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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Competition: Announcing the winner of Problogger’s book on blogging
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Want to understand how Twitter's Promoted Tweets work?
UPDATE – the video I embedded in this post has been removed from Vimeo and everywhere else on the web it seems. As soon as I can find it again, or a version that is as good, I will post it again.
Heard the buzz about Promoted Tweets on Twitter, but not sure what it all [...]
SEO your Twitter profile
As you will see from the above, Twitter is the number two result when you search my name in Google, so is an incredibly important channel for my personal brand.
For those who are interested in growing their results in Google, I believe Twitter is one of the easiest ways along with Facebook and LinkedIn that [...]
Australia’s ABC ranks high in Twitter ranks
Teqnolog has prepared a whole heap of charts tracking the number of Tweets individuals and organisations are making across the globe. Within the charts it was interesting to see the ABC right up there in the top Twitter organisations globally.
Of course numbers of Tweets don’t mean much and don’t suggest conversation or engagement, but interesting [...]
Most Fortune 100 don't get Twitter
Today Weber Shandwick (my employer) released a study highlighting the fact that most of the Fortune 100 companies don’t get how to use Twitter effectively. Though I don’t suspect that was a huge surprise to a lot of people – especially those in the social media space.
The report found that 73 percent of Fortune 100 [...]
Italy earthquake
I posted the tweet above a couple of minutes after this week’s Italian earthquake. The quake measured 6.3 on the Richter scale and mainly hit L’Aquila, a town roughly 60 miles north of Rome. Little did I know at that time that time that tragically up to 207 people would die.
The quake brought back memories [...]
Me and MJW immortalised in cartoon form
Me and MJW immortalised in cartoon form
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Me and MJW immortalised in cartoon form”, posted with vodpod
My friend Charlie sent me the Current TV cartoon embedded above this afternoon.
Whilst I found this quite funny it is a little eerie due to the likeness of the two characters to myself and [...]
