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How secure is your password?

Found this via @charlesarthur and not sure if it is a phishing site, but what sort of number is 4 vigintillion years? from howsecureismypassword.net

By Andrew Grill | Posted August 4, 2011 in social media | Tagged @charlesarthur, charles arthur, how secure is my password, password, secure | Comments (0)

Battle of the MiFis here at Bletchley Park summer party

Here at the Bletchley Park Summer Party, I opened my laptop to tweet about @peoplebrowsr being on @mashable and I saw the following MiFi networks available. Nice bit of branding from @loudmouthman Read more about MiFis at http://lc.tl/dr

By Andrew Grill | Posted August 4, 2011 in social media | Tagged #bparty, @loudmouthman, Bletchley park, loudmouthman.com, MiFi, Nicholas Butler | Comments (0)

More signs like this please

Seen in Chiswick Park, London. Has made me smile for the last 5 years. Click the image for full size version.

By Andrew Grill | Posted August 2, 2011 in london | Tagged chiswick park, london, signs | Comments (0)

in 2011 search engine technology has come to this?

I’m so glad that in 2011 search engine technology has advanced so far…. I am not for sale. Is this the best we can do in 2011?

By Andrew Grill | Posted August 2, 2011 in advertising | Tagged advertising, adwords, google, seo | Comments (0)

I hope in my lifetime we will see the end of pre-ticked forms

I booked a train with London Midland this morning to attend the Bletchley Park Summer Party next Thursday. On the final confirmation screen I was met with Firstly, I had no option to “tick here” as the lazy marketers at London Midland had done it for me, knowing that unless they pre-ticked it I would [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 29, 2011 in best practice, marketing | Tagged Bletchley park, email spam, go-ahead, goahead, lazy marketing, London Midland, marketing best practice, pre-tick | Comments (0)

Huge QR code seen in London street – is this the future?

I saw this in a street in SOHO in London, a huge QR code hung on a building. As I took this photo, I overheard some people nearby saying “So what, you just take a picture of it? That’s wicked.” Following my tweet about this, Raimo van der Klein (CEO of Augmented Reality leader Layar) tweeted [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 19, 2011 in mobile | Tagged AR, Augmented Reality, Layar, mobile, qr code, qr code skeptic, Raimo van der Klein, rhymo, social media, SOHO | Comments (0)

PeopleBrowsr UK is hiring! We are looking for super smart account managers

PeopleBrowsr is hiring in the UK! We need smart and social media savvy Account Managers to join our growing UK team. Details below – and please pass onto someone you think might be a good fit. Position: Account Manager (2), full-time positions Location: London Compensation: Competitive We want an Account Manager who understands the social [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted July 18, 2011 in social media | Tagged Christabelle Tani, collective intelligence, job, Michelle Macarouna, PeopleBrowsr, peoplebrowsr hiring, peoplebrowsr uk, peoplebrowsr uk jobs, platform3, research.ly, social media analytics, social media jobs, social media uk, uk social media job | Comments (1)

How Twitter needs to walk a fine line with advertisers

A recent scoop from Tim Bradshaw (@tim) at the Financial Times during #canneslions last week pointed to Twitter taking a bolder stance with advertising on the 5 year old micro blogging site. Quoting from Tim’s article According to three people familiar with the situation, Twitter’s plans under consideration would see “promoted tweets” appear in their [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted June 26, 2011 in twitter | Tagged @katies, @tonyw, ad relevance, cannes lions, canneslions, color.com, Facebook.Facebook ad revenue, financial times, FT, Katie Jacobs Stanton, promoted accounts, promoted trends, relevant advertising, social media advertising, tim bradshaw, Tony Wang, tweet deck, tweet relevance, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter ad revenue, twitter ad reveue, twitter ads, twitter advertising.promoted tweets | Comments (9)

Screen sharing shoot out and why I am now using join.me

Working in the social media analytics space for the last 2+ years, one of the most important productivity tools has become the screen sharing program. If you cannot be in the same room (or country) as a prospective client, then the next best thing is sharing your screen with them in real time so they [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted June 25, 2011 in productivity | Tagged cisco, citrix, glance, ignition, join.me, joinme, logmein, PeopleBrowsr, productivity tools, screen sharing, share my screen, webex | Comments (5)

