June 2007 - Posts

• Links on social networks - class-ism, age-ism, left behind-ism and more

  A clutch of interesting links on social networks from the weekend and Monday: Danah Boyd is academic about class-ism on Facebook and MySpace - summarized on BBC Online. Tom Murphy starts to hang with the kidz on Facebook. He has Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 25 June 2007 17:16 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Media, Trust & Ethics

• Did Microsoft pay star bloggers for endorsements?

  The story so far. A small storm erupts on Friday night around a Microsoft ad campaign running across Federated Media's syndicated blogger sites (FM is kind of an ad sales clearing house that sells space for a group of independent Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 23 June 2007 13:38 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, Media

• PR dogs need to learn these new tricks

  Following a series of gripey sounding posts (here, here and here - and there have been others) about the failings of PR as an industry to get its act together in an environment fundamentally changed by social media, here are a couple of Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 22 June 2007 21:51 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, PR

• MPs to enjoy the guilty pleasures of a wireless world

  Members of Parliament may soon get to experience the guilty pleasures enjoyed by company office workers in meetings - IMing each other with gossip, or simply scanning the internet for something (anything) more interesting - while ostensibly they Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 21 June 2007 08:37 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Measurement

• Do corporate blogs really reduce the volume of email traffic?

  In an article today CIO Magazine offers up Seven Reasons for your Company to Start an Internal Blog. My first reaction was: how'd do you mean, start? But on reflection they are right. They are speaking to the mass majority. And the majority of Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 20 June 2007 21:56 by Steve Ellis | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• Walking the walk: Jeremiah

  True to form, in recognizing twelve months of his Web Strategist blog, Jeremiah Owyang shares all those private little datapoints about the site. This isn't surprising because Jeremiah shares a lot. Jeremiah's site is one of my very few must Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 20 June 2007 21:17 by Steve Ellis | 1 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• More lessons for PRs

  Michael Arrington of TechCrunch vents here - a little over the top perhaps, doubtless it was a bad day - but it shows the need to get the details right, or run the risk of exposure. A little while back now, but worth adding to the list, Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 June 2007 08:57 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: PR

• The value of anonymity in blogging

  Follow up to the previous post, I am just getting introduced to The Friendly Ghost's blog and so far I like it. I also like ..the World's Leading... which makes me wonder about the pros and cons of anonymity in blogging. These two seem to handle Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 12 June 2007 10:33 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• The tyranny of league tables (for bloggers)

  The Friendly Ghost has published a list PowerPR Index of bloggers. We are way down (I assume it might be us down there at #65?). TFG's list owes its heritage to Todd Andrlik and his Power 150 Top Marketing Blogs. Again, we don't feature, even Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 12 June 2007 10:02 by Steve Ellis | 3 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Media, PR

• Social media is not just for kids

  The excellent Jeff James has spent the past week or two talking readers through his Facebook learning experience.  In today's post he explains far better than I could why social networks are not just for kids/students.  I mostly work Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 11 June 2007 19:13 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Trust & Ethics

• Metia on top of the world?

  Not sure if that's a geographically accurate statement - Metia on top of the world - but its fun to see our new logo up at the North Pole. Our London office has been helping three friends of the company in their bid to raise cash for a male cancer Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 07 June 2007 08:03 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Measurement, Media, PR

• Which bloggers are evolving into mainstream commentators?

  Interesting to see Hugh MacLeod was invited along to the brand launch of the London 2012 Olympics. Hitherto, I've only noticed bloggers being invited along to incestuously tech-related Blog Opportunities, What does that say about the transition Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 06 June 2007 17:02 by Steve Ellis | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging