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Twitter and Facebook part of Costa Rica election

Posted on February 8, 2010 at 7:52 am (UK)
in: Communication, Costa Rica, Politics, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Twitter, Web

Electing a woman to be your head of state isn’t that big a deal these days.
The latest country to join a long list of states with women leaders is Costa Rica: in the presidential election conducted yesterday, the winner by a comfortable margin is Laura Chinchilla Miranda, the first woman to become head of [...]

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Best-practice predictions for social software

Posted on February 3, 2010 at 8:53 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Software, Technology, Trends, Workplace

One of the challenging aspects of understanding the role of social media in the communication mix is how it may develop in future in organizational use.
How will a tool like Twitter evolve, for instance? What will Facebook,LinkedIn, Xing and other online social networking services look like in five years time? And what about lifestreaming [...]

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Recruiters really care about your online reputation even if you don’t

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 8:37 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Europe, Online Media, Professional Development, Reputation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web, Workplace

Did you know that Thursday January 28 was Data Privacy Day, an annual event celebrated in the United States, Canada, the UK and 26 other European countries?
No, I didn’t either. Its aim is to raise awareness for consumers around privacy issues.
One of the sponsors of Data Privacy Day is Microsoft who commissioned research in [...]

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A memorable Dublin experience

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 7:51 am (UK)
in: Communication, Events, Experiences, Presentations, Professional Development, Social Media, Social Networks

Last week’s trip to Dublin was a terrific experience.
The workshop on social media and public relations I ran for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland – formally known as ‘New Media for Seasoned Professionals’ – on Thursday was a full day of listening and learning for everyone including me.
One thing I thoroughly enjoy, and [...]

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Procter and Gamble embraces Facebook

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 8:21 am (UK)
in: Advertising, Business, Communication, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Web

When the world’s biggest marketing firm, Procter & Gamble, says it’s making a huge marketing move with a massive online presence, you really need to sit and up and pay close attention.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Hornick reports from a P&G presentation to the investment community last weekend that an explicit goal for 2010 [...]

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A social conversation in Dublin

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 11:47 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Events, Presentations, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks

I’ll be in Dublin later this week, leading “New media for seasoned professionals,” a workshop for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland on social media and PR, on Thursday. This will be the third one I’ve done for the PRII during the past few years.
It’s always a great pleasure visiting Ireland. Over the years, [...]

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The overwhelming appeal of self-creating your own iPhone app (and soon for Android)

Posted on January 25, 2010 at 8:04 am (UK)
in: Communication, Experimenting, For Immediate Release, Innovation, Podcasting, Social Media, Software, Web, Workplace

When I heard about AppMakr last week, a website that lets you create your own iPhone app for $199, I thought, wow! This is getting very affordable – anyone can now create an iPhone app in literally a few clicks, at a relatively low cost.
But then I heard about iSites – a website where [...]

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Freedom of speech: defining ‘social’

Posted on January 23, 2010 at 8:21 am (UK)
in: Communication, Online Media, Presentations, Social Media, Society, Uncategorized, Web

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Earlier this week, I recorded a video commentary for the word of the day at Wordia.com, the visual dictionary, in which I defined what the word ‘social’ means to me.
Here’s a clue on how I defined it with this definition of ‘social’ as an adjective from the Collins online dictionary: “of, relating to, or characteristic [...]

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Campaign creativity in Latin America

Posted on January 19, 2010 at 8:07 am (UK)
in: Advertising, Business, Communication, Innovation, Marketing, Public Relations

If Latin America is a business area of interest to you, a report by AdAge.com on marketing success stories in Latin America makes interesting reading.
The report outlines ten companies that have done well in 2009 – nine of them in Latin America and one in Spain – which illustrates good things are going on [...]

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Meet the ridiculous David Cameron

Posted on January 17, 2010 at 9:42 am (UK)
in: Advertising, Communication, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Society, Web

I bet that Conservative Party communication planners didn’t imagine that the result of the billboards of David Cameron plastering poster sites up and down the country this week (click the thumbnail for the full image) is the soft backlash that has taken place.
Just about the only comment you’ll find online is ridicule over the [...]

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