Tag archive for ‘Social Media’
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, March 26th, 2011
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Social and Mobile in Ireland

This week my Edelman colleagues Eoin Dowling and Piaras Kelly launched an infographic video which appeared on the Edelman Digital blog and highlighted the explosion of social media usage amongst key audiences, as More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, February 28th, 2011
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Vacancy at Content & Motion

I received an email last week from industry colleague Roger Warner, Founder of Content & Motion telling me of their latest vacancy which may interest SWT readers. C&M is looking for a Social SEO Executive More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, February 26th, 2011
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What Does the Extended ASA Remit Mean for You?

On Monday 1 March 2011 the extended Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) remit will come into effect. A lot has been made of this ruling and the impact it will have on social media and digital marketing. The ASA previously More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, February 20th, 2011
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10 Steps to Undertaking a Successful Blogger Outreach Programme

This post is the third of a series looking at online influencers. The first listed great free tools that help identify influential people and the second suggested practical considerations when selecting online More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, January 30th, 2011
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Takeaways from the Edelman Trust Barometer 2011

The Edelman Trust Barometer 2011 findings were published last week on the eve of the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Whilst everyone agrees that being trustworthy is undoubtedly a good thing, it is More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
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#MEATEASY Serves Up a Tweet

Goldsmith Tavern, a pub in New Cross has received a great deal of online coverage over the last week or so. The reason being is that this unremarkable pub has quite a remarkable operation going on upstairs. Tuesday More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, January 15th, 2011
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5 Tips to Pitch Yourself to a Potential Employer Using Social Media

I was inspired to write these tips after reading Katelyn Mashburn’s fantastic post on making the perfect pitch to journalists. This got me thinking about not only how important it is to get the pitch right when More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, January 8th, 2011
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2010 Review of Social Web Thing

The beginning of a  new year is always a good time to look back and reflect, so I was pleased to receive an email a couple of days ago from the ‘stats helper monkeys’ at WordPress which kindly produced More...

By Ben Cotton On Friday, December 24th, 2010
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Have a Great Christmas!

Firstly, I’d like to wish all Social Web Thing readers a Happy Christmas and thank you all for continuing to read and comment on the blog. 2010 has been a good year for me, personally and SWT – the blog More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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Social Web Thing makes the CRAPPs shortlist

I received more great news this week – Social Web Thing has been shortlisted for ‘the best blogger PR award’ at the Communicative Relations Awards from PR Professionals – the light hearted awards More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, November 27th, 2010
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What is Social Media?

I’ve been inspired by my former lecturer, Richard Bailey to pen this post simply asking ‘what is social media?’ There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of credible explanations and below is Wikipedia’s More...

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