Can you tell from that headline we’re a bit inspired? It’s the morning after Social Media Influence 2010, a fascinating day of discussion and debate about what makes for a social company, the kind of …

Alexandra Wheeler, Digital Director for Starbucks will be speaking at the Social Media Influence conference on June 22. Here we look at how Starbucks’ new free WiFi initiative can be traced back to a fresh dedication to online customer engagement.

We’ve written a lot here about PepsiCo’s philosophy on social media, a philosophy that starts with using the public’s feedback to not only connect with its customers’ likes and dislikes, but to make better products and to possibly bring about some worthwhile change to the communities where we live. What’s next for PepsiCo’s social brand crusade? Crowd-sourcing the perfect Pepsi mobile application, apparently.

Regular readers to this site will know that we’re intent on defining what makes a truly Social Company so we’re very pleased to announce two new speakers for Social Media Influence 2010 who are devoting their energies to the very same subject.

Is Facebook on a collision course with privacy watchdogs? There have been isolated complaints in the U.S. and in Europe to rein in the rapidly growing social network and how it handles user data, but …

We’ve run our Social Media Influence conference for five years now and we’re excited to announce that, on June 22, at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square, once again we’ll be bringing some of the smartest social media thinkers together for a day of debate and best practice presentations.

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 …

Did you miss this year’s Social Media Influence conference?
Now you can see all the presentations and photos from the conference at the post-event site.
Here’s a snapshot of the good stuff to view….

Editor’s Note: Is your …

We all know that major brands have to adapt fast to the changing world of social media. Now Radar DDB has produced a Social Media Brandscape that seeks to show (with a healthy dose of …

The Social Media Influence conference that took place on March 3rd was a great success and included presentations from YouTube, LinkedIn, Radar DDB UK and Pinsent Masons. We’ll be posting videos of the day and …