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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

If you want to understand social media, do it when there’s a big TV event happening

by on February 14, 2011 in measurement, monitoring, reputationmanagement, research, search, socialmedia, technology, trends, Twitter, visualisation

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 [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

If you don’t want gurus then don’t call them gurus!

by on January 26, 2011 in disciplines, personal, socialmedia, technology

A recent post by Mark Ragan reminded me of a post I’ve had swirling around in my brain recently. His post is pretty bang on the money – of course he’s right that, as a general principle, we shouldn’t use jargon. But who’s ‘we’? Who are ‘them’? What are I? Well apparently I’m a guru. [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

Aggregated predictions: what really will happen with social media in 2011

by on January 24, 2011 in bloggers, disciplines, marketing, measurement, microblogging, monitoring, PR, reputationmanagement, research, search, socialmedia, socialnetworks, socialvideo, strategy, trends, Twitter

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 [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a digital and social media strategist who helps clients win business, win awards and talk to people through digital and social media strategy. He has been helping people to communicate, online and offline, for over fifteen years.

2011 social media predictions

by on December 17, 2010 in brands, cloudcomputing, copywriting, disciplines, freelance, marketing, monitoring, personal, PR, research, socialmedia, strategy, trends

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 [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a digital and social media strategist who helps clients win business, win awards and talk to people through digital and social media strategy. He has been helping people to communicate, online and offline, for over fifteen years.

The Universal Process™. Or: the Gartner Hype Cycle of Life

by on November 10, 2010 in copywriting, disciplines, musictechnology, personal, socialmedia, socialmusic, socialnetworks, strategy, stuff

Life. Work. Birth. Death. And everything in between. Read on. I wrote some time ago about the process of writing. Unless I’m writing for myself – that is, when I had time for ‘recreational writing’, or even blogging for that matter – I tend to procrastinate. I sit in front of the monitor surrounded by [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a digital and social media strategist who helps clients win business, win awards and talk to people through digital and social media strategy. He has been helping people to communicate, online and offline, for over fifteen years.

Social media marketing: it’s not about you

by on November 1, 2010 in marketing, socialmedia

Marketing isn’t about you. It’s about your audiences. But it’s surprising how often people get this the wrong way around. These phrases crop up fairly often: ” No one will be talking about us online” “I really like sites with lots of animation on them” “I don’t see why anyone would want to follow X” [...]

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Social media? I wouldn’t bother.

by on October 12, 2010 in advertising, blogging, freelance, marketing, measurement, monitoring, PR, reputationmanagement, socialmedia, socialnetworks, strategy, Twitter

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 [...]

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Social media obeys physics too

by on May 24, 2010 in marketing, socialmedia

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Time and again I hear this: 1. What will we get as a ROI on social media? 2. We don’t have any time/resource/money to spend on it. Now, this is obviously not a sustainable position to take! You won’t get any return if you don’t allocate any resource. Social media [...]

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Everyone needs to get out more

by on May 19, 2010 in advertising, bloggers, copywriting, disciplines, PR, socialmedia, Twitter

Estimated reading time: 2.5 minutes So today is Wednesday which means I write about… hang on, let me look it up… tum te tum te tum… ah yes, here it is. Social media! Right. Over the past month, in the UK, we’ve been subjected to the constant advances of politicians throughout the election. Thankfully it’s [...]

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