So it’s been a very long time since I blogged. The main reason is that I’ve been getting to grips with mobile advertising for the past nine months – long enough to have a baby, or two-fifths of a baby elephant – and aligning Adfonic’s communications channels. One key project has involved ‘classic’ social media: […]
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The old web is dying and I’m not sure I like the new one
BlogPulse has no pulse So I was playing around with dashboards and the like yesterday – as one does – and noticed that BlogPulse has disappeared. BlogPulse was not the greatest blog search engine around, but it was the only one offering anything like useable charts. So, given that Technorati charts disappeared years ago (although […]
Whither Social Mention?
Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is […]
Netvibes and me just don’t get along any more
I’ll be straight up: I like Netvibes. I’ve used it a lot in the past because I think it’s such a great solution to the problem of monitoring across the social mediascape. So it’s hurting me pretty badly now that it doesn’t work for me any more. That is, just me. As in, me personally. It’s […]
If you want to understand social media, do it when there’s a big TV event happening
We’re living in a strange world right now. We’re sort of at a tipping point between broadcast and broadcomment, where we can watch what millions of other people are watching, while at the same time see what they’re saying. This was brought home to me during the Prime Ministerial debates in the UK. I watched […]
Aggregated predictions: what really will happen with social media in 2011
Around Christmas-time I was foolish enough to list my social media predictions. They were a combination of ‘more of this, less of that, same of the other’, and you can still read it if you’re foolish enough to base an entire year that hasn’t happened on the ramblings of one poor gangrel creature. Fortunately I […]
2011 social media predictions
So while I have my blogging head on – hot off the news that Delicious is disappearing and Facebook has undergone yet another redesign – I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on the state of the social media nation for the coming year. It’s not all good. Here we go… Confidence will go down […]
Social media? I wouldn’t bother.
In the 18 months since I went freelance, I’ve spoken to a lot of people and worked with quite a few different companies, including a fair number of PR agencies. And what have I learned? That the state of social media is pretty much exactly as it was when I first became a social media […]
Social spume
- 12 Vintage Book Covers That May Have Predicted Internet MemesGo back 10 years, and who had even heard of Internet memes? These books — and their covers — certainly hadn't. Though they were around way before memes really took off online, they uncannily remind us of some of the web fads we know and love today SEE ALSO: Ermahgerd! The 12 Best Memes of 2012 We're not saying that these book covers predicted the f […]Brie Hiramine
- Instagram's Video Rumors and Other News You Need to KnowWelcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. A report in the Washington Post indicates Google wants the U.S. government to lift gag orders on its highly secretive Foreign Intelli […]Stan Schroeder
- 4 Ideas Google Rejected Before Project LoonGoogle's newest project is Loon, a campaign to spread Internet connectivity via a fleet of balloons (or 'loons for short). Remote areas and difficult terrain will have Wi-Fi access thanks to the 30 balloons Google launched last week, as well as the 20 more still awaiting their sendoff SEE ALSO: Top 28 Google Street View Sightings This got us thinki […]Bob Al-Greene
- DICK’s Sporting Goods Turns Social Data Into Actionable InsightsFor many retailers, collecting and analyzing the variety of data being generated across channels still is a constant struggle. Consumers’ increasing use of social networks to share perspectives and sentiments makes data retrieval and management even more challenging for these retailers. To better track, evaluate, and respond to social media feedback, DICK’s […]info@retailtouchpoints.com (Alicia Fiorletta)
- The Members of the Conclave Are the Measurement Mavens of the MonthBack in 2011, when a dozen people gathered at my home in Durham at something I dubbed “The Conclave,” all we knew was that there was a desperate need for standards for social media measurement and that a bunch of different organizations were trying to do something about it. Back then, we made those first early Conclave members our Mavens because they made th […]Queen of Measurement
- 8 Places to Score Free Fonts OnlineChoosing the right font for your Powerpoint presentation or design project is serious business — you want to be careful not to send the wrong message Luckily, there are thousands of fonts online you can download for free. Take a look at our favorite resources below SEE ALSO: 24 Famous Fonts You Can Download for Free Do you have any favorite websites for font […]Eric Larson
- In An Effort To Be Edgy, Vice Went Over The EdgeVice is known for tackling controversial topics. To accompany that approach, the magazine will also include imagery and fashion spreads that push the limits (oftentimes including women who are missing an article of clothing, like a shirt). It looks like Vice crossed and stepped all over the line of good taste with its latest spread, and has issued an apology […]Tonya Garcia
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