London 2012 ticket process vs Sydney 2000 games

I am very fortunate to be in the position that I will get to see two Olympic games in my lifetime, having lived in Sydney during the 2000 games, and now living with my family in London. At the 2000 games, I was a Volunteer, and saw the opening ceremony twice! Once during the dress [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted June 24, 2011 in olympics | Tagged 2000, 2012, 2012 tickets, Atlanta 1996, Atlanta Games, Atlanta Olympics, BellSouth, london, London 2012, London 2012 Olympic Games, London 2012 tickets, olympic games, Olympic volunteer, olympics, sydney 2000 | Comments (4)

PeopleBrowsr Names Andrew Grill as the UK CEO

Strategic Executive Joins San Francisco Based High-Tech Start Up London, England (June 7, 2011) – PeopleBrowsr, the high-tech social analytics and engagement company, has appointed Andrew Grill as CEO of UK operations. Grill joins PeopleBrowsr from Visible Technologies, where he was Head of International Client Strategy. Well-known amongst digital strategists and social media agencies, Grill [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted June 7, 2011 in social media | Tagged 1000 days of twitter data, @andrewgrill, andrew grill, collective intelligence, Fox, Honda, Jodee Rich, Kodak, People Browser, People Browsr, Peoplebrowser, PeopleBrowsr, PeopleBrowsr API, PeopleBrowsr Labs, PeopleBrowsr UK CEO, research.ly, researchly, san francisco startup, SAP, social media, social media command center, social media command centre, twitter api, twitter firehose, twitter UK, visible technologies, vodafone, Westfield | Comments (4)

What brands can learn from the UK #superinjunction issue

Those of you in the UK will know that over the last few weeks, twitter has made the front page of the UK newspapers as part of the #superinjunction issue. While I was in the US a few weeks ago, I was asked constantly about the difference between the US and UK adoption of social [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted May 18, 2011 in social media | Tagged blogs, celebrities, facebook, Fred Goodwin, gagging order, Jeremy Hunt, Parliamentary Privelidge, privacy, social media, social network, super injunction, super-injucntion, superinjunction, Tiger Woods, twitter, UK courts, UK laws, uk privacy laws | Comments (1)

MEF Global 2011 and MEF CEO Summit in London 6th & 7th July

MEF calls the expanding mobile ecosystem to congregate in London on July 6 & 7 for 2 days of insights, networking and celebration ‘MEF Global 2011: Mobile Content & Commerce’ event launched MEF CEO Summit & Ruby Wax-hosted annual Meffys set new bar for industry’s top mobile content and commerce players April 21, 2011, London [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted May 10, 2011 in mobile | Tagged Hotwire, Hotwire PR, MEF, MEF CEO Summit, MEF Global 2011, meffys, meffys 2011, mobile awards, mobile entertainment forum, Morgan Evans, Rimma Perelmuter | Comments (0)

I remain a QR code skeptic – here is why

I am probably one of the world’s greatest advocates for anything mobile, except for one thing. QR codes, mobile barcodes – call them what you may. You see, in my eyes if you put a barrier in the way of a consumer redeeming something, or using a new technology then it will never really take [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted May 6, 2011 in social media | Tagged blackberry, columbia, Fendi, high street, McDonald barcode, mobil ebardodes, nfc, NFC FAIL, normob, qr code, QR codes, qr fail, QR reader, qr skeptic, sceptic, skeptic, times, TV ad, waitrose, wave and pay | Comments (32)

Outdoor advertising is not dead. Outdoor + social + mobile = win

I’m a big fan of outdoor advertising (hey I even used it to propose to my now wife in Sydney back in 2004 using 3 Vespa scooters towing signs each spelling out marry-me-Samantha and following her around Sydney during her morning walk to the harbour bridge). As recent visitors to the Royal wedding would have [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted May 5, 2011 in advertising | Tagged advertising, bacardi, bacardi facebook, bacardi status update, Clear Channel, google, google voice search, great outdoor campaigns, Havas media, JCDecaux, london, london underground, look media, mobile, mobile advertising, ocean outdoor, ooh, out of home, outdoor, propoal, royal wedding.london visitors, scooter proposal, social, social media agency, socialyse, vespa proposal sydney, wedding proposal, Westfield, Westfield London | Comments (2)

