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Communication

Business and communication intelligence firm Cision updated their list yesterday of the top 10 PR blogs in the UK, which now looks like this:

Neville Hobson
PR Media Blog
Drew B’s take on tech PR
The Way of the Web
Spinwatch
PR Studies
Mediations
Northern PR
Stuart Bruce – A PR Guy’s Musings
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Twitter Flickr

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:28 am (UK)
in: Communication, Social Media, Software, Twitter, Web

A new feature has come to Flickr, the photo-sharing service, that means you can post notifications and other announcements about your photos to your Twitter account from Flickr itself.

The new feature is simple to set up and works well, as a test tweet I did indicates.
Once set up, you can click on a ‘Blog [...]

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Mining the MJ community

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 12:42 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Marketing, Online Media, Society, Trends, Web

This is going to be huge.
The official Michael Jackson website invites its visitors to share their MJ memories in classic blog comment form. As of writing there are 354 044 memories “from Michael Jackson fans worldwide”, and growing naturally. Meanwhile, the Facebook page now clocks in 2 414 413 fans. On June 26, [...]

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Google just launched the YouTube Reporters Center.
Ever captured a natural disaster or a crime on your cell-phone camera? Filmed a political rally or protest, and then interviewed the participants afterward? Produced a story about a local issue in your community? If you’ve done any of these things or aspire to, then you’re part of [...]

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Pete Cashmore of internet news site Mashable asks:
Where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you [...]

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An extremely enjoyable day is how I’d sum up my overall thoughts about TweetCamp London 09 which took place yesterday, June 27, in Richmond.
I reckon there were well over 100 people at this event, superbly organized by Farhan Rehman, Desigan Chinniah and Jon Bishop plus a host of contributor-organizers (the ones wearing dark blue [...]

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I’m going to be at TweetCamp London 09 in Richmond tomorrow, June 27.
In common with quite a few others, I want to see what an unconference that focuses on the cross-over of relationships developed primarily on Twitter into the real world is like, what I’ll learn and what I can provide for others who [...]

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It’s a hot topic, it involves a product many people hate, and it’s from a company that many love to hate.
It’s about Outlook, the ubiquitous Windows application from Microsoft for email, contacts, calendar, etc, a new version of which is coming next year.
Therein lie the issues, say the people behind Fixoutlook.org, centered on Microsoft’s [...]

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If you’re a Wimbledon fan and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, and you want to keep up with what’s happening at this year’s tennis championship no matter where you happen to be, there’s a treat in store for you.
Just head over to the App Store and install the Wimbledon iPhone Application.
It’s free [...]

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What is a browser?

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 12:43 pm (UK)
in: Communication, Humour, Society, Software

Scott from Google went out on the streets of New York and asked people if they know what a browser is.
The results may or may not surprise you. What they’ll indicate is how those of us embedded with tech, as it were, use common terms like ‘browser’ which many people still simply don’t understand.
Maybe that’s [...]

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