The Big Money’s Chad Matlin recently announced the Twitter 12 and explains his selection criteria for choosing 12 American corporations who are getting the most out of Twitter.
The process only considered US corporate Twitter profiles with over a million followers, their growth from September to November 09, the number and regularity of tweets and content […]

Do you need to reference other companies social media campaigns to see what tools they used and what they set out to achieve in order to work out your online strategy? Peter Kim has provided a great list of examples, complied in the last quarter of 2008, so relatively up to date.
‘njoy.

campaigns, mashable, […]

I would like to point you in the direction of this article on econsultancy.com that lists their top 20 free buzz monitoring tools (still) including the likes of Technorati, Google’s alerts (a personal favourite and so easy to set up and manage), howsociable? and Icerocket.
If you haven’t already, please please set up a google alert […]

In November, New York magazine (November 24th 2008, pg 184) dedicated it’s back page to pointing out the similarity between these two political sites;
http://www.netanyahu.org.il, Likud leader’s site.
and
http://www.barakobama.com, President Barak Obama’s election site that has emerged to become an ongoing communication site.
Sadly my hebrew isn’t that good so I can’t register and take a screen grab […]

PR Week’s report on their recent survey on what’s keeping the communications directors awake at night in the 31st Oct 2008 issue, reveals that online is very much an integral part of the job. Here are some of the online highlights:
% of budget spent on digital PR or marketing?
over 50%; only 7% of respondents
11 […]

Just in case you thought you’d seen this before, this tool comes from the Internet -World site - Thanks.

blog, buzz, Internet World

The British are now sending in excess of ONE BILLION texts per week. This is 25% more than this time last year and the same as a whole years worth in 1999!
There are so many tools and applications now available for SMS. I can SMS from skype on my computer and recipients reply […]

It was folklore. Revenue from online ‘would surpass’ off line. And now it is very real. Google’s advertising revenue was larger in Q3 2007 than ITV’s. People paid for more sponsored links than 30 second commericals on prime time TV.
Read times online article that broke the news here.

commericals, Google, ITV, revenue, […]

And the winner is Flickr

Have you received this email? Act now and move your images or lose them on 18th October - a month away.
A lovely polite notice from Yahoo straight to my inbox. What good sense for the business to condense and concentrate on their successful, more consumer regognised asset and service. […]

Apologies for the delay in commenting on the talks we heard at London’s Internet World, but at last the opportunity has arisen to jot down some perceived wisdom and pass it on.
The speakers we enjoyed listening to - who had real news and views to impart - were Ashley Friedlein (CEO of E-consultancy.com) and Loic […]