Cultural Conversations, social media and communication
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Social networks have afforded us considerable insight into human communication, why are we not always harnessing those insights offline?
Going native: Are hyperlocal blogs the future of regional news?
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With that in mind ‘hyperlocal’ has been a buzz word amongst journalism circles for the last ten years or so. But what does it mean and how is it changing the game?
Don’t put all your online eggs in one basket
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A story popped up this week that made me think hard about why it is important not to put all your eggs in one basket when it comes to online marketing.
An American-based Facebook fan page owner saw his page and its 47,000 fans disappear overnight. The page, called The Official Real Estate Referral Group, [...]
Liking as the new linking – What does it mean for online marketing?
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One of search engine giant Google’s priorities is to improve user satisfaction by quickly delivering the desired result for every search term entered – for every user, every time.
As part of that it is constantly looking at ways to index the entire internet. At the moment though there is one barrier to Google achieving that [...]
GUEST POST: Blogs just went real-time
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Pubsubhubbub.
No, this blog hasn’t been hacked; nor am I typing gibberish. Pubsubhubbub, or PuSH as it also helpfully known, is a new protocol which is moving blogs into real-time.
PuSH allows services that subscribe to a blog, mainly readers like Google Reader, to get new posts almost instantly. So when you hit the publish button your [...]
GUEST POST: Microsoft shares B2B social secrets…and moves beyond measurement
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Does social media have a part to play in business-to-business marketing?
Many observers say it doesn’t, and that social media marketing is only a useful marketing discipline for communicating with consumers. So are the naysayers right?
Are Twitter, Facebook et al useful platforms for communicating with businesses?
One of the major problems in forming a cogent argument for [...]
















