We are a social media agency and I thought it was my duty to have a little play around with Myspace after their big re-brand this week and see what it now had to offer. In case you missed it they have a new logo and they have essentially moved away from being a social [...]
We all spend so much time online so I wanted to turn full circle and compile a list of the 11 best books about social media that everybody involved or interested in the industry should read. These are all books that I’ve read over the last 2 years and in one way or another have shaped the way I think about the industry…
As more and more people get in to business blogging I thought it was about time we looked at some of the goals and targets that you can set yourself to make sure you are getting the most out of your efforts. Using our own blog as an example I wanted to share the 10 areas we focus on in terms of driving business leads through the blog…
One thing that the web does is it allows us to become far more productive and use our time better (some would say we also waste lots of time on social media) and with that in mind I wanted to share 10 tools that I use on a daily basis to increase productivity. Some are free, some freemium and all will drastically improve your productivity…
We all live in an era now where social media has become a primary way of communicating and that is no different in the area of romance. Only a few years ago using online to find love would have had certain stigmas attached but those days are gone and these great examples show just how much hand in hand social media are…
There is still always a lot of talk about social media and does it actually help to drive sales. The answer is that in many cases it doesn’t directly and but there are also lots of cases where we are starting to see social drive real tangible results. A clear example of this is Eventbrite [...]
You may recognize the “tell a friend” widget that appears on many sites around the world and now the makers of that widget have released some interesting data that shows social media sharing trends in 2010. There is some interesting data here and all well presented with the stand out figures for me being the [...]
Andrew Marr recently carried out a verbal attack against bloggers, levelling some pretty harsh words at the blogging masses. Thankfully, there has been some comment within the media industry that defends bloggers, but is there any validity in his argument and is he right about citizen journalism being late night spewing?
With more and more people embracing Twitter I thought it was time to have a look at their DM feature and see just how secure it was. There has been lots of chatter in the tech community about this flaw for the last month but the average Twitter user has no idea that all their supposedly private DM messages could easily be exposed…
Out of all the communities who have joined Twitter I would say it is journalists who have embraced it with the greatest vigor. Before Twitter came along I would have known a couple of journalists through my own real world network but I now follow over a hundred on Twitter and see their thoughts and [...]
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