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How to be a magazine publisher with Flipboard

In the summer of 2010, a new visual way of consuming news stories was launched for iOS mobile devices – especially the iPad which had been released a few months earlier – in the form of Flipboard, an aggregator app that brought together content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites and other websites, and presented it in magazine format. This highly-appealing visual communication tool became popular very quickly on iPads and iPhones, enabling users to “flip” through the…

Social media stars breaching rules on promoting brands, watchdog says

The Guardian reports on a rise in complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK advertising regulator, who says ‘influencers’ on social media sites such as Instagram and Twitter fail to declare that they are being paid to publicise products. The newspaper defines ‘influencers’ thus: Social media celebrities who have large and engaged followings online. They get paid money to publicise products and can command tens of thousands for one post. This is about disclosure where the influencer publicising a…

#Hashtag10: the best hashtag fails in a decade

How did we manage before Twitter? is a question I often hear, asked by a range of different people from casual personal users to immersed influence marketers. I’ve found it a great tool over the past decade to help me connect with others, share thoughts and opinions, bookmark ideas and join up the dots in conversations. It’s that latter aspect that is especially useful thanks to the hashtag, a device created by Chris Messina that came to the fore a…

Guardian to launch new platform to streamline access to web content

Theguardian.com will provide one destination for UK, mobile, US and Australian sites as monthly digital browsers hits 80m

PCC seeks to regulate press Twitter feeds

Watchdog to consult on how tweets can be brought under its remit, asking each newspaper to draw up a ‘Twitter policy’