Tag Archives: Facebook
What is Instagram and what’s all the fuss?
Posted on 25. Apr, 2012 by Richard Eckles.
Instagram is a mobile photo sharing app. Some might say it’s a micro blogging site for users to share their life through photos, in a similar way that Twitter does with words. Of course it is the simplicity of Instagram as a concept that has gained it such huge success since launching in October 2010. [...]
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10 Handy Social Media Tips for Spring
Posted on 19. Apr, 2012 by Simon Heyes.
Regardless of whether or not you work in digital marketing, you will have used Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, URL shorteners, or a combination of different Social Media platforms. Many of the posts we write on this blog are designed for people in the digital marketing community, so I wanted to break from the norm and [...]
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Image content is the future of social networking
Posted on 17. Apr, 2012 by kirstythomson.
The hot topic over the past couple of weeks has been the purchase of Instagram by Facebook for $1billion. Photo sharing app Instagram was launched in October 2010 exclusivity for iPhone users, only launching its Android version of the app into the Android Market in the first week of April this year. As most will [...]
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Google vs Westminster on Privacy
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by Kevin Gilmartin.
Google made the headlines over privacy again this week, and not for the first time this month. This time the search giant was standing up to Westminster Members of Parliament, who believe that the major online players should be controlling what we can say and see, all in the name of privacy. Parliament’s involvement in [...]
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Branded Facebook Timeline Covers: 10 of the best (so far)
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by Michael Bochel.
Facebook Timeline for brands has only recently been announced but already some brands and organisations have embraced it and updated their Facebook brand pages accordingly. The launch has been widely covered and many have already commented on what it means and why there is the usual outcry when change takes place. I am not here [...]
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Facebook and Spotify: Loved up or Break up ?
Posted on 14. Feb, 2012 by Danielle Reed.
What is your anthem when switching your relationship status to ‘single’ ? Do you have a break up anthem ? Or are you ‘In a relationship’ ? What’s your favourite song for setting a romantic ambience ? The love birds at Spotify have teamed up with the romantics of the Facebook analytics team to give us the top songs that people listen [...]
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Competitions and Social Media
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Georgia Artus.
These days, it seems like everyone who’s anyone is running an online competition. Love football? Answer these questions on our Facebook page for free tickets to your favourite match. Adore food? Tweet us your pictures to win a cooking session with an acclaimed chef. From a quick look at my personalised Facebook advert feed I [...]
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Please share my sales page
Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by Lucas Bigwood.
The launch of Google+ Pages for business last week and the many other social networks has meant content creation and community engagement now play a vital role in any successful digital strategy. With the growing number of social networks also comes a greater choice of social sharing buttons for businesses to add to their websites [...]
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Google+ Pages for business are here
Posted on 11. Nov, 2011 by Kevin Gilmartin.
Google+ has fast become a prominent feature of the social landscape. Who will ever forget the fierce summer rush for invites to the closed beta? Some desperate social media enthusiasts even paid up to $75 for an invite from eBay. More and more invites were sent out and, when the platform finally made registration available [...]
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Has Google pulled a Facebook with Reader?
Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by Jason Morton.
Mountain View’s design might has traditionally been through minimalism – but will a warm and cosy new approach thin the herd of Reader and Gmail users? Google must feel that competition’s heating up with Facebook in the redesign realm, as it’s rolling out big changes to both its Reader and email services. And while Google [...]
