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 .

Fail Whale
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
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10 Social Media #Epic #Fails

I’ve put together a presentation deck of 10 Social Media #Epic #Fails. It’s something I have been working on for a while and for the presentations I give, it often helps to include a few examples of More...

Digital World
By Ben Cotton On Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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Landing a Job in the Digital World

I gave a presentation this week entitled ‘Landing a Job in the Digital World’ at Leeds Metropolitan University. The deck focused on using an e-portfolio, blog and social media to record achievement, More...

Goal Post
By Ben Cotton On Sunday, June 13th, 2010
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An Introduction to Social Media at #SDVision

I gave a presentation this afternoon entitled ‘An Introduction to Social Media’ at the annual Supporters Direct (SD) conference. The event held at the home of the Institute of Technology and Engineering More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, June 7th, 2010
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Research Internship at Edelman

Edelman has a paid internship available for somebody to work in Strategy One – the agency’s research division. The role is to ‘assist in the media research activities of client projects and expose current More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, June 5th, 2010
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Ben-cotton.com Launched

I thought I’d let you know that my Lifestream, Ben-Cotton.com has gone ‘live’ after some initial beta testing. A lot of people have asked me, why have I produced this site, so hopefully this post will go some More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, May 31st, 2010
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Graduate Opportunities at Porter Novelli

I received a Tweet the other day from Ziad Traboulsi who very kindly pointed out to me an opportunity that may appeal to SWT readers – that Porter Novelli Novelli are offering paid work experience for graduates More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, May 29th, 2010
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10 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools

I was encouraged to write a list of free social media monitoring tools after a previous post where I argued why organisations have to monitor social media. Admittedly, this post has been a long time coming, but More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, May 24th, 2010
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Fishburn Hedges internship

I received a Tweet the other day from the Fishburn Hedges Twitter handle informing me of their upcoming graduate scheme. The London based agency is looking for someone who is about to enter their final year of More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
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Social Networks Become Social Entertainment

I was fortunate enough to attend the Edelman Social Entertainment breakfast last week where the findings of Edelman’s fourth annual Trust in the Entertainment Industry survey were presented. Gail Becker, President More...

PR Students
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, May 15th, 2010
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University Wises up to Personal SEO

I read an interesting article in Mashable last week reporting that Syracuse University in the United States has purchased subscriptions enabling its students to use Brand Yourself’s online reputation management More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, May 10th, 2010
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Wanted: Super intern with X factor

I recently heard about a great internship-meets-apprentice style opportunity for PR students via Andy Barr of 10 Yetis fame. “Wanted: Super Intern” is an innovative event organised by London Met student, Ekaterina More...

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