Over the weekend, Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos may have helped keep a Florida teen from committing suicide. A teen neither had ever met. Continue reading ‘Twitter Saves Lives (?)’
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You didn’t misread the headline… I’m deadly serious, after 23 years of spending millions on Super Bowl advertising Pepsi has decided to opt out this year in favour of putting their money into a social media project they’re calling, The Pepsi Refresh Project. Continue reading ‘Pepsi Ditches the Super Bowl…’
Obama
H1N1
Stimulus
Vampire
If, hundreds of years from now, some lucky anthropologist were to stumble across the above list…what do you think they’d make of 2009? Hmm. Deadly virus mutates online swallowing up the world’s first internet President in 140-character bites? It’s interesting this – tracking our word trends. There’s lots to keep a handle on too…apparently English gains almost 15 new words a day.
You can find out more here at the Global Language Monitor. They’ve got 2009’s ‘most used words’ ranked for you. And it goes well beyond the top 5 I’ve given you, above.
Clever colleague of mine just remarked that if we all wrote nothing but “Obama” on our blogs and Twitter feeds until the end of December…we might well turn the tide.
Who’s in?
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect back on what’s gone before. If you’re winding down at work and look for a 5 (45) minute diversion, check out WhattheTrend.com for tracking and analysis of tons of this past year’s trends…intersting: between “BBQ,” “TGIF” and “Swine Flu,” which do you think ranked most active in 2009?
Tired of harbouring your deepest darkest secrets? Looking to confess? Well Twitter can help!
Secret Tweet (secrettweet.com) lets you to tell all (in 111 words or less of course) anonymously and instantly and receive support and sometimes helpful advice from complete strangers. It’s incredible to see so many people posting their most intimate thoughts from: “I’m slowly and carefully planning how to leave my husband of 20 years, while he’s planning the next phase in the garden” to “I am the one who reported you to child protective services. You WON’T hurt her anymore.”
The perfect place to unearth the plot for your next screen play …
Ok, so I’m sure you’re sick of all this Twitter excitement, but you have to admit; to Tweet or not to Tweet is no longer in question…. only why you didn’t Tweet before…. Continue reading ‘How do you organise a protest in 2009? Use Twitter of course…’
Twitter has been dominating the news lately. As the latest social network to explode into the mainstream, it seems that everyone and everybrand is having a crack at tweeting.
There’s been a fair amount of floundering as brands struggle to find their feet. Twitter is (if you’ll forgive the strained metaphor) the world’s largest cocktail party. 20 million people trading quips, composing one-liners and passing on gossip. Interrupting the conversation to sell potato chips is, at the very least, socially awkward.
The first official scientific experiment to be conducted using Twitter starts tomorrow!
The subject is remote viewing which is defined as: the attempt to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means or extra-sensory perception. Continue reading ‘the science of twitter’
Pizza Hut is advertising this week for a social media correspondent. The “twintern” will be responsible for chronicling (in 140 words or less, of course) what’s going on at Pizza Hut HQ in Dallas, as well as monitoring other social media for mentions of the company, in a defensive capacity. Continue reading ‘Twintern wanted’
Ok, I don’t Twitter. I admit it. I know everyone in our industry who claims to be “down” with the “new media” swears sideways that this little social networking / micro-blogging tool is to die for. Must have. But I’ve been hesitant. Continue reading ‘Tasty tweets’
Contagious magazine’s top ideas, trends and innovations from last year: a bloody good read for anyone who fancies a summing up of all that was gorgeous in 2008. Continue reading ‘Most Contagious 2008′
The concept of electronic social networking was suggested back in the 1990’s. Innovations to earlier networking services helped along early birds like MySpace, which rapidly became a global phenomenon. The of course 2004 saw the launch of the all-time favourite Facebook from the dorm room of Harvard Graduate, Mark Zuckerberg. It was instantly catapulted to popularity thanks to the incorporation of “externally-developed add-on applications” which in turn “enabled the graphing of a user’s own social network – thus linking social networks and social networking.” Largest and fastest growing site in the world, like *that*… Continue reading ‘The Future of Social Networking’
I just stumbled across a new campaign website for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is running for Prime Minister of Israel.
You might not be able to read Hebrew but you can have a quick look at http://ru.netanyahu.org.il/. Continue reading ‘Obamitation? Israeli candidate copies US campaign site…’
