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 stated the remit will cover “advertisements and other marketing communications by or from companies, organisations or sole traders More...
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...
Takeaways from the Social Media, Direct Marketing & Making Money Panel at #SMW
This Wednesday I attended the Social Media, Direct Marketing & Making Money event as part of Social Media Week. It was a good evening with an experienced panel of social media experts including Roger Warner More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Edelman Digital are Hiring
After some new business wins and promotions, Edelman Digital are on the look out for a couple of ambitious AE’s and SAE’s to join the growing ranks of Spookies in our London office. Ideally, you’ll have agency More...
10 Free Data Visualization Tools
In my day to day role I often need to create a graph, chart or table to simplify what can sometimes be a lot of data into a salient point or to tell a story. Here are 10 free data visualizations tools; some provide More...
