Monthly Archives: September 2011

90% of Social Media diagrams completely un-understandable

While at a couple of conferences being shown a dazzling array of diagrams from industry folk purporting to show how to approach something in Social Media I was overcome by the desire to say “I don’t understand what that diagram even means.” …

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Urban Outfitters involved in online scandals accused of ripping off designers

                Why isn’t Urban Outfitters doing anything about the number of posts accusing them of  allegedly stealing designs. There are a host of ugly accusations saying they “rip off” designs from the independent crafting …

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Create your own community or use Facebook?

KMP Digitata recently asked the question “Why bother creating a branded social network?” Why indeed Facebook and Twitter are where it’s at right? Why start a community from scratch, they are notoriously hard to get people to join, costly to …

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Twitter: The difference between @replies and mentions

As a social media management agency, we’re unsurprisingly managing more and more of our clients on Twitter. One area that we focus on is ensuring everyone fully understands the difference between @replies and mentions. It sounds pretty simple doesn’t it, …

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Are blog commenting communities gone?

Today is a guest post from Emma Cossey. Emma is a lifestyle blogger and social media journalist. She can often be found tweeting, or writing about social media, web resources and freelancing on her own blog. Is commenting giving way to sharing? …

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