Category Archives: Social Media for Business

Social Media and Film (you guessed it, Part 1)

I have been doing a lot of research on the combination of my two favourite media: film and Social Media. In this Mini-Series I will introduce you to some of my findings. Today: Social Media and the Independent Filmmaker. A success story. Somebody tells somebody, and they tell somebody else, and they tell somebody… it’s [...]

We’ve got the power!

Facebook users are flexing their muscles. I have already reported about Facebook groups; this one seems to have achieved what they wanted! Students who are customers of HSBC in the UK have formed a Facebook group called Stop the Great HSBC Graduate Rip-Off!!!, which at the time of writing had 5,983 members,  to protest against [...]

The taste of butterbeer

For those of you who miraculously didn’t know yet: Warner Bros. Entertainment and Universal Orlando Resort are building a Harry Potter theme park in Florida that is due to open in 2009/2010. Giant nerd that I am I’ll so be there! They are doing a great job in building a park for the fans, using [...]

Still growing!

I have just been back to the Satay Kingdom Appreciation Group on Facebook to see what is happening over there (click here to visit it if you have a Facebook account), and I am impressed: it keeps growing at a staggering rate! At the moment it has 545 members (compared to 423 a couple of [...]

Social Media is working even when you aren’t looking (a guest posting by Matthew Kerr)

If you’re a company, band, organisation whatever, you want people to love your brand, message, products, whatever it is that you do. You know this already. If you’re reading this page, you most likely have caught on to the fact that social media is an incredibly powerful tool for brand immersion – getting people to [...]

Online Archives – deactivating the “data ticking time bomb”?

I read this article on the BBC website. It’s all about a problem that we might be facing sooner rather than later: the “data ticking time bomb”. The changes that are happening with such a brisk pace in technology seem to be making it harder rather than easier for us to access data that was [...]

What has become of me? Ode to Amazon, Pt.2.

Remember Ode to Amazon, Pt1 (over in my Captain’s Log category)? When I wrote that I almost became a consumer evangelist for them. Not a fully-fledged one, but at least a passionate customer spreading the word of love, which nearly qualifies as evangelism. Let me elaborate how… but first (for those of you new to [...]

What is Social Media going to do for my bottom line?

Yes, I am cutting right to the chase here… This is a question I get asked very often. The problem is, that there simply is no easy way to predict how implementing Social Media in your communication strategy is going to affect your bottom line. I am using the following formula to predict what a [...]