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LiveLABS @ TruLondon On Thursday and Friday this week I’ll be leading two tracks at TruLondon (http://thetruconferences.com/) that we hope will turn into something pretty special. We’ve...

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Socialgraphics: a customer-centric approach to social... The always incisive Jeremiah Owyang (who I met at the CSN Conference last year, where we were both speaking) left Forrester Research to join Charlene Li (who wrote Groundswell...

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Twitter and Sports Stars: and implications for Corporate... Just getting round to writing about two separate but interlinked events earlier in the year,  that is - sports stars using twitter. Philip Hughes revleaved prematurely...

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Latest on LinkedIn - recommendations more valuable... LinkedIn Recommendations & Jeremiah Owyang is an interesting (and comic) article by Jason Alba looking at why you should consider requesting/giving recommendations via...

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Social Media in Travel: volunteers required.. I am very much looking forward to speaking at the Sales & Marketing in Travel European Summit in Prague next month ( details ). I am going to be talking about how travel...

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One of the most common questions that comes up when I’m speaking with people about introducing social media in the...read more

We’ve written before about the growth of LinkedIn in Australia so we were interested to read about the organisations’...read more

The latest technology and internet report from Nielsen shows that Australians’ internet consumption in 2009 increased by 9...read more

I recently had the pleasure of presenting to the APSCo meeting in Manchester, where we presented ideas around online reputation...read more

In a great article from Advertising Age, Kunur Patel looks at the different social media models emerging in the corporate...read more

I remember when mobile location based services were first being touted in 2000 - in the midst of the dotcom boom and getting our...read more

While updating some LinkedIn training materials for a client session this week, I came across the following image from the...read more

Heard today about a firm offering to  remove bad reviews about your business from yelp. co.uk This is an interesting...read more

Prompted by the good people at Chinwag, we are now recruiting our very own twintern for the Summer. Graduates,  start sending...read more

Carve was asked last year to contribute a chapter to the Social Media in Recruitment guide, following a well received...read more

Cute influencer campaign for Marmite Extra Strong from We Are Social. Also proves the best ideas are the easiest told, as the...read more

On Thursday and Friday this week I’ll be leading two tracks at TruLondon (http://thetruconferences.com/) that we hope will turn...read more

Valentine’s Day courtesy of CareerPlayer.com (which, if you haven’t seen it  / don’t know of it )  is...read more

Some interesting slides in this deck (although the data is a year or so old), especially around how companies who have...read more

As a brand, whether you’ve decided to set up a twitter account, a facebook fan page or a blog to get closer to and engage...read more

For those of you who don’t follow the excellent Web Strategy blog written by Jeremiah Owyang from the Altimeter Group, here...read more

Three of the top five most engaging brands in the UK (as judged by research agency Hall & Partners) are brands that have...read more

Brilliant - for all you creative types out there, at least. Below you’ll find all the ads from the 44th NFL Superbowl...read more

Econsultancy has put together a snapshot of some of the statistics floating around about social media usage and compared it to...read more

No Apple release in recent years has avoided this classic mash-up treatment, but Hitler gets an iPad has got to be the funniest...read more

Following up on the post on Charlene Li / , the The Havard Business Publishing interview with Groundswell co-author Josh Bernoff...read more

The always incisive Jeremiah Owyang (who I met at the CSN Conference last year, where we were both speaking) left Forrester...read more

For those of you who couldn’t make this, here’s the webcast from the excellent panel debate with Biz Stone,, Chief...read more

The first of a series of worldwide Media 140 mini-events was held in London last week - here’s an interview with...read more

I was researching something else when I came across the below  employee guide  explaining why employers might want to use...read more

Couldn’t make LeWeb in Paris? Neither could we - but do the next best thing: watch live & track the conference social...read more

Your handy automatically updated widget (thanks la Google) to the hot search phrases and trends around social media marketing,...read more