The Kindness of Virtual Strangers
Over the last few years charities have started to realise the potential of social media for distributing their message and reaching people beyond their donor lists. Even the smallest campaign, properly executed, can garner worldwide attention, and individuals in particular
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Flash, bang, wallop
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Instagram users. First the photo-sharing social network launched on Android, shattering the ‘member’s club’ mentality of its iPhone only users, and then there was the announcement that it had been bought by
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A note of Pinterest
Unless you have been a social media hermit for the past few months you will have noticed a new platform generating a lot of fuss. Pinterest is here and brands are taking their first tentative steps to use it to their
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What’s Happening in Social
Social TV, new music discovery and a rival to Foursquare– it’s all going on in Social this week. Check out our Top 5 picks from the week: Zeebox Adds ‘Click-to-Buy’ Tags Last week, social TV app Zeebox moved towards monetising
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Key Trends for 2012
This week we’ve been trawling through the hundreds of 2012 predictions produced at the launch of the New Year to pick out those which we feel will impact Social in the year ahead. From the growth of mobile advertising, to
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What’s new in social?
The three big players in social are drawing up the battle lines (again). They are working overtime to retain their users, attract new ones and drive incremental advertising revenue. Over the past few weeks Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have begun
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