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Social Media is Shit!? Is SM driving social change for better or worse?
techMAP kicked of 2012 with a fantastic presentation about our behavior online, the title was of course rather controversial but the presentation was sensitive, articulate and thought provoking. More information is up on the techMAP blog Below is the presentation we filmed and posted on Vimeo – enjoy and let me know your thoughts in...
Why I wont be attending iStrategy’s Conference
Wow… I’ve just received the most unbelievable phone call from the iStrategy Conference Company with reference to a tweet of mine on the 14th December. I’m familiar with iStrategy because they run a Social Media conference, and during last year they approached upwards of 15 times about either buying tickets or selling me sponsorship –...
20% off for #techMAP – Social Media Monitoring Training – London, 26th Jan
20% off for #techMAP – Social Media Monitoring Training – London, 26th Jan Luke Brynley-Jones (Our Social Times) and Marshall Sponder are running an exclusive, one-off social media monitoring class in London on 26th January. Attendees will learn how to choose, set up and configure a monitoring platform; how to identify influencers; how to extract...
FORSALE: 500BHP MK1 ESCORT (TVR V8)
Our Award winning, Magazine Featured and Top Gear DVD filmed Ford Escort Mk1 has regretfully got to go up for sale. It’s a rare to find a car with 512bhp, 800kg and the character of a Mk1 Escort, but 5 years ago a friend of ours built it, raced it and loved her, we bought...
3 things YOUR company is getting WRONG in Social Recruitment!
Incorrect hires must cost the economy £millions every year when you combine job advertising, wages and recruitment fees, and with the rise of Social Recruitment I believe we can start to reduce this wasted spend. As a follow on from a previous post ‘How to get found in Social Media’, I thought it would be...
Getting Found: Social Media for the Job Seeker
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There’s a rapidly expanding list of resources available to the job seeker to find work, with dedicated sites such as Chinwag, Only Marketing Jobs and New Media Age Jobs for the Digital Marketing sector. These sites all utilise tools such as Twitter and LinkedIn to build communities and broadcast their latest jobs (join and follow...
Techfluff.tv come to Social Media Monday
We was delighted to have Techfluff.tv join us this month at Social Media Monday in London, they sent their vlogger down to interview a few of us, which was quite well timed as the months event was on video in social media. From humble beginnings of a networking group set up on Linkedin, Social Media Monday(which...
[VIDEO] Love the Revolution
Whilst I concede that this isn’t exactly breaking news, but we all love a good stat and Social Media Revolution 2 gives us exactly that, I also concede that many of us are already converted and wise to the powers of social and the value that can gained from relationships and community online (and offline,...
Web 3.0 and Semantic Web
If you ever wanted a 15 min intro into what direction the web is going then here it is… The semantic web will change the way we search, organise and publish on the web. Experts in this emerging market are already cropping up and as search engines start to further develop their semantic’s in search...
Mazi.TV
They’re doing some really good work over at Mazi.tv – The Video Podcast that reviews UK Tech Startups. Founded by Social Media Consultant @Mazi and presented by @SharleneGerus, Mazi.TV has captured the attention of 1000′s of viewers and made its way onto iTunes – So its availalble as a VodCast on your iPhone, iPod and...
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