Content is king but so is the delivery platform

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One of the benefits of being a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is the bi-monthly magazine, CW. Every other month, the printed publication originally known as Communication World would come through your letterbox filled with useful and highly-readable content that offered knowledge, insight, interviews, case studies, how-to features and a host [...]

Your gleeful inner child: a marketing winner for Evian

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Evian, the premium bottled-water brand of French foods group Danone, has enjoyed some success in recent years for its imaginative and virally-attractive online video campaigns centred around babies. Not ordinary babies, though – these are dancing babies and roller-skating babies, all behaving in their body movements and expressions like miniature grown-ups. From a brand marketing [...]

The sound of an F-type

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Intriguing piece of story-telling in this short (13 minutes) film “Desire” for Jaguar and its new just-launched F-type sports car, made by Ridley Scott, starring Damian Lewis and Shannyn Sossamon with music by Lana Del Rey. Best viewed in 1080p HD at full screen to get the maximum impact from the beautiful photography. Not sure about the [...]

Hanging out at LeWeb London in June 2013

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Last year at both LeWeb conferences in London and Paris,  I joined in live discussions for some of the sessions and with presenters via Google Hangout On Air. Being parachuted-in this way not only let me be part of things from afar but also showed what is possible today to expand an event’s horizons dramatically [...]

Unfiltered social reporting from Boston

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Hot on the heels of the Boston marathon bombings last weekend comes another frightening event in the United States, this time a fatal shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in neighbouring Cambridge late on Thursday night US time. As I write this, it’s still very much a breaking news story with sketchy [...]

How to secure your WordPress site against hacker attacks

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One of the easiest content management systems to set up and use is WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world, powering more than 60 million websites worldwide. That fact may be a key reason why WordPress is in the news right now as the subject of a large-scale attack from a huge number [...]

Tips and tricks that make Twitter useful to your business

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If you’re new to considering Twitter as a communication tool for business purposes – or even if you’re pretty experienced with it – it will be worthwhile taking a look at the re-launched Twitter for Business website. The content in and focus of this update – with a new look and structure – is very [...]

Can Google Hangouts replace press conferences?

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Faced with the problem of how to reconcile arranging a press conference for a VIP with the lack of a hard news story, independent communications consultancy Keene Communications adopted a different approach, one that might interest you. Guest writer Michael White explains. This is a story of why we chose to replace a press conference [...]

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