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As strike looms, British Airways launches Twitter charm offensive
March 15, 2010 – 9:02 am | 10 Comments

Strikes by British Airways employees famously cause chaos. Think back to this Christmas and in August, 2005. (There are more examples, no doubt.) But this time, BA seems much better prepared, finding replacement staff and …

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Confessions of an embedded “corporate journalist”
March 12, 2010 – 5:35 pm | 4 Comments

Thomson Reuters, my former employer, published this week its social media guidelines, rules that all its journalists should consider before Tweeting, blogging, uploading, or simply publishing, the news. The principles espoused – accuracy, objectivity, transparency – are hardly futuristic. They are values Read the full story »

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Psst, building a social media presentation…?
March 12, 2010 – 1:40 pm | 3 Comments

…to impress the boss, a client or room-full of curious suits. Then you might want to look at this social media presentation from Stefano Principato posted to Slideshare earlier this week. It has a little …

Bursting the 90-9-1 “rule” of online community
March 12, 2010 – 12:25 pm | 6 Comments
Bursting the 90-9-1 “rule” of online community

If you’re not familiar with the 90-9-1 explanation of online community engagement/participation, it goes something like this:

Cisco explains its social journey
March 11, 2010 – 1:20 pm | 3 Comments
Cisco explains its social journey

Here’s a fresh new presentation, hot off the Slideshare presses, by LaSandra Brill, a senior manager on Cisco’s Global Social Media team.
It documents the company’s embrace of social media participation, whether it is active and …

YouTube inks advertisers for live sports broadcasts
March 11, 2010 – 11:11 am | One Comment
YouTube inks advertisers for live sports broadcasts

In what’s being hailed a sports broadcasting “first,” tomorrow Google will begin live streaming all 60 Indian Premier League matches for the 2010 season on YouTube. You can imagine the massive expense for Google to …

Chevrolet makes a social statement for SXSW.
March 11, 2010 – 10:58 am | 13 Comments
Chevrolet makes a social statement for SXSW.

Spring is just around the corner so brace yourself for a new slew of auto social media driving trips all geared to give real people a chance to put [insert your auto brand model here] …

Welcome to Twitter. Population: 15 million zombies
March 11, 2010 – 9:53 am | 4 Comments
Welcome to Twitter. Population: 15 million zombies

That’s the latest scary assessment of Twitter usage metrics, courtesy of Web security firm Barracuda Networks. The security specialist says they looked at Twitter’s 19 million accounts and determined nearly four out of five (or, …

Social Media Activism and what it can teach Big Business
March 10, 2010 – 7:12 pm | 10 Comments
Social Media Activism and what it can teach Big Business

How to build a online community that is more than just the sum of its numbers?
That’s the quandary facing so many companies and brands as they try and make sense of what value or benefit …

Me & My Web Shadow – The Keynote Primer
March 10, 2010 – 4:50 pm | One Comment
Me & My Web Shadow – The Keynote Primer

Social Media Influence speaker Antony Mayfield has a new book out titled Me & My Web Shadow.
You can pre-order it on Amazon but if you can’t wait that long to take a peak inside here’s …

Vodafone is reading your Tweets. Lucky you!
March 10, 2010 – 11:08 am | One Comment
Vodafone is reading your Tweets. Lucky you!

Mobile phone carriers aren’t exactly popular with their customers these days. Billing disputes, service gripes and the like triggered a chart-topping 37,477 registered complaints in the U.S. last year, America’s Better Business Bureau reports, making …

The viral video that could sink the Prius
March 10, 2010 – 9:57 am | One Comment
The viral video that could sink the Prius

Toyota this morning is facing fresh demands for a mandatory recall, this time of its wildly popular hybrid, the Prius. The calls are mainly coming from members of the public (and automotive columnists too) in  …