Category Archives: social media

Facebook Fandom Trends Report #1

Asi has become a fan of….fan pages. So he gone and looked at the 100 most fanned people and ‘things’. (Note: due to serious shortage of time, for this report I don’t offer any analysis, just an overview of the facebook stars. More on this to follow).

Two men, two American heroes, clearly dominate the [...]

Hippy Marketing

One of the loveliest trends that came with the revolution in social media and it’s implications for modern marketing is what you an call the emergence of hippy-marketing.
I’m not talking about new business opportunities for modern tree huggers and ethically conscious consumers but rather about the fact that as the shift in balance of [...]

Orange: I am

The Orange I am everyone campaign is up and running (TV, outdoor, print) and we just launched I am Jont.
We teamed up with Jont, a charismatic, brutally optimistic unsigned singer songwriter to take Unlit, his and Dave’s heartwarming, life-affirming initiative of intimate house gigs on the road in the UK this summer. Orange [...]

Sitting on a hill eating my hat…

Yes, yes I’m on Twitter (If I wore a hoodie I’d be covering my face with it in shame). Damn that social pressure. But I guess that after my hasty, bossy sneer back in Feb 2007, I ought to explain why I finally broke and got on board…
The shortest answer is that I was [...]

Girls Power

Emotional typography. The combination of music and written words to create a compelling story.
This lovely typo-video is part of a new campaign to empower adolescent girls in the developing world, “Because when adolescent girls in the developing world have a chance, they can be the most powerful force of change for themselves, their families, [...]

Live music lovers, unite!

The balloon race is over, so it’s a good time to introduce to you a new community project we just launched for Orange on Last.FM, probably my favourite social web platform.

A bit of a background:
Live music scene is in the middle of a boom period with a higher than ever number of sold-out gigs [...]

(LIVE) Citizen Journalism

It seems like the streaming live video from your mobile to the web is getting momentum is going to be the next big thing in user generated content. The opportunities here are endless. I’m less enthuse about lifestreaming but much more about worldstreaming.
Do you remember life without Youtube? Thats what I think we will [...]

An ode to the masters of online commenting

In the world of internet debate, there’s one tactic so fearsome, so deadly, only the masters of online commenting dare wield it….

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Reaction wall

Video reactions are one of the most fascinating things on youtube. It’s a new form of dialouge, self-to-other expression platform which can take many forms and shapes depends on the context. I find this conversational form an anthropological goldmine. One video can spark a vast range of human communicative behaviours, from rant to praise, from [...]

Brands presence on SNS is a bit like the emperor’s new clothes

I’ve been doing some research recently into brands presence/activities on social media platforms and while I’m hoping to write something more structured in the near future, I wanted to share some early thoughts (it as a public note to self as much as it is, hopefully, a conversation starter).
On and all marketing activities [...]

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