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 [...]
ThinkVisibility 3: our favourite takeaways
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ThinkVisibility 3 took place more than a week ago. If you haven’t come across the ThinkVis conferences before, we recommend that you check them out. They cover “the items that usually get left out of the web process”: speakers have included top honchos at the BBC, Telegraph.co.uk and Yahoo! (as well as yours truly), and [...]
Corporate Blogging: The Suited & Booted Guide
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I was invited to speak about corporate blogging at ThinkVisibility: a one day web conference that took place in Leeds, UK in September 2009. My talk, The Suited & Booted Guide to Corporate Blogging, focused upon the reasons why so many business blogs, corporate blogs and CEO blogs are rubbish – and set out a manifesto for making them better.
Dairy Queen: A Social Media Case Study, To Go.
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It is all too easy, when you cast your eye over these lavish descriptions of big bucks companies and their tip top achievements online, to overlook the potential “learns” and benefits for companies of all sizes. If you read this particular case study in full – and I recommend that you do – you will find plenty to pore over. You will also note that Dairy Queen, despite its size, hasn’t been “doing” social media for long. Its corporate blog, for example, is just five months old at the time of writing.
Nee-Naw! It’s The Blog Police
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A legal ruling about bloggers’ rights to privacy was almost buried within the hullaballoo surrounding yesterday’s Digital Britain report. It’s a landmark judgment though – and if you blog anonymously or under an assumed name, it’s worth reading.
















