OH: Political dirty tricks merchant bragging on a train

In a further blow to the credibility of the Lib Dem campaign, Mr O’Brien read out a series of Twitter postings by Daily Mirror journalist Kevin Maguire, in which Maguire relates overhearing on a train a man boasting that he had “got Evening Standard to claim Lab has secret plans to shut Kingston Hospital.”
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We Are Social’s genius Marmite social media campaign

via wearesocial.net
Genius, stylishly executed.
Hats off…

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Q: What’s the number one thing people want their browser to do?

A: Block ads.
Sometimes it’s worth reminding ourselves of the simple truths about online media and marketing.
Like the fact that, given the choice, a lot of people don’t want banner ads, pop-ups and other sundry promotional interruptions getting in the way of whatever they are dong.
I was reminded of this when Google kindly turned on the ability to [...]

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Banning LinkedIn in banks?: Regulators can’t move at web speed..

If you’re a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you’ll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting the rules [...]

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Nice quote about writing from Alain De Botton…

Writing opens up the otherwise unusual prospect of being violently disliked by strangers & training oneself not to mind. Via twitter.com
One of the rules I put up front in Me & My Web Shadow is “Get a thicker skin”.
It may be fewer people than read one of De Botton’s [...]

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Vertical airships

About as far from Ryanair as air travel will ever get… 
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Lovely network analysis visualisation of the US senate

BARACK OBAMA’S visit last week to the Republicans’ issues retreat in Baltimore was a pretty daring move. To envision how daring, it’s useful to take a look at this visualisation of the Senate’s social graph over the past 19 years, posted back in May by Andrew Odewahn, an information-design expert.
U.S. [...]

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Tempted to write about the iPad. Please consult this flow-chart http://bit.ly/bAudj3

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“i” symbol will raise fears about advertising, but increase web literacy too…

The icon will be used in online ads that go to users based on demographics.

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A mockup of an ad that includes the Power-I icon.

Trying to ward off regulators, the advertising industry has agreed on a [...]

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By me on the iCrossing Connect blog: How engagement measurement will change the world

Last Friday I presented at the NMAlive event* on Online Engagement Demysitified event, running with the hopeful title “How Engagement Measurement Will Change the World” (see slides above).
As ever, it was a good opportunity to revisit the theme of engagement measurement and think about how we talk about it at iCrossing.
We’ve effectively spent the last [...]

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