Radian6 acquisition – an endorsement of social media business value today

Full disclosure: I head international sales for Visible Technologies from their London office. Stephen Waddington (@wadds) said in a tweet this morning that he had gone back and re-read my Social CRM post from January on the news that Salesforce.com has bought Visible competitor, Radian6. Smart man is Stephen, because he linked my discussion about what [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted March 31, 2011 in social media | Tagged enterprise social media, kelly pennock, radian 6, Radian6, Radian6 acquisition, salesforce, salesforce buys radian6, salesforce.com, social intelligence, social media, social media monitoring, stephen waddington, visible intelligence, visible technologies, wadds | Comments (0)

Online Marketing Conference and Exhibition 2011 review

I was honoured to be asked to present a keynote at this year’s Online Marketing Conference & Exhibition held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, within the University of Nottingham’s campus. This post has been composed and published on the train back from Nottingham to London (thanks to East Midlands Trains free WiFi). The event [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted March 21, 2011 in social media | Tagged #omce2012, about.com, AT&TNottingahm, backtweets, conference, DK, east midlands conference centre, emcc, flickr, Getclicky, gogle alerts, google, google profile, Graham Jones, grahamjones, iPad, klout, left prefrontal cortex, managefilter, mediasnackers, mobile, peerindex, prefontal cortex, slideshare, social, social media, social networking, Tippex, tweetdeck, University of Nottingham, url shortener, visible intelligence, visible technologies | Comments (2)

A big week for the iPad in more ways than one

This week has been a big week for the iPad. Not only did Steve Jobs launch the iPad2 on March 2nd, there has been a lot of discussion in the UK about iPadvertising as well as how iPad publishers are being treated by Apple. Image credit: Reuters. I first used the term “iPadvertising” on my [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted March 4, 2011 in iPad | Tagged 30% apple cut, apple, brands, econsultancy, Forrester, Forrester iPad, Forrester ipad2, FT ipad, FT iPad app, iAd2, impedence, iPad, ipad advertising, ipad2, ipadvertissing, mobile ads, mobile advertising, mobile operators, New Media Age, nma, premium rate SMS, Project magazine, PRSMS, publisher, Quattro Wireless, Sean King, Seven publishing, Steve Jobs, TV-Radio-Outdoor-Web-Mobile-iPad-Social, Virgin Project, walled garden | Comments (4)

Best practice for social media in a crisis. Case study: Vodafone UK

Last March, a major Vodafone outage in the UK caused by a break-in by thieves at their Basingstoke facility highlighted how social media can and should be used in a crisis. I am a loyal Vodafone customer (@vodafoneUK would probably call me an honorary Ambassador), so while the outage was annoying, I am not looking to leave [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted March 1, 2011 in crisis management, social media | Tagged @vodafoneUK, basingstoke, Basingstoke break-in, basingstoke facility, basingstoke issues, crisis management, crisis management case study, crisis update, euro star, Eurostar, eurostar twitter, Gatwick airport, gatwick airport closed, gatwick airport twitter, gatwick snow, gatwick twiter updates, gatwick twitter, LGW, social media crisis, social media.crisis management, twitter crisis management, twitter tax, VF UK, VFUK, vodafone, vodafone basingstoke vodafone break-in, vodafone best practice, vodafone break-in, vodafone breakin, vodafone crisis, Vodfone, war room | Comments (8)

Visible Intelligence tool now includes powerful influencer analysis

Nice to finally be in a position to talk about one of my favourite clients, John Lewis, included here in the release about the new Visible Intelligence influencer tool launched today. Contact me if you would like to see it in action. BELLEVUE, Wash., February 24, 2011 To help enterprises unlock the business value of their [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 24, 2011 in social media | Tagged Clay McDaniel, competitive intelligence, Emma McLaughlin, enterprise social media, Home Depot, influencer, influencer identification, Jason Shockley, John Lewis, kelly pennock, klout, peer index, postrank, social intelligence, Spring Creek Group, topic discovery, visible, visible intelligence | Comments (3)

HISTORY channel teams with Foursquare in London

Hot in the heels of my Foursquare Fatigue post, the HISTORY channel in the UK has launched an initiative with Foursquare to help people uncover 600 historic sites in London. I attended the launch this morning at the tower of London (and in doing so picked up the HISTORY ♥ London badge). Tom Davidson, who [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 17, 2011 in foursquare, location based offers | Tagged AETN, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursquare, HISTORY, History 4sq, history foursquare, histoy channel, lbs, location, Location Based Offers, Tom Davidson | Comments (5)

Guest post on econsultancy blog titled Can “iPadvertising” save mobile advertising

