I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make… Continue Reading
My presentation, which discusses the technique of going beyond social media monitoring by acknowledging, engaging and involving customers and audiences, from Online Information ’09: Beyond Social Media Monitoring View more presentations from Robin Hamman.
My Headshift colleague Eliot (@eliotf) pointed me towards an interesting presentation, Hiding Data, Content and Technology in Real World Games, shared by Chris Thorpe recently. I love how Chris describes layering a highly useful interface on top of play around… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500 times.] User generated… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social media services, comes word of the Twitter Times… Continue Reading
[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday] Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social… Continue Reading
Late last year, and early this year, I embarked on a social media training roadshow (for Headshift) that took me to the far corners of England, Scotland and Wales. My purpose was to show each of the finalist communities taking… Continue Reading
The Washington Post reports that the US Federal Trade Commission has issued new rules requiring bloggers to disclose that they've been paid to write a review or endorse a product: "Bloggers who offer endorsements must disclose any payments they have… Continue Reading
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
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