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    Blogfest 2011 - Topshop's smart Tumblr strategy

    Here is at long last, my first entry for the Bathroom Blogfest 2011 on how Topshop uses to Tumblr to 'climb out'. I do promise I'll put up a bathroom related post tomorrow for fun though! Here we go! Brands have embraced social media as a means to 'climb out' and 'hang out' with their fans on social networks. Some brands do it well, others have had their fails...  I've been in working in the social industry for a ...
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    Using social content to drive sales through search

    There’s a very wrong assumption floating around the heads of many CMO’s and small business owners alike, that having a Facebook page and Twitter profile is enough, because social media is this new and wonderful thing which is going ‘to do wonders’ for your brand. I am sure we’ve all had clients who have asked for thousands of fans and followers, as quickly as possible without any content, or budget to create conte...
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    It's that time of the year again. What are you New Year's...

      Photo via Dear blog, It is that time of the year where I should publish my New Year's Resolutions for all to see. Wish me luck, and thanks James for inspiring me! Resolution #1: blog more  I've been suffering from blogger's fatigue on and off since I started blogging back in 2006, which has sadly impacted on the quality of the content on this blog. I recently spotted a tremendous post by Mack ...
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    A few social, search and mobile trends for 2012

      I am not usually a big fan of prediction posts, particularly when it comes to social, but recently spotted a handful of predictions by industry experts worth mentioning.   Without further ado, here are a handful interesting social, search and mobile trends for 2012. These 3 disciplines are inextricably interlinked, yet too often siloed, so I figured I would sum them all up in one...
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Foursqaure & Google Maps

How to embed your Foursquare check-ins in Google Maps

Jul 27th

Posted by Lolly in Social Networking - Tools & News

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I absolutely love this, as I can now easily remember the places I checked in but also take a look at my shout-outs! Here are the three easy steps you need to follow:

1)      Log into your foursquare account and head over to http://foursquare.com/feeds/

2)      Copy the URL for your KML feed and paste that URL into the search box

3)      Add ?count=1000 (or more/less depending on your number of checkins) after the .kml extension

Voila! Here’s a map of all your checkins (Click picture to enlarge)

N.B: Best avoided if you do not wish to share your location with the rest of the world

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Geotag your Internet life

Nov 10th

Posted by Lolly in Social Networking - Tools & News

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Tagging is an amazing way of categorising user-generated content and brings order to the huge amount of content on the Web.   Don’t you love searching Flickr photos for inspiration, or browsing WordPress tags for articles of interest? None of this would be possible without tagging.

Geo-tagging has been around for a while, and millions of people are already doing so every time they upload a geo-coded photo to Flickr, or Tweet about a specific place.  To get a sense of what some of this activity looks like, check out Twittervision (a bit spooky!) or Flickrvision (awesome!)  which show Tweets and Flickr photos, on More >

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Blogtillyoudrop says: Find Me

Oct 12th

Posted by Lolly in Digital PR Campaigns

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George Bernard Shaw’s observation that the US and the UK are “two nations divided by a common language’ became reality when I logged onto my Facebook account this morning (see below)

According to my calculations, 51.5001 of Brits would prefer to spell words such as favor or color without the letter ‘U’ as this makes spelling much easier. This figure decreased by -0.129057 compared to the previous year.

Head over there for confirmation of these figures but bear in mind that this website might help you with your quest for the perfect English…

Good luck!

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