Monthly Archives: April 2011

The T-Mobile Royal Wedding

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MBA and MediaCom client T-Mobile launched the ‘T-Mobile Royal Wedding‘ on Friday at lunchtime. This latest work is intended as a well-spirited congratulations towards William and Kate and their upcoming nuptials.     And it’s being received very well!  As of this morning, not even 3 days … Read More

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Google Rolls Out Panda in UK. More Tips for Brands.

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Panda Rolls Out in UK

Following its debut in the US, Panda has now hit our shores. On Monday April 11th, Google announced the roll-out of its infamous algorithm in the UK market.  Search Metrics and Sistrix  have both since published initial lists of winners and losers.  Here’s the Lowdown on Panda Losers… 1) Content Farms/MFA … Read More

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Engaging colleagues in social media

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Don't fight it

I’m probably about to preach to the converted or at the worst the nearly converted. Hopefully some of the following points might help to convince your bosses to let you use social media for work. There’s a whole separate blog post to be written about … Read More

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Cool? Or a load of balls?

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Reading on TechCrunch earlier I came across a story about a new toy called Sphero. They’ve just secured themselves $5m of investment so I’m sure they all have big smiles right now. Check out the video and see if you think it’s worth it.   … Read More

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There’s one of ours in 120 Hours

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Last night, the IAB launched 120 Hours of Digital Display in association with BrandRepublic and DoubleClick. It’s an exhibition aimed at getting us to re-appraise the way we look at digital display creative. They’ve transformed their Covent Garden offices for one-off the event so they … Read More

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It only has one function?!?

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I was watching a TED video this week, from Ken Robinson, who talks about how he feels schools can kill creativity (he makes a very good point, and I would recommend you watch him; here). During the video he mentions that his daughter does not … Read More

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Ghastly Journalism

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Spot the Metro Ghost

Do you believe everything you read? What about everything you see? We live in a world where everyone from BP to the Iranian government has been caught photoshopping images for their own ends. So with that in mind, you’d think that journalists would be pretty sharp … Read More

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Social media ruined my April Fools’ day

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Google - having a whale of a time

We used to be such trusting, gullible people who hung on every word a news organisation said to us. In the annual ‘look how funny we are’ fest today we’ve seen everyone try to pull a fast one and amuse us. Google have plonked a … Read More

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