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Simon Heath

UK Election 2010 – Social media success is about substance, not style


UK Election 2010 - Social media success is about substance, not style

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?

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Chris Tomlinson

Twitter flat-lines: is theTweet separating from the Chav


Twitter flat-lines: is theTweet separating from the Chav

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.

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Chris Tomlinson

SEO Ate My Hamster!


SEO Ate My Hamster!

It’s easy to see how search engine optimisation (SEO) could affect the ancient art of grabbing readers attention, but will it really lead to the death of the creative headline?

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Simon Heath

Why we should care about Microsoft & Murdoch’s unholy alliance


Why we should care about Microsoft & Murdoch's unholy alliance

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.

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Chris Tomlinson

Will Murdoch really paywall his online news?


Will Murdoch really paywall his online news?

Since last August, Mr Murdoch has been threatening to charge for access to The Sun and Times Online by erecting a so-called ‘paywall’ around the online versions of his publications.

So why has he not done so yet?

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Simon Heath

Jan Moir, The Daily Mail and the influence of social media


Jan Moir, The Daily Mail and the influence of social media

Boy did Jan Moir learn a lesson about social media this weekend. A stark reminder of the effectiveness of social networking for galvanising public opinion around particular issues, in this case homophobia and bad journalism!

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Friend wins Huntingdonshire District Council account


Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) wants to raise the awareness of two amazing environmental projects they have created to show stakeholders, academics and the local community that it IS possible for anyone to have an entirely carbon-free home.
friend has been appointed HDC’s social media and online PR agency for the life of this project, to maximise [...]

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Chris Tomlinson

Is Guardian crowdsourcing bad for journalism?


Is Guardian crowdsourcing bad for journalism?

According to Wikipedia, ‘Crowdsourcing’ describes the process of taking a task, traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large, group of the community.

I can see most employers embracing it as a fantastic new concept, despite get-mugs-to-work-for-free being a well-established business model!

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Simon Heath

Run for your lives: Facebook goes all Twitter


Run for your lives: Facebook goes all Twitter

So Facebook is turning into Twitter? Right listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: disable your Facebook account immediately and run for cover before they put all your profile content on display for everyone to see.

But hold on just a minute. In the words of another great drama queen, calm down dear.

In fact what Facebook are doing is changing their business model to include public content sharing, profile ‘fans’ and real-time search (these are the headline grabbers).

Is this a good thing?

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Chris Tomlinson

Online poms don’t whinge


Online poms don't whinge

It is common knowledge that when people have a good customer experience they only tell one person, but when they have a bad one, they tell at least ten.
But according to our old friend, ‘a recent survey’, this doesn’t seem to be true online.

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