Next week, I’m moderating a panel discussion at The Social Customer conference in London on this very topic. Some smart people will be on that panel: Katy Howell (Managing Director, Immediate Future); Nick Sharples (Corporate Communications Consultant), Martin Hill-Wilson (Brainfood Consulting), Aaron Stewart (Product Marketing Manager, KANA Software) From the event description: In most organisations, [...]
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One of the startling metrics in a global survey on how technology businesses use social media is one that shows one in five technology industry executives – that’s 20 percent of those surveyed – saying that a job candidate’s social media profile has caused them not to hire that person. This metric reinforces the reality [...]
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Last year, I wrote and contributed a chapter to The Social Media MBA, a collaborative book published in the UK in January 2012 and in the US in February. I heard from the book’s editor, Christer Holloman, the other day with some interesting information on the book’s progress over the past three months: Sales are [...]
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The New York Times publishes an extraordinary op-ed today – the text of a resignation letter by Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It’s a sobering read that describes a morally-bankrupt organization and may well be definitive [...]
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A milestone has been reached in the evolution of factual reference information with news that probably the most famous of all general reference works in the English language, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will stop making the printed encyclopedia after 244 years of uninterrupted publishing. From the Britannica Blog: For 244 years, the thick volumes of the [...]
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If you have trouble finding wireless internet connectivity when in London – in particular, connectivity that’s free of financial payment – look no further for advice than James Cridland‘s comprehensive listing of where to get free wifi in London. James has done a terrific job in researching places – including coffee shops like Starbucks, restaurant [...]
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The search for a new way of defining what ‘public relations’ means has come to a conclusion after a lengthy public consultation process, a short list of three candidates from which to choose a winner, and the final public vote. The contest was organized and spearheaded by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and [...]
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I bought a copy of the first edition of the Sun on Sunday to see what the fuss is all about. A multiple first – it’s also the first time I’ve ever bought The Sun. It looks and feels like the Monday-Saturday paper – one of their goals, I would imagine, not to look different. [...]
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A clear and robust outlook on print media: [...] Despite recent digital successes and developments – with digital-only subscriptions topping 100,000 at the end of last year, 300,000 out of the Economist’s one million print subscribers using the Economist’s apps, and 70 per cent of subscribers expected to be reading the publication digitally in two [...]
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Published on February 19, 2012 · 4:52 pm UK
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Social Media Week took place last week in more than a dozen cities around the world including London. It’s only a few days since events concluded so I’ve yet to see any in-depth analysis of how it all went on a global perspective: how many people participated, what the key topics and trends were in [...]
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