London is, suggests an article by the Telegraph's Emma Barnett, the social media capital of the World. Here's her evidence: 10% of traffic to Digg, the link recommendation service, comes from London London is the largest geographical network on Facebook… Continue Reading
Brandwatch: Blog Brandwatch on the audience for social media monitoring (tags: socialmedia monitoring marketing advertising) FT.com / Columnists / Michael Skapinker – Slipping out for a cigarette has its benefits Does smoking produce business benefits? “There’s no doubt in my… Continue Reading
A Nonprofit's Introduction to Google's Online Mapping Tools Nonprofits, equipped with large amounts of data to bolster their causes, often face the conundrum of how to present that data meaningfully yet succinctly to online audiences. (tags: mapping nonprofit outreach marketing… Continue Reading
Tinkering with the news « BuzzMachine This morning, Glam.com – the model of the new network model of media – extended its Twitter aggregator, Tinker.com, into news at Tinker.com/news. It’s very simple and that’s what makes it intriguing: headlines mixed… Continue Reading
This week I've had the pleasure of lecturing on the Master in Digital Marketing course at the IE Business School, which offers the #3 ranked MBA course in the World according to Forbes. It's a daunting task – these people… Continue Reading
The fiercest battles for a climate deal are fought online | Adam Vaughan | Environment | guardian.co.uk Using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, campaigners are using the web to harness people power on a big scale (tags: climatechange guardian wholewebascanvas)
Eid al-Fitr – the feast after the fast | Life and style | guardian.co.uk Interesting article, but check out the links to interactive social sections including the "world's only live cook along", blogs, flickr, facebook and more. Nice. (tags: guardian… Continue Reading
Overcoming Corporate Fear of Social Media – Advertising Age – Video (tags: fear socialmedia publicrelations marketing video socialbusinessdesign)
Berlin Project Alex's multimedia mobile reporting adventure continues, this time covering 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall… (tags: berlin journalisttraining cityuniversity) Internet libel review launched | Media | guardian.co.uk Laws described as "out of date" and "draconian"… Continue Reading
Telegraph community and Nieman Reports – Telegraph Blogs "I have an article in the latest edition of Nieman Reports, the journal of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. This edition looks at journalism and social media and I’ve… Continue Reading