Category Archives: social media
Joining up the dots: Part 1
So, the global economy is experiencing a spot of bother.
Yet online advertising spend in the UK is on the up.
But, advertising itself looks to be pretty doomed these days. So doomed that it’s even starting to point fun at itself.
And over half of social media campaigns implemented by Fortune 1000 companies will fail.
Press releases [...]
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Blogging FAIL
One of the top rules of blogging: never delete posted content, just update it.
Jason Calcanis has dropped a clanger with his predictions that “50-80% of the venture-backed startups currently operating will shut down or go on life-support (i.e. 3-4 folks working on them) within the next 18 months” and to make matters worse – [...]
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Rise of the micro-agency continues
Today Stephen Davies (aka PRblogger.com) joins the growing list of former agency digital PR peeps to launch their own specialist agencies/consultancies with new venture 3WPR. I did the same in March this year with Shed and I haven’t looked back since. Yes, it’s a bit scary and strange at first but you soon get [...]
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Live Hurricane Gustav streams
UPDATE: I’ve taken the embedded players down – they automatically play and are a little annoying when you;re not actually looking at this post. Just follow the link to Ustream to check out the (now not live) feeds.
Wow. This sent shivers up my spine. Live streams of Hurricane Gustav. You can hear news reports [...]
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Vodafone *is* listening
Really chuffed today as Gemma (aka Gembo!) from Vodafone has responded to my previous lengthy rant/post about the recent crappy experience I’d had with Vodafone concerning using mobile broadbrand abroad.
She responded in the comments direct and emailed me too and to make sure that everyone who received the original via RSS gets to read what [...]
Also posted in human, mobile, thoughts 4 Comments
Using Vodafone 3G mobile broadband abroad? My £2,579 experience
Over the last few weeks I’ve been away a fair bit and because I run my own web-based business (Shed) I need to have fast, reliable broadband whilst I’m away. At the beginning of the year I went back to Vodafone (after leaving for T-Mobile a few years back after getting sick of the often [...]
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Get on with TechCrunch UK
Amongst all the PR bashing that’s going on right now, Mike Butcher over at Techcrunch UK (which unbelievably this blog was shortlisted alongside in the Computer Weekly Blog Awards web 2.0/business category which Mike deservedly won in the end) has posted this incredibly useful list of pointers for PR peeps to help increase their chances [...]
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UK bloggers and social media thoughts
(21/8 Quick update – in my haste to post I forgot to include the response from Shiny Media to the TechCrunch UK post referenced below that is well worth reading)
Wow. It’s all kicking off as the UK debates the success of (or lack of) UK blogs in making money and achieving high levels of traffic. [...]
A tool to help fix PR?
Pitchspace is featured today on the Guardian Tech podcast and also over on pda in more detail. Over to Jemima to explain:
The idea is to offer a platform for PRs and journalists. PRs seed stories and releases, and journalists can pick up the stories they like and use Pitchspace to organise the material for that [...]
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“My Goodness. This is insane!”