A week after its first reading, the government’s new Digital Economy Bill is proving as popular as a burning orphanage with Birmingham’s digital community.
But the government was never going to win on this one.
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UK Election 2010 – Social media success is about substance, not style
March 4th, 2010Category: Home, Online PR, Online content, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
This week saw the launch of a number of social media initiatives by the two main parties.
But, like a lot of UK politics, is it just style over substance?
In the run up to the general election, are the political parties creating true social media engagement with online citizens to achieve real social media success?
Google is always fiddling, or ‘refining’ as it calls it, with its algorithm, the one that determined which sites we see at the top of our search results pages.
Usually you need to be a search engine optimisation (SEO) expert or a real geek to spot the changes, or follow Google’s official blog.
With over 280,000 members, “Earthquake Haiti” is now the largest group on Facebook. Let the sceptics of social networking take note: not only are people using social media to find missing loved ones, but using it as a source of on-the-ground information.
According to web monitoring company, Compete, traffic to the micro-blogging website Twitter has flat-lined, suggesting its world dominance may not be so assured.
Microsoft and Murdoch could sign a deal that will (yet again) try to take on Google while simultaneously solving Murdoch’s paywall problem once and for all, in one fell swoop.
Well that’s what they think. Here I take a look at some of the possible implications to find out just why we really should care about any potential Microsoft/Murdoch partnership.
