* This is a guest post from Bryan Tookey, UK MD of social media monitoring company Brandwatch who also tweets here What do you get when you cross classic strategy frameworks with a start-up? Paralysing indecision. This rather depressing conclusion came to me two years into my role as the COO of our company, a [...]
Brands need 7,500 Tweets to rank in the Top Five results on search engines
A new study has revealed, unsurprisingly perhaps, that lots of tweets means that brands rank higher in search engines. Conducted using data from digital and search agency Branded3’s Twitter petition site, Twitition.com, and Google ranking data, the study analysed a sample of the site’s 1.4 million Twitter followers, 7.6 million signatures across 198,000 ‘Twititions’. According [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Six easy steps to set up a UK business – Part Six
So, this six-step guide to setting up your own business has come to an end and I hope it’s proved useful to those of you thinking of jumping into the entrepreneurial breach. The feedback to date has been extremely positive and it seems there are a large number of people out there who have been [...]
Steve Jobs couldn’t light an iPad candle to Bob Dylan
The dust has settled, the iPad candles have tapered out and a-man-who-employed-more-creative-people-to-put-his-ideas-into-action has gone away; away to a most uncertain fate. Yes, Steve Jobs is dead. He once called death a great invention. Hopefully he is still of that view, but none of us know. I searched in vain for an ironic tribute in UK [...]
