Posts under ‘social media’

Competition: Announcing the winner of Problogger’s book on blogging

Two weeks ago I launched a competition to give away my copy of Darren Rowse’s and Chris Garrett’s guide to pro blogging, Problogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six figure income.
Competition:
The competition invited readers to submit in the comment box the most successful blog post they have written and explain why they thought [...]

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Google Chrome speed test video

How cool is this video by Google highlighting the speed of its Chrome browser. My fav is the potato one.
I know I am a little late on this one, but so good it is still worth posting.
HT – Neville Hobson.
UPDATE – OPERA HAS RESPONDED WITH THIS VIDEO BELOW:

Thanks to Jordy for this via the comment [...]

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Competition: win a copy of @Problogger’s book on blogging

A couple of months back I made a concerted effort to increase the number of posts I made on here and increase the traffic coming to my blog. That process involved me reviewing the blogging practices of my favourite bloggers (see my blog roll in the right panel) and also involved me reading Problogger: Secrets [...]

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Chatroulette viral by Condomerie.com

Condomerie.com, an Amsterdam based specialty store (of course you say), has created a Chatroulette inspired video.
For those who are not aware, Chatroulette, is a video chat service that drops you into conversations with random strangers. Though be warned before you try it out for work, it is well lewd and crude.
Great video and clever way to [...]

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Microsoft Kin social media marketing – a case study

To build buzz for the launch of its new phone, Kin, Microsoft has been undertaking a fairly large scale new media campaign involving live events, a range of social platforms including, YouTube and  Facebook, and a tour of America that explores the concept of a ‘friend’ in today’s society.
The work, which I believe has been [...]

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Tips for improving your LinkedIn SEO

This is the third in a series of posts I have published on improving the SEO around your personal brand. In this post I wanted to share some tips on improving the SEO of your LinkedIn Profile.
Before I start, I want to be clear that even if you follow these tips it is unlikely you [...]

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The code behind a Tweet

How interesting is this image of the coding of an individual Tweet. There sure is a lot of stuff that goes into that short little <140 character message.
via RRW.

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The role for the CMO in Social

Forrester Analyst Mary Beth Kemp, has posted on her blog the graphic below outlining ways CMOs can be leading the integration of social across an entire organisation.
Following from the graphic I posted earlier in the week, I thought this was an excellent tool to break down the complex area of social into bite size chunks [...]

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Social media roles

Funnily enough it is often determining where social media should sit within an organisation that is one of the biggest barriers for companies adopting it.
Above is a clever little graphic that I have seen posted in a few places on the web over the last couple of days (strangely it isn’t attributed to anyone, but [...]

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Fail Whale artist releases Win Penguins

Yiying Lu, the designer of The Fail Whale, made famous as the image symbolising a Twitter outage, has been commissioned  by a San Francisco couple to create the ‘opposite of the fail whale’ to celebrate their marriage, according to Mashable.
The result (above) is titled Win Penguins. Aren’t they lovely? Hopefully these little fellows will see [...]

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