It was when the Library of Congress in the US announced two years ago that it would archive every single tweet that people became serious about social media… and more to the point their data. The idea of all that data being saved made many people more reticent when posting their 140 characters on Twitter. [...]
800 jobs up for grabs at Shoreditch’s Silicon Milkroundabout May weekend
More than 105 start-ups and established brands such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Songkick and Mind Candy are joining 105 start-ups in London’s Shoreditch to offer 800 jobs to the brightest of UK talent. They will get together over the weekend of May 26/27th 2012 where 3,000 potential applicants will be introduced to a number of [...]
What can agencies learn from REAL people?
* This is a guest blog from Roger Warner, Managing Director of social media agency C&M Advertising legend Bill Bernbach and footballing philosophy legend Socrates figured out that there’s a lot of value to be had in asking real people real questions. We’ve been doing quite a lot of it lately at C&M via our [...]
Bloody hell, I’m finally part of bloody LinkedIn
This week I officially deleted the Facebook account for this (highly successful and influential etc) blog and decided to take the professional social network LinkedIn seriously. I’ve never liked LinkedIn, for some reason it reminds of me of a criminal record and unsuccessful job interviews so I have always treated it with contempt. I don’t [...]
DJs and musicians look beyond Facebook for Likes
* This is a guest blog by DJ, music producer and digital advertiser Tim Healey who tweets at @timhealey and whose official Facebook page is here It came to a head on holiday about a year ago. I was confronted by my wife. I had been having an affair. A casual relationship and furtive interaction [...]
Why Klout is a flawed model
In the 80s and early 90s, journalists on pop magazines (myself included) were driven by who was going to be attaining what position on next week’s charts. We would have an idea as the midweek positions came in. The current positions and the future positions helped us think about which pop stars to put on [...]
2011 – the year that social networks changed my life… again
Two more hours to go and then the screens in my life will flicker and I will pull the plug on them. No more laptops in bed, no more smartphone tomfoolery and hopefully not even Absolutely Fabulous on the telly. Furthermore no logging on to Twitter, Google +, Linkedin, Facebook and all those pesky networks [...]
