A few weeks ago, Ford launched an influencer outreach campaign in six European countries as part of a build-up to the European launch of its B-MAX car this summer. The car (a mini MPV) features pillar-less doors: there is no traditional central B-pillar which instead is integrated into the doors…
Content summary: Next FIR Live panel discusses influencer marketing on June 16; LikeMinds 2012 summary; News That Fits: the rise of visual communication; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on a changing media environment in North Korea and Edelman’s report on digital trends in Asia; Ragan promo; CEOs embark on a…
A year ago a law – known as Directive 2009/136/EC – came into effect throughout the European Union on the use of cookies on websites, requiring a website owner to seek visitors’ consent to cookies being saved to their computers when they visit a website (more on cookies). Implementing the…
Has it really been 10 months since the last FIR Live? It may have been a while, but when we decided to bring the real-time single-topic panel discussion back, we did it in a big way. We’ll be talking about influencer marketing – what’s hype, what’s legit, what works, what…
The Tom Wolfe novel from the 1980s that’s the title of this post – along with the movie of the same name – comes to my mind when reading media reports and online commentary and punditry this morning about the Facebook initial public offering last week and its immediate (current)…
Content summary: Michael Netzley in Singapore still without voice; FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast of Neville’s PRII conference presentation is up; next FIR Live on influence marketing set for June 16; Neville speaking at Like Minds conference in Exeter this week: discount price for FIR listeners; GaggleAmp update; News That…
Microsoft launched a “social search network” on Sunday – So.cl. Here’s how Microsoft describes it: So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people…
An interesting experiment gets its official launch this weekend when Monmouthpedia formally kicks off today. The Welsh town of Monmouth is the focus of this Wikipedia project that aims to create physical connections between places throughout the town, and events in its history, with respective content on Wikipedia. According to…
