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4th August 2010

Sustainable Social Media

If one thing has become clear in the last few weeks, it’s that everyone loves the Old Spice guy.  He sprung out of nowhere, posted

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Max Tatton-Brown
3rd August 2010

Forget Foursquare; how marketers are obsessed by shiny new things

Yesterday, I blogged about our fear of change. Today, I want to talk about an issue that may, at first, seem contradictory. Because, while the

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Danny Whatmough
2nd August 2010

Advertising, scmadvertising

So IBM researchers are working on developing ‘Minority Report’ style advertising. This is all well and good, I suppose you’ve got have something to do

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putsimply
2nd August 2010

Why are we all so scared of change?

This is a question I’ve been asking on a number of occasions over the last few weeks and, each time, technology has been at the

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Danny Whatmough
29th July 2010

Social Media doesn’t need to be complicated to work

To the uninitiated, managing a public space to share information, engage with customers and increase brand recognition could sound incredibly complicated - or even worse, expensive!

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Lori Foster
27th July 2010

The three segments of social media influencer

Those of you that have read Forrester’s book Groundswell will recognise the process of splitting social media users into different segments depending on their activities.

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Danny Whatmough
26th July 2010

Another one bites the dust: Data Strategy

The woes for of the trade publishing world continue today with Data Strategy the latest publication to bite the dust. The marketing title, edited by

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Danny Whatmough
26th July 2010

Inappropriate whine…

I saw something in a pub that really upset me over the weekend. This is what it was. Wine on a tap? Wine. On. A

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putsimply
23rd July 2010

Getting grass-roots support for social media involvement

We’ve been running a series of company-wide social media training sessions for a client of ours this week and it’s been amazing to see how

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Danny Whatmough
22nd July 2010

Are you one of Facebook’s (unhappy) 500 million users?

I thought twice about publishing a post about Facebook’s 500 millionth user. On the one hand, it’s a landmark moment for the social media world, so I

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Danny Whatmough
22nd July 2010

Are you out there?

Or are you stuck inside updating your profile on Facebook? As half the population of the UK are signed up users, according to statistics out

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putsimply
16th July 2010

Should PRs just ignore The Times?

I was quoted in an article in PR Week today, responding to a survey the publication ran looking at reactions to The Times paywall. The

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Danny Whatmough