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Understanding how to engage with consumers on their own terms
26 June 2013, 11:47AM

listening to customersOften, one of the hardest things for marketers to decide is exactly what they should do next. The beauty of social media is that every second of every day, customers are telling businesses precisely what they want, why they want it, and how they want to get it. You just have to listen.

'Kiss me first' - clever brand tie-in or a level of personalisation too far?
26 June 2013, 8:45AM

Kiss Me First appA new book exploring our digital lives - Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach - has come up with an innovative way to promote itself. You log into the app with Facebook - and it uses its access to your personal details to show just how easy it could be to impersonate you online. The book explores the murky world of our online personas, and how they can be exploited.

How Google and Waze are revolutionising real-time data
26 June 2013, 6:30AM

wazeJust over a week ago, Google bought up what, up until now, has been seen as a thriving, yet not hugely influential social network call Waze. A niche network of drivers who use the service to report traffic problems, and so help the community avoid jams, Waze is a fantastic example of real-time data driving genuine results for users. Google is to be commended for seeing the far reaching potential of such a technology, and almost prescient in understanding how real-time data can be used across the technology spectrum.

Programmatic premium - what does it mean to you?
25 June 2013, 3:53PM

problemWhen you are putting across an argument or idea, you know what you are trying to say - and you believe your opinion is right. However, in focusing on your idea, it can be easy to forget that the way in which you are conveying your opinion may not be logical or comprehensible to the other party.

Infographic: the rise of animal stars on social media
25 June 2013, 10:13AM

Screen Shot 2013-06-25 at 10.43.02When is a cat bigger than a Beatle? On Twitter, naturally, where everything’s topsy turvy. So the man who gave the world ‘Band On The Run’ and ‘Jet’, Sir Paul McCartney, has fewer followers than Sockamillion, the account of a cat that tweets gems such as: “sitting under dining room table WAITING FOR THE DROP there we go MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH aaaa feet”.

From a Facebook Like to the food counter: brands can do more to engage with social media
25 June 2013, 8:49AM

social media food logosOnly 60% of the 85 retail food brands in the research use social media. Of those, 94% link to Facebook from their home page, a figure that has remained steady over the last twelve months. Facebook usage is maturing, compared to the 90% that have added Twitter into their websites, up from 76% that did so last year. So with Facebook the main social focus for retail food brands in the UK, how can they connect a Facebook 'Like' to the food counter and are food brands making the most of social media?

The story of how eBay was eaten by a crocodile in China
24 June 2013, 11:44PM

croc2Porter Erisman's engaging and compelling documentary "Crocodile in the Yangtze" on the rise of Alibaba.com in China is a gripping tale of a true David and Goliath battle for supremacy in the world's largest ecommerce market, China.

Social media users take restaurant to task; it responds with a lesson in how not to do things
24 June 2013, 10:14AM

lemp's zomato ratingFor couple of days in the second week of June "Lemp" was a top trending topic for over 20 million users of Twitter in India, non-stop. Surprisingly Lemp is not the name of a champion Indian cricketer, a famous Bollywood actor or a corrupt politician caught in yet another scandal.

Online success depends on offline behaviour
24 June 2013, 9:32AM

online success graphicIn recent years, countless meetings have taken place to determine the online strategy of companies all over the world. Just about every company has asked itself what role it should play on social media. This is a key discussion that's becoming even more important with every passing day.

In-touch travellers: how London's rail users are always in contact with the outside world
24 June 2013, 9:26AM

train commuters on mobileOur classic view of the rail commuter used to be some ground-down functionary cut off from the outside world, enduring the grisly journey to work by burying themselves in a book or crossword.


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