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Apr 19, 2012 • Comments Closed The 41st London Book Fair has been taking place at Earl’s Court in London this week. It’s an industry that faces huge challenges to its publishing media (print versus electronic formats) workflow, distribution, and commercial business model. Change is slow. But we were chuffed to bits that Brand Anarchy, the book I’ve written with Steve...
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Apr 12, 2012 • Comments Closed Thanks to everyone that has blogged and Tweeted about our book Brand Anarchy: Managing Corporate Reputation published by Bloomsbury at the end of the last month. Here’s some of the early comment from the social web. If you’ve read the book we’d love to hear what you think via the hashtag #brandanarchy. “I agree with a...
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Apr 12, 2012 • Comments Closed This was the week that everyone became an expert in social media valuations. No one has a clue of course what was going through Mark Zuckerberg’s head when he agreed a cash and shares deal to buy Instagram. But that doesn’t stop us celebrating or speculating about the deal. Don’t get me wrong I’m a...
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Mar 30, 2012 • Comments Closed The first review of Brand Anarchy is in with thanks to Peter Hay who blogs at A smidge of what you fancy. “Brand Anarchy: a book that takes the urban sprawl of our current media landscape, flattens it to its foundations and reconstructs it, explaining how and why each structure looks and stands in the...
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Mar 22, 2012 • Comments Closed The validity of peer analytics tools as an absolute metric has long been questioned. Paul Sutton spotted that your Klout score increases on your birthday. He believes that the bump occurs because engagement increases around personal anniversaries as people in your network wish you well. Paul has published a graph showing how his Klout jumped a...
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Mar 15, 2012 • Comments Closed Are we becoming dependent on social networks, and what does that mean for our mental well-being and the future of our relationships? That’s the issue that Chris Owen and I tackled in an article for The Kernel published on Wednesday. We teamed up to write the article after kicking around the issue one night on...
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Mar 12, 2012 • Comments Closed We seem to have accepted that handing over our personal data is the price that we must pay to access web services. It’s an issue that is clouded by terms and conditions that consumers don’t read until they attract the attention of the mainstream media. And even then there is little evidence that users really...
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Mar 2, 2012 • Comments Closed The pub called Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is just about all that is left of the British newsprint industry in Fleet Street, London. For more than 300-years as the nearby buildings shook with the vibration of printing presses, journalists would gather at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese at the end of the day to share their...
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Mar 2, 2012 • Comments Closed The pub called Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is just about all that is left of the British newsprint industry in Fleet Street, London. For more than 300-years as the nearby buildings shook with the vibration of printing presses, journalists would gather at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese at the end of the day to share their...
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Feb 24, 2012 • Comments Closed Are we becoming addicted with checking our social networks? Here are the views of my Twitter network as told by a Storify post.
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Feb 21, 2012 • Comments Closed How long do you think before social media ceases to be used to describe media that is generated by consumers formerly known as the audience, or content that is shared via networks? In 2012, with few exceptions, all media must be social. But for its part the PR industry is fracturing. Modernisers are helping chart...
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Feb 20, 2012 • Comments Closed Have you sorted out your ticket and frock yet for Thursday evening, 23 February? That’s the date of the PR Prom fundraiser for Bright One, the volunteer run agency for the third-sector. The evening kicks off at 7pm at Shoreditch Town Hall, EC1. It’s billed as the antidote to industry awards dinners; an opportunity to dress...
