I've been looking at the new design for the BBC News website and noticed, at the bottom of one of the pages, a hint that users will be able to integrate the site with their Facebook account. At the bottom… Continue Reading
Infographic: Social Media In Big Business | Digital Buzz Blog This new infographic compiles social data from the Fortune 100 global company index across the four major social platforms in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Blogs. (tags: facebook twitter statistics youtube blogging corporateblogging… Continue Reading
The Guardian's News Feed plugin for WordPress | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk (tags: guardian aggregation wordpress bloggingtechniques journalism journalismtechniques) FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. You… Continue Reading
Who Owns Social Media Within Large Organisations? Thoughts from Intel's social media strategist Ekaterina Walter…. (tags: socialmedia socialbusiness pr marketing advertising strategy business monitoring engagement) Durex Baby on Vimeo Video about a really clever durex iphone app (tags: iphone app… Continue Reading
New Statesman – Coca-Cola witnesses ‘phenomenal’ results with Twitter ads The US soft drinks company said the ads garnered about 86 million views in 24 hours. It also saw an "engagement rate" of six per cent, compared with the 0.02… Continue Reading
The evolving blogosphere: An empire gives way | The Economist When John Kelly of Morningside Analytics, a market-research firm, recently pored over data from websites in Indonesia he discovered a “vast field of dead blogs”. Numbering several thousand, they had… Continue Reading
Curating conversations | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we… Continue Reading
Media Nation » Names, faces and anonymous comments The end of anonymous comments on news sites? Well, no, but an interesting discussion of it… and a good suggestion: "One alternative, which I’ve mentioned before, is to use Facebook as a… Continue Reading
Last Thursday and Friday I was in Karlstad, Sweden for the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth, where I gave a presentation on how social media is changing the way we – and in particular young people –… Continue Reading
Social nets help teens navigate the real world « Iconowatch (tags: socialmedia teens research academicresearch statistics) Assisted Serendipity – Your Foursquare powered wingman Assisted Serendipity is a free service that notifies you a soon as the male/female ratio turns in… Continue Reading