Archive for the ‘social networks’ Category

Sexual disease in young Britons on increase

July 15th, 2008 — Mark

Two years we highlighted the UK government’s decision to shun social media and opt for magazines and television in educating the young of Britain about the dangers of Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea and other sexual diseases. This decision flew in the face of research showing that most young people took advice about sexual matters from their [...]

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Recommending contacts in a social network – patent claim

June 30th, 2008 — Mark

Some scientists at Microsoft have applied to patent a method of recommending contacts in a social network. For social networking nerds it is worth looking at the claims and the prior art responses. Social networking is now close enough to the mainstream of web activity for this patent claim to represent a serious [...]

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Obama and the power of networks

May 27th, 2008 — Mark

Roger Cohen writing in the New York Times points to the success of Barack Obama’s campaign as an example of the role of social networks in 21st century marketing. It is an example of the power of the many and shows up Hillary’s somewhat narrower base. Quoting from Joshua Green in the Atlantic [...]

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H&R Block do social media

May 18th, 2008 — Mark

H&R Block used social media marketing to boost their profile and raise awareness of their digital accounting product, reports Ad Age. The lady responsible was Amy Worley (Photo: Jonathan Fickies). They used YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Second life. As AdAge comments, this kind of marketing in social media is “about stacking [...]

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Consumers are the new brand managers

May 4th, 2007 — Mark

Internet World took place in London this week. Jonny Rosemont of Weber Shandwick has posted a nice summary of the key lessons. Here is part of it:
“Digitising is changing the world but it shouldn’t change communications strategies i.e. it is still all about giving people what they want
Consumers have to be co-opted into [...]

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