Posts Tagged as ‘facebook’

June 7, 2010

Trendplanner Twitter Top 10: May 2010

Image: joelaz For a nice round up of the best stuff from last month here’s the top ten links posted via the trendplanner Twitter profile. All made possible thanks to the stats I get from Hootsuite. 1. Unconventional use of Google analytics to achieve: Converse Domination (Clever) – http://ow.ly/1LUnu 2. The digital poster adverts that [...]

March 1, 2010

10 ways the Internet has made everyone a celebrity

It wasn’t that long ago that you had to be famous to be in the media. For years now the rich and famous have had to watch everything they do in public (and often private) for fear that their every move is being monitored and documented. One wrong step and their lives could be turned [...]

January 1, 2010

Behind the Great Firewall of China

Before I visited China I was aware of the high level of Internet censorship, or as many call it the great firewall of China. However, due to mixed reports and constant change I was unsure exactly what the Chinese web browsing experience would bring. As it turned out not all of my preconceptions turned out [...]

November 2, 2009

Trendplanner Twitter Top 10: October 2009

Even if I can’t use Hootsuite to read tweets I can still use it to send them. So here’s the top ten tweets from last month. 1. Good insight – 10 Principals for Engaging Teens/20 somethings. http://ow.ly/pq90 2. The Ultimate List of Niche Social Networks – http://ow.ly/tjB0 3. Losing To The Social Web: Visualized – [...]

September 23, 2009

Social Media: Why not make a game of it?

There’s a lot of hype around right now about the mobile service called foursquare. For those that don’t know foursquare is a location based social networking mobile application. The first element of Foursquare is a friend locator; it allows users to share and see the location of their friends that are also using the service [...]

August 18, 2009

What playing Poker can teach us about using Social Media

Brands are finally starting to enter social media channels, and those that are yet to do so will have to in very near future. Social media provides some very real challenges for brands, but with these challenges comes some amazing opportunities. It’s a complex game that requires some serious attention, skill and knowledge. Not unlike [...]

July 23, 2009

Mobile Phones let us change our plans – Geo-location could stop us planning altogether

Remember the days before mobiles (some of you actually won’t!)? Plans to meet friends were made days in advance, there was no changing plans at the last minute, you had to be where you said, when you said. In theory this sounds great, no last minute cancelling, no slack time keeping, however, it’s not much [...]

May 11, 2009

Social Media: Do you need to reinvent the wheel?

It’s claimed that in Mesopotamia (part of modern day Iraq) 3500BC one of the most important tools ever was invented. That tool was the wheel, however the original use of the wheel is unlikely to be the use that most people would automatically associate it with in the current day. In 3500BC the wheel was [...]