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CMOs unprepared to handle digital data explosion
Emily Tan
13 October 2011, 10:45AM

While most of the world’s top marketing executives acknowledge a critical shift in the way they engage with their customers, many question their organisations’ ability to manage the change, a study by IBM has found.

Blanket bans on social media is not the answer
Nick Morse
13 October 2011, 9:43AM

News that a large proportion of UK businesses are clamping down on the use of social media channels like Facebook and Twitter in response to perceived security threats is sadly typical of the knee-jerk reaction most companies have when it comes to their internet security.

Google progammer lets rip at Google+, calls platform a "pathetic afterthought"
@gordonmacmillan
13 October 2011, 8:41AM

Well known Google progammer and blogger Steve Yegge has posted a long rant about Google’s failures concerning its social network Google+, which he has described as a “pathetic afterthought”. Yegge posted the piece on Google+ and had intended it to be an “internal post, visible to only Google staff, but mistakenly posted it so that it was visible for everyone to see. Then he left it up.

Blackberry outage now hitting users on "almost every planet", says CNN
Polly Becker
13 October 2011, 8:18AM

Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Blackberry after its humongous PR failure following its outage news reaches us that the outage is continuing to spread.

CNN reports that the “outage now impacting users on almost every planet”. This could be terrible for Blackberry as those Klingons can be very tricky customers. I bet the Emperor has a Blackberry he’ll be going spare on Coruscant.

Audi launches world's first interactive YouTube driving video
Polly Becker
12 October 2011, 12:35PM

This is cool. We’ve seen some good YouTube videos where you can interact with what happens on screen with Tipex last year and then we had Beer brand Desperados earlier this year.

Twitter suffers market share drop in the UK
@gordonmacmillan
12 October 2011, 11:45AM

Twitter has suffered a market share drop in the UK according to data from Experian Hitwise. In its latest UK Search Engine and Social Analysis it says that Twitter suffered a market share loss, falling from 3.87 to 3.40%, significant?

Why internet video was born to be social media marketed
Andy Havard
12 October 2011, 11:32AM

Online video is one of the web’s most engaging forms of media. Billions of videos are being watched each and every day from all across the world. The popularity of internet video has never been missed by online marketers who are always trying to push their goals through the use of online video.

Walmart and Facebook in joint venture to offer local ads
Dan Leahul
12 October 2011, 9:03AM

Two of world's biggest corporations have launched a joint web-venture that will allow users to search store-specific promotions across Walmart's 3,500+ US retail locations through a customizable Facebook app.

Walmart's 9.4m Facebook fans will be able to search the store nearest them and find deals on everything from LED TVs to Halloween candy. Promotions will be at store-level, so local events will dictate "rollback alerts" sent to app users, from football matches to inclement weather.

How to really fail in a crisis Blackberry style
@gordonmacmillan
12 October 2011, 8:49AM

If you have a Blackberry you probably haven’t had much in the way of service in the last couple of days. There are headlines like ‘BlackBerry users angry at failure’, BlackBerry service disrupted on 4 continents and Blackberry’s message goes missing across the web. It started early on Monday came back briefly and then was gone again for all of Tuesday and still today.

Microsoft Snares new CMO to steel itself against heightened competition
Sarah Shearman
11 October 2011, 2:49PM

Today Marketing reported that Microsoft UK has appointed Philippa Snare, long-term employee at the company, as its chief marketing officer, which seems to be the final piece in a jigsaw puzzle of a restructure and follows months of turmoil.

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