Tool Lets You Check Just How Private Your Facebook Profile Actually Is

Facebook has been having a lot of very public problems with it’s provacy settings in recent weeks with a huge public outcry around how much information is being made public. Rather than try and look in to argument about what is and isn’t right to share we thought we would show you a handy little tool that helps you find out what is on public display and just how good your own privacy settings are

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Job hunting just got awesome!

Job hunting just got awesome!

An excellent and creative example of a job hunter using a unique method to get right in front of his potential employers.

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Could There Ever Be Another Facebook?

Could There Ever Be Another Facebook?

I get asked quite often about the next big social network both here on the blog and by our clients. Will there be another Facebook? What’s the next Twitter? Is It Going to be Foursquare? Could Google win the social battle? The answer I pretty much always give is to forget about what could be [...]

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Oxford Research Agency Invests 500k In Simply Zesty

Oxford Research Agency Invests 500k In Simply Zesty

You have probably noticed that the blog has been a bit quieter than usual in the last couple of weeks and today we can reveal the reason why and that is because we have been off forming a great new partnership with The Oxford Research Agency in the UK that will help to take our [...]

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