Entries from January 2010

The least social media you need for a campaign

January 26th, 2010 by Matt Rebeiro · 6 Comments
In Branded content · Online PR · Social media

I’ve been considering the very least amount of social media a brand needs to run a campaign effectively. I have decided it requires three elements:

A blog
Facebook
Twitter

Why these three? I’m glad you asked…

A blog to post developing stories about the campaign and share any assets from the campaign (video, audio, images) as well as a place [...]

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BBC open the greatest virtual museum in the world

January 21st, 2010 by simonlp · No Comments
In Events · Product launch · Sharing · Stories

You may have recently seen a stylistic trailer on BBC TV for their “History of the World in 100 Objects” initiative - the one with a man jumping over a bull…
Anyway, the supporting website went live a couple of days ago, and they’d done enough to compel me to take a visit.
We talk a lot [...]

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Twinings miss a trick and fail to tea-tweet

January 19th, 2010 by Matt Rebeiro · 2 Comments
In Influencer marketing · Measurement

Sometimes, dear interwebs, I despair of tea companies. Today my tea-company despair cannon’s two barrels are both firmly fixed at Twinings.
As I gazed out through the Twitterverse I spied the following tweet:
Free tea? Yes puuurlease http://bit.ly/6RuDyB - warning - it is mainly fruit/’erbal teas. Sigh. (Tweeted by @HJonesy)

I duly clicked on the link and ended [...]

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Microsites: RIP

January 18th, 2010 by Matt Rebeiro · 4 Comments
In Blogging · Media · Social media

Has anybody else noticed the quiet and utterly ignored death of the microsite? No, you probably haven’t and nor had I until this morning when it hit me: Facebook killed the microsite. Killed it dead. Right in the face. With a chainsaw (ok, probably not with a chainsaw…).
With the advent of the Facebook ‘fan page’ [...]

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Sourcing social fuel

January 6th, 2010 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
In Buzz & sentiment analysis · Creative ideas · KUDOS · Stories

I’ve been thinking about the type of stimulus or fuel we use to develop ideas for social activities. I think there are two places to look:
1. Resources created within an organisation as a result of product development and business management.
These resources can be reused, re-purposed or re-assembled - and then shared with media, customers or [...]

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