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6th September 2010

The pros and cons of Ping

Another day, another social network. Last week, Apple announced its first foray into the social world with Ping. My first reaction was to pour scorn

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Danny Whatmough
4th September 2010

Twitter adding 300,000 users every day

With the launch this week of Ping, as well as the excitement around Facebook Places and Google Priority inbox, the news from Twitter that registered users

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Danny Whatmough
1st September 2010

5 reasons why Facebook Places will be big

I’ve been on holiday for the last two weeks so missed out on the official launch of Facebook Places. Now, as I read more about

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Danny Whatmough
23rd August 2010

Why Facebook Places isn’t for me

I’ve been reading about Facebook Places today.  Maybe I’m just a bit of a cynic when it comes to new social media initiatives, but I’m

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Louise Palmer
20th August 2010

Facebook is officially going Places

After many months of rumours, Facebook Places is the official name given to the social networking giant’s new location-based features.  Currently only live in the

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Max Tatton-Brown
20th August 2010

What’s black and white and read all over?

It struck me recently that with all the focus and interest on social media and digital PR, we are giving short shrift to an aspect

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Louise Palmer
18th August 2010

Why Wired is wrong about the web

This week, Wired put out a controversial article called “The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet” which has been making waves across social networks

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Max Tatton-Brown
18th August 2010

Foursquare steps up to privacy concerns

Popular location-sharing service Foursquare has just announced revisions to its privacy settings, no doubt to combat the risk of perception in articles like this from

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Max Tatton-Brown
13th August 2010

Me-mail marketing

A recent experience with Amazon.com reminded me just how effective, and (on the face of it) simple, email marketing can be. I went on Amazon.com

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Louise Palmer
11th August 2010

The power of a good story

We all love a good story. It’s one of the fundamentals of human nature on which a lot of marketing (and especially PR) is based.

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Danny Whatmough
10th August 2010

What can we all learn from Old Spice?

Over the last few weeks, one of the most unlikely brands has been on the lips of all social media enthusiasts: Old Spice. Yes, the

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Danny Whatmough
6th August 2010

To blog or not to blog…

So, recently I spotted a Facebook update from a friend saying: “thinking about the pros and cons of blogging”. It initiated a variety of comments,

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Louise Palmer