Okay so apparently I missed Privacy Awareness Week last week but I was interested to read Google’s post on how they’re empowering users with greater privacy controls over the storage and use of their data. Whether it’s delivering search results in the correct language or recommending the quickest route home, data can make Google products […]
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Need to get your social media sorted properly once and for all? Understanding what works best in each channel clearly matters. Check out this infographic I found over at localsphere [great site by the way if you haven’t checked it out already]. The infographic was drawn up by Matt Banner a digital expert who guest posts […]
Read moreRemember the good old days when an online company didn’t need a revenue model because simply being an entrepreneurial innovative online business was enough? I remember those days well because very early in my advertising career we wrote strategies for many of those businesses who never ever got it together thanks to the dot com […]
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I was trawling through my usual channels of content this morning and came across these posts on curation. Certainly a lot of conversation in the bloggersphere has been stimulated by the posting of the curator’s code. The code states that we should “keep the rabbit hole of the Internet open by honouring discovery”. Not only […]
Read moreA great post from WSJ via Yahoo on the changing nature of recruitment . . . Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” […]
Read moreOk so I was just reminded by our friends over at Design Milk to have another peek at the social media propaganda posters that Aaron Wood did a while ago. Delightfully cute and great stimulus for a workshop when you want to push around social media. Here they are. Enjoy.
Read moreI see the blogarati are up in arms about the above video. You can read some posts here and here. Surprise surprise there’s a lot of truth stretching and many of the facts in this video are misrepresented. Like so much of the social media hyperbole that floats around the blogasphere this is fairly sensationalist […]
Read moreQuite some time ago I received an email from a lovely account executive over at Shiny Red in London about a new social media campaign they’re developing for Reckitt Benckiser. As a part of said new campaign they have developed an integrated social media strategy to raise awareness of the global opportunities that exist at […]
Read moreFor those of you who don’t know Lynette Webb, the insights manager at Google – you can read the previous posts here and here. For those of you who do, here’s another doozy: “The idea for this slide came from a recent article in the NYT about how the internet is impacting literacy: “Clearly, reading […]
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