Hello everyone! Please check out this week’s social news…. From Gordon Ramsay to songs in space… Partnerships and Acquisitions Yahoo announces a partnership with Twitter- What will this mean? It will bring real time tweets from politicians, celebrities and alike straight into the Yahoo news content. Great news for Yahoo. This comes a week after … Continue reading »
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Social Media Newsletter 10/05/2013
Good afternoon all. We have everything from Alex Ferguson to Ryan Gosling this week. Check it out Alex Ferguson has retired. 1.4 million mentions of it on Twitter in the first hour – by comparison it took four hours for the death of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher to top one million. Check out more … Continue reading »
In the outside world
Links courtesy Anjali Ramachandran, Head of Innovation. — A quick set of links this week – happy reading! Social innovation The World Wildlife Fund sporadically changed the colour of a football pitch from green to brown during a match to convey the importance of stopping deforestation. Hats off to the Guardian for launching Witness, sponsored … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 19/04/2013
In the world of social media this week we have some big announcements from Twitter, Zuckerberg pimping out Facebook Home, LinkedIn mobile ads and the best 6 second films you will ever see courtesy of Vine. Twitter have introduced a potential game changer in terms of advertising – keyword targeting in timelines. This means advertisers … Continue reading »
In the outside world: 12th April
Hope you’re all enjoying the slightly warmer (i.e warmer by 2 degrees C) weather we’re having, never mind the rain! Think about getting the community to participate in what you do Maes is a Belgian beer brand. It is also the 3rd most popular last name in the country. Despite that, they’re giving away free … Continue reading »
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Natasha Halhead is attending Google’s Squared course. This is Part 3 of her experience, read Part 1 and Part 2. — We had an inspirational talk from John Willshire in our first week – you may recognise him as the ex-Head of Innovation here at PHD or in his words ‘the excitable Scottish innovation one’. … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 05/04/2013
Hello all, I hope you have all had a fantastic week! The introduction of Google Nose should make it that little bit better… Facebook have launched Facebook Home- Facebook is not building a phone and it is not building an operating system- having said that it is basically turning an Android phone into a … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 22/03/2013
Hello everyone. This week we have stories of Kate Upton, Google Glass and farting. (Not at the same time) The power of social media. One lady named and shamed a crude joker at a tech conference by tweeting a picture of him. This spiralled MASSIVELY out of control. Facebook Now you can pay to … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 15/03/2013
This week we have everything from boxing trolls, to social cars and a Pepsi prank. Twitter will launch a music service next month. Twitter supposedly acquired We Are Hunted last year and is using its technology to creat a new stand alone music app, which is rumoured to be named Twitter Music. The app will … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 08/03/2013
There is a HUGE amount of really cool campaigns this week. It is all definitely worth a gander! Network changes Last night Facebook announced changes to their newsfeed and surprise, surprise it has given more focus to images with a very minimalist look. There are now also multiple versions of News Feed (music, pages, photos, … Continue reading »