I’ve just had my first guest post published on the very popular econsultancy blog. As the article was written specifically for them, I won’t be displaying it here, except for the following extract. The iPad provides a much richer experience and real-estate than the standard mobile phone or even the iPhone. New iPad advertising formats, dubbed [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 16, 2011 in iPad | Tagged blog, Can 'iPadvertising' save mobile advertising?, econsultancy, econsultancy blog, iPad, ipad-vertising, ipadvertising | Comments (1)

Mobile advertising’s success lies on the second screen not the main screen

I have Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to thank for a new analogy to debunk pundit thinking on mobile advertising. Yesterday in Barcelona, Dick gave a great speech at the annual Mobile World Congress. You can watch his 30 minute speech online, where “registration” (for spam collection) is required but it is free. Dick said that [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 15, 2011 in mobile advertising | Tagged Addicted to connectivity, apple, barcelona, dell streak, Deloite report, Deloitte, Deloitte Addicted to connectivity, Dick Costolo, dickc, econsultancy, Galaxy tablet, google, iads, iPad, ipad-vertising, ipadvertising, main screen, mobile advertising, mobile world congress, Motorola Xoom, MWC11, Perspectives on the global mobile consumer, Samsung Galaxy, second screen, Seeker Wireles, techcrunch, Twitter CEO | Comments (5)

Sanyo not renewing their Piccadilly Circus sign after 33 years

Land Securities, owner of the iconic Piccadilly Circus advertising sign location reports that Sanyo will not be renewing their spot after having a sign at the current location since 1994. This is apparently the first time a sign slot has become available in 33 years. I have photographed the signs over the years, and you [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 14, 2011 in advertising | Tagged coke, land securities, neon signs, outdoor, outdoor advertising, piccadilly circus, piccadilly circus lights, piccadilly circus neon sign, piccadilly lights, piccadilly sign, sanyo, tdk, twitter, twitterfall, twittterwall | Comments (7)

UK MPs want iPads to “reduce printing costs”

According to an article in the Independent newspaper over the weekend, UK politicians want an iPad to “reduce printing costs”. According to the report A new information and communications technology strategy, recently agreed by officials on Parliament’s Management Board, included the following imaginary scenario entitled “a possible MP’s story in 2015″: “As I travel down [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 14, 2011 in iPad | Tagged Anna Bligh, COAG, Council of Australian Governments, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Medvedev ipad, Independent, iPad, Julia Gillard, Julia Gillard iPad, the australian, UK MP, UK parliament | Comments (1)

Location Based Offers (LBO) – valid business model or just more L-BS?

Following on from my recent post on “Foursquare fatigue”, and the recent launch of Facebook deals in the the UK, I thought it would be a good time to look at these initiatives, from both the consumer angle as well as the retailer. Anecdotal discussions with a number of retailers as well as consumers point [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 13, 2011 in location based offers, location based services | Tagged AdMarvel, Alistair Goodman, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursquare, gps, groupon, LBO, lbs, location, Location Based Offers, location bs, m&s, marks & sparks, marks and spencer, mobile coupons, o2, O2 media, O2 more, placecast, Sean Gregory, social media week, starbucks, starbucks lbs, starbucks location | Comments (6)

Mobile internet growth strong in the UK says Vodafone

Vodafone has declared Britain the “most digitally advanced” country in Europe according to an article in the Telegraph. Vittorio Colao, chief executive, said Britain’s “digital citizens” are much more up to date with the latest technology than mainland Europeans. Vodafone said 70pc of new customers signing up for a contract in the UK demand a [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 4, 2011 in mobile internet | Tagged daily telegraoh, facebook, foursquare, infinite, mobile broadband, mobile social, mobile social telstra, myspace, networking, one plan, rupert neate, social networks, telegraph, three, twitter, Vittorio Colao, vodafone | Comments (1)

Great example of Australian politician using social media for election campaigning

I noted with interest a new website haveabeerwithmike.com.au which has been launched to support Mike Baird (@mikebairdmp), the current Member for the Seat of Manly, one of Sydney’s beach suburbs. In the great Aussie tradition of “having a beer”, Mike not only invites you to book him for a beer/coffee/chat via the website, but also [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 1, 2011 in campaigning, elections, social media | Tagged @mikebairdmp, elections, facebook, hustings, Kristina Keneally, Liberal Party, march 2011 election, member for Manly, Mike Baird, