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With many global brands such as Ford, Coke and Harvard Business School getting into it, blogging has gone quite mainstream, in the USA at least.
But the corporate world is now just waking up the world of microblogging, Twitter, Plurk and Spoink, if you like. So when Exxon Mobil jumped into [...]
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According to the Social Media Club blog there are nine get togethers organised before the end of the month. All of them are in American cities, plus there is one other taking place right here in the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the Third Thursday of each [...]
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I wonder what the folks behind Response Source think about Peter Shankman’s ‘Help A Reporter Out’ (HARO) service that is having a strong impact in the US PR industry. Basically Peter has devised a completely free-to-use service to link reporters with PRs and other sources. It started out as a Facebook page but soon outgrew [...]
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Jim Kukral believes so. He cites these reasons: ”
The a-list died because of social networking tools. It used to be that connecting with thousands of people could only be done if you had massive reach like an a-lister. However, with tools like Friendfeed and Twitter, anyone can reach out and “friend” up with [...]
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Today was the inaugural ThirdThursday meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club. A small, but enthusiastic group of bloggers and people interested in social networks came out to Paparazzi in Douglas. The idea of today’s lunch was to get a feel for how much interest there is in the subject. Discussion ranged from [...]
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It’s been a busy week, but I’ve managed to check out most of my fave blogs this week. Here are the posts Iiked the best.
1. On Pro Blogger, Darren Rowse explains why PR people are starting to contact bloggers in droves and how to handle them in Understanding PR people for fun and profit. Good [...]
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A friend from the UK came over for the TT practice weekend. We were enjoying the sunshine on Saturday, snapping pix of each other all day long.
But, she asked, if I were to upload them to Facebook could I please not tag her? The reason? She’d thrown a sickie at work and didn’t want her [...]
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Each month, I write up a round up of the previous month’s most popular posts on Strive Notes. Interestingly, this month only one of the fave five relates to PR…the rest are tech stories. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. Perhaps we’re not engaging in the PR conversation the way we should be? I’ll think [...]
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Last week my daughter pinged me on Facebook. ‘Check out LinkedIn, a kind of Facebook for business enthusiasts,’ she said.
It made me smile that she’s pegged me as a ‘business enthusiast’, but she had reminded me about the very first online social network I’d joined back in 2006. Back then I’d joined up and quickly [...]
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I tend to write quite often about Facebook, but it’s another social network that is actually the global leader in terms of users.
MySpace has more than 200 million registered users worldwide and has claimed to be the driving force behind many cultural phenomena such as Lily Allen, the Arctic Monkeys and Enter Shikari.
Also, [...]
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You might have decided that social networks like Facebook are not relevant to your company. You might think that you don’t know enough about it to get involved. But here’s a story I heard yesterday, which explains why every company needs to take social networks seriously.
A young intern from our office [...]
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I have been telling people for several months that Twitter will be the Facebook of 2008. And with each passing day I become more convinced.
My first Tech Talk column about Twitter was published last April when I said how boring it was, with constant tweets about what someone is eating and which socks [...]
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Jo’s off this week so I thought I’d do a top 5 while she’s away. Lots of great content but here are my faves:
1. Communications Overtones features an excellent case study on the ROI of a social media campaign for Seaworld.
2. Marketing Pilgrim covers a lawsuit that has landed Blockbuster in court over [...]
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We had a lot of fun in March getting ready for our revamp at Strive Notes. But we made time to develop a lot of great content too. Here’s the month’s most popular posts:
5. Nextgen Facebook, a Tech Talk column that looks at services for advertisers.
4. Google Apps: productivity boon, another Tech Talk column about [...]
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Professional vs Personal by Kerri Birtch grabbed my attention. She discusses something that has often crossed my mind. Kerri asks where do you draw the professional/ personal line when blogging?
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I have become increasingly aware when scanning the blogosphere that there is a very distinct divide between bloggers who ‘talk shop’, sometimes [...]
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Following reports of Facebook’s first dip yet in UK users, 5 per cent between December and January, one may be tempted to believe that it’s a fad that has run its course.
But this slight drop follows 17 months of consecutive growth. Facebook still has 8.5 million unique users and remains the most popular social networking [...]
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‘Web 2.0 - social media interaction ‘ the subject of the seminar I attended this lunch time, and not surprisingly, I was still focusing on some of the points and comments discussed when I sat down to write this post.
There was a real 50/50 split in the room of ‘those who do’ and those [...]
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It’s been a busy month at Strive PR with new offices, new team members and new clients. But still, we had a great blogging month too. Here’s the most popular posts for February:
5. February 7th: Jo’s top 5 in which she discusses the American election, Facebook and writers’ strike.
4. Trust storms for banks in which [...]
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I’ve been off jet setting again. This time however, I ditched the summer sun and headed for a new experience on the snowy slopes. Amazingly, I returned in one piece.
1. The first thing I know a lot of people have been following, whether it be consciously or not, is the U.S. presidential election. The largest [...]
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As some of you may have noticed, there was no blog post from me last week. However, I am pleased to say the sneezing and coughing has stopped and the pile of tissues that was my desk for most of last week has cleared. I am back to work, back to health and back to [...]
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Anyone who picks up a newspaper these days knows that the much-hyped social networking site Facebook is a lot of fun, addictive, a security risk and a productivity suck. Yes, it has been called all these things.
But, as its membership continues to grow, there is one important fact about Facebook that makes it increasingly important [...]
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Facebook has fast become a day-to-day work tool for me since joining Strive PR. Whilst many companies may be blocking it or fawning about its use within their workplace, I am becoming increasingly aware of its networking prowess in negating the need to spend time hovering over a sausage-on-a-stick at lengthy networking buffets.
Don’t get me [...]
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I am back from my holiday! All over far too quickly as usual, but what’s new?
Back to work….
1.Social Media 101: Five Lessons You Can Follow from Your Desk.
I choose this one because of its obvious benefits. Help with blogging, Delicious, RSS feeds and social networks all of which I have been using since starting at [...]
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Exciting week for me so far, a promotion! And with the new job title comes a slightly new blog. Something a little different with less about what I am doing and more about what I am reading.
Bare in mind this is new to me so I am keeping it fairly simple to start with. It’s [...]
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The Register is reporting that an Isle of Man-base company has lost a legal suit to keep the face-book.com domain.
“Facebook has wrestled control of the web address face-book.com away from an Isle of Man-based firm that operates it as a revenue-raising link dump.
Manx outfit YOLAPT registered the domain on 3 October 2004, several months after [...]
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Here’s a round up of the blog posts I enjoyed reading this week:
1. The social media meme is making the rounds again. Stephen Davies shares his faves from today and times past.
2. ..twl…doesn’t want his Mum on Facebook. Get over it. My Mom is. And I’m a Facebook friend to my kids. The world hasn’t [...]
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I can’t tell you how guilty I feel about neglecting Strive Notes so badly these past few weeks. Business and life seems to be getting in the way of blogging. This guilt was compounded this morning when I checked the stats to find that, despite the lack of new content, visits to the blog were [...]
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Crap! Yesterday I declared to the world how much fun Facebook is. Today I get proof that Facebook has jumped the shark. It is deeply uncool.
When the NY Times starts reporting on an aspect of ‘youth culture’ you know that it’s time has come and gone. Reporter Michelle Slatalla writes about her failed attempt to [...]
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