Archive | February, 2009

links for 2009-02-19

Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche – ReadWriteWeb Has Technorati Authority had its day? It always felt a bit too easy. My fave bit here is Google Reader recommendations, neat use of a new feature for finding blogs. As I always say, "if you think Google works, try this." (tags: forblog [...]

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links for 2009-02-18

Intel Social Media Guidelines Fairly straightforward and understandable. (tags: forblog bloggingpolicies) Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting – Cligs A bit.ly contender? (tags: forblog measurement metrics bit.ly bli.gs bookmarks crunching tinyurl tracking) Digital Influence Mapping Project: Your Social Media Score – ATL Very incisive question-driven approach to deciding on a company's 'readiness' [...]

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links for 2009-02-17

HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter Mashable comes up with yet another cool list – there's more to life than Tweetdeck. (tags: forblog microblogging twitter mashable) Spinvox Interesting website revamp. I need to dig around a bit more but it's certainly different. (tags: web design spinvox)

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links for 2009-02-12

Why Social Media in the Banking Sector? If anyone needs to adopt a sympathetic, open, human face right now, it’s banks. (tags: forblog banking socialmedia strategy banks gartner) Bankers’ apologies are ‘pathetic’ – PRWeek UK If anyone needs good PR, it’s banks. Hang about, didn’t I just say that? (tags: forblog banking fintech) tweetburner – [...]

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HowSociable can you go?

Influence – it’s a tough thing to measure, especially when it all depends on who’s linking to whom, and whether their behaviour has changed in any way. So if you don’t have access to several thousand pounds and a server farm to track this, you can get an idea of influence by studying ubiquity, that [...]

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Enviro.aero wins!

Just to blow my own trumpet a little, I found out today that a project I was heavily involved with while at Fleishman-Hillard has won a Flight Global Webbie award. The prize-winning site is called enviro.aero, which is an initiative of the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG). It seeks to redress the balance in the [...]

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links for 2009-02-11

Burson-Marsteller – FriendFeed Hmmm, very interesting – Burson Marsteller have a Friendfeed presence. Friendfeed could be the next thing on the horizon. (tags: forblog friendfeed bursonmarsteller bm) How Communications Professionals Should Approach Twitter « Blogging Me Blogging You Excellent – and timely – piece on when to use Twitter. (tags: forblog strategy twitter microblogging edlee [...]

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So Twitter is omnipresent all of a sudden – but not necessarily omnipotent

Everyone’s talking about it. No, not Eastenders. Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Twitter. I’ve been asked several times recently “What is it, exactly?”, and I can only say the usual: it’s a bit like texting, but imagine your text going onto the web, and if people find your texts interesting enough or they know [...]

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links for 2009-02-09

Ma.gnolia Ma.gnolia.com has lost all its data???? (tags: forblog) Top 45 Video Sharing Sites Where You Can Publish Your Video Not sure whether you could monitor them all, but you can have fun trying (tags: forblog marketing research video sharing) swiftcommunity.net Banks can do this too (tags: forblog fintec banking) Agencies should use social media [...]

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