Tag Archives: social media

Turn an Email Address into a Social Profile with Flowtown

http://www.flowtown.com/

This, is genius. All the companies out there who’ve been building an email database for the past 10 years, just as everything goes social, this is for you.

Tap in your email database, and get back data on which social networks your targets are using along with any available social data, allowing you to enhance the profile information you hold in your database and carry out targeted social media conversion campaigns.

Plus lots more I’m sure I’ve not yet thought of. Winner.

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Nestle get Youtube to pull Kit Kat viral... #socialmediafail

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/autofrontpage

I was interested to see how Nestle would respond to the brilliant viral campaign from Greenpeace yesterday, and was stunned to read that they’d used a copyright infringement claim to have the video pulled by Youtube… NOOOOOOOOOOOOO….. who’s advising them over there!? My 2 year old son could have told them that would stoke the flames, draw another prominent brand into the story, and give the viral additional impetus. If he could talk.

A video response from the CEO talking about the difficulties of sourcing these materials globally, the complexities of the supply chain, a commitment to urgently review their materials sourcing, and highlighting the efforts they making already and some of the good they do in the world… as they say in the update on the Greenpeace website, censorship is so last century.

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British Airways attacks strike action with viral campaign

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/990120/British-Airways-attacks-strike-action-viral-campaign/

This is really interesting… BA are going on the offensive via social media to try to win over the public in their dispute with the unions. They’ve hired Agency.com to put together a social media strategy, and have launched a ‘viral’ video from the chief exec.

Whilst I have no idea what’s meant to be viral about the video, it is a great example of how businesses are using social media as a direct-to-consumer PR vehicle when winning hearts and minds is critical.

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http://www.davedoesdigital.com/home/davedoes/public_html/wp-content/media/2010/02/weird.png

they’re doing social media pretty well, firstly by being brave (getting rid of their website and replacing it with a twitter feed), and now by making an infinite stream of weirdness on their website homepage. brave = viral & social.

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Social Media Governance Policy Database

http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php

Struggling with forming a social media policy for your employees? Visit the and read how other organisations are approaching the space. Then when you’ve written yours… share it.

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/nokia-mounts-huge-ovi-maps-signpost-on-a-crane-in-london-video/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/nokia-mounts-huge-ovi-maps-signpost-on-a-crane-in-london-video/

People text/ email in to control the arrow. Lovely execution, but would be interested to see ROI.

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Good read on the social elements of the Grammys

http://www.viralblog.com/social-media/we’re-all-fans-–-the-grammys-go-social

which suggests that social media could be the main factor contributing to the 35% uplift in ratings this year.

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interesting article on the bext web

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/02/01/starbucks-fails-flickr

about Stabucks messing up in social media for once on Flickr. The main interesting point I took from it was that Starbucks have an official, sponsored group on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/starbuckscoffeecompany

Which brands that we work with could be doing the same (but properly).. Canon?

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I’m a huge Lost fan. They’ve done some…

I’m a huge Lost fan. They’ve done some quite cool social media campaigns before – augmented reality games, video virals and fake websites. This is the latest from ABC: user created lists of the best scenes/moments/characters, to promote the final season. It’s not the most amazing mechanic in the world, but it got me thinking about how much I like the show, so I guess it works. Namasté.

http://abc.go.com/shows/lost/top-five-lists?cid=?cid=Lost_alert_02012010_dwy_lists

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social media

http://www.refresheverything.com/index

How do do when you’ve only got a $20M budget to play with.

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