It’s been a massive week in social media and search as the Google beast woke up and flexed its muscles. Hot on the heels of the roll out of their +1 functionality (see Omar’s post here http://wearemba.com/2011/06/28/google-plus-one-1-the-minute-guide/) , they began the soft launch of Google+ offering … Read More →
In the Facebook Effect Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as suggesting calling us out on the fact that we don’t really care about the world. “A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.” That’s the … Read More →
To distribute content on social platforms more effectively, how useful would it be to know when people share most stuff, most readily. Pretty useful, no? Check out this infographic from Fastgush: Sharing on Social Media is all about timing. Okay, it’s about the US and … Read More →
A traditional creative agency thinks social prowess is all about keeping up to date with new features of social platforms and working out how those features can be put to work as an extra channel to push the old broadcast ways. A traditional media agency … Read More →
This weekend was weird. I’m not talking about the rain, hail and wind. I’m not talking about Sarah Palin’s emails being released. No, I’m talking about the lack of football and all of the associated TV programmes, radio shows and column inches. It made me … Read More →
trendwatching have recently released their latest trend brief, The F-Factor. I won’t go into all of the details as they’ve written it far better than I can but here are the points that jumped out at me. In a nutshell the F-Factor is the influence … Read More →
Over the last few days there have been numerous updates in my newsfeed of friends interacting with the recent work from Intel’s Museum of Me. If you’ve not had a play with it as yet I highly recommend you do so by going here. In short … Read More →
“My Facebook profile contains some rather questionable drunken photos. It includes my political & religious views, inappropriate jokes and all manner of things with which ‘Normal Brand X’ would hate to be associated.” I’m pretty sure that the majority of people on Facebook would be able to … Read More →
In the second of what looks like becoming an ‘Activation 101′ series, below I cover off some approaches to cover off Facebook page governance. (The first post is here and is about the approved Twitter and Facebook usage when promoting your profiles in other places.) … Read More →
New Facebook news feed feature
I noticed a new feature on my Facebook yesterday morning, and from a quick poll of 3 people I know, not everybody has yet. The new feature is a “mini” news feed that sits on the right hand side of your Facebook page, and provides … Read More →