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An Idea Worth Spreading: Coca~Cola Happiness Machine UK

7 September 2010

I came across this youtube video from Coca~Cola (launched today 7th September 2010) that is truely REMARKABLE, and one that clearly everyone involved in will talk about, think about for a very long time to come. In fact I don’t think they’ll approach a Coke machine ever again without thinking about it or wondering ‘I [...]

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Search for a Cabinet – The Social Media Party

9 April 2010

The Idea Imagine if you could create a political party made up from people you believed would not only be right for the job but also have their finger on the pulse of their online community. Then imagine that the people around you (family, friends, personal/business network Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter or other social media platform [...]

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A perfect moment

23 March 2010

Yesterday evening I was told at the end of presenting a proposal that we’d won the project for a European product launch. There had been a few late nights ‘Sat by the Mac’ pulling ‘stuff’ together – oh, and that is me on the left – so it was great feeling to get the immediate [...]

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In the beginning there was sliced bread, and then came Radian6

18 March 2010

I love my job because I get to find out what people are talking about online, communicate, engage using social media everyday. But what has always been ‘challenging’ was monitoring and measuring. That was until I started using Radian6. So what is Radian6? Well, there is a sentence on the Radian6 website that sums it [...]

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Communication is changing, but are you?

24 February 2010

If you haven’t noticed yet, the talk of the town is how to integrate social media into everyday business. Whether from a small business or a global organisation perspective, everyone’s trying to find the ‘best way’ to incorporate social media in some way to solve their ongoing business challenges. But eventually organisations – big and [...]

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Bubba the bad ass doorman

15 February 2010

In business, how you communicate online (through social networks) will determine how successful you are. Businesses need to think of communicating online more as a private party: if you have an invite, then you’re in, but if you’re trying to gatecrash then everyone will turn into ‘Buba’ the bad ass doorman…! – and they’re all [...]

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Social Media Fear and the SMASBO

9 February 2010

I asked this question last week at Be2Camp, “Are you afraid of social media?” After a few looks around the room people started to put their hands up – not all, but enough for the question to stick in my mind as something to discuss here. It’s not the first time I’ve asked this question. [...]

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Travelling Books

5 February 2010

I was having a chat with my friend Andrew today, and he brought to my attention a website which I think is a fantatsic idea – and one which has a worldwide community. The site is Book Crossing, and it’s aim is to make the world one big library…! How? Register with Book Crossing and [...]

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Be2Camp – Social Media Week London

2 February 2010

Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting – this was meant to be yesterday’s blog – but I didn’t get home until 10.30pm and felt a bit knackered. Promise I’ll catch up by the end of the week What was that saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intensions’ …! Since yeaterday. a [...]

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