Social Media
New Google Internet Stats
Launched today but hidden away Google Internet Stats is a neat little site to back up those all important presentations/proposals. Five main areas are covered (with room for expansion) and the opportunity to submit your own stats. Originally from Read Write Web via twitter Read More …
Asda – The Green Room
A week or so ago Asda introduced The Green Room, a place for ‘colleagues’ to share what’s happening around the business. Not much fanfare that I noticed externally at least that I spotted anyway. What’s interesting is the openness that surrounds the project as wel as how important it is that colleagues have a voice to interact with the business. One thing that seems to be missing Read more …
Up the Albion
Here’s a newish caff, the Albion. Part of Terence Conran’s Boundary project. Continuing the trend of taking back Britishness from the far right, tea is served with crocheted tea cosy, cutlery in syrup cans and water in a tin pitcher. Definitely one to add to our next Retail Safari. On a more social media type front they use Baker Tweet to let their locals know what’s coming out of Read more …
Twitter etc as video
If you don’t really get Twitter or crowdsourcing or facebook any of that social media malarky here’s a video that shows how it works … Originally from Seth Read More …
Thinking ahead (or not)
Two stories that prove the effectiveness or otherwise of engaging with the online community. From Mashable: Dirk-Willem van Gulik is to join the BBC. From everywhere today including the BBC: Facebook to pull Scrabulous. Read More …
The BBC goes social
You can now bookmark news items on the BBC on your favourite social bookmarking/sharing website. More here. Read More …
A bit more about Social Commerce
We’re designing 4 websites at the moment (at the last count) that all include some sort of social commerce and social network, so here’s some timely research from e-consultancy. My key outtakes … More than half of UK online customers say reviews are extremely or very important in making an online purchase. More than half of all online sellers (51%) consider User Generated Content Read more …
