Ben Cotton

Marketing Manager with a passion for inbound at HubSpot, Founder of Growth Hack Talks, Blogger at Ben-Cotton.com and Chief Quaffer at CraftySwine.org .

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, January 29th, 2011
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Edelman Grad Scheme Closing Shortly

From personal experience I know this time of year is an incredibly busy part of the student calendar, so I thought I’d remind those who are interested in applying for the Edelman graduate scheme that you have More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, January 24th, 2011
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2011 Euprera Social Media Awards

This post is aimed any PR student, practitioner or group bloggers out there who has been developing a blog for a while – have you heard about the Euprera Social Media Awards? The awards will be presented at the 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 Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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Q&A with Graeme Anthony AKA the Guy whose CV went Viral

Happy New Year – and what better way to kick things off than by having a chat with one of the industry stars of 2010! I’m delighted that Graeme Anthony, Senior Account Manager at Frank PR, AKA the guy whose C.V.I.V 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...

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By Ben Cotton On Monday, December 20th, 2010
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Fantastic e-portfolio Tool Integrated with LinkedIn

I recently discovered (accidentally) a great e-portfolio service integrated with LinkedIn – it’s from Behance and called the Creative Portfolio Display. The application is not particularly new, having been More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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Q&A with Young PR Pro of the Year

This post is the eight Q&A in an ongoing series looking at the usual Social Web Thing discussion topics of PR, social media and employability. I’m delighted that Ben Matthews, Programme Manager at 33 Digital 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, December 4th, 2010
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Q&A with Paratus’ Lead Social Media Consultant

This post is the seventh Q&A in an ongoing series looking at the usual Social Web Thing discussion topics of PR, social media and employability. I’m delighted that Adam Vincenzini, Lead Social Media Consultant More...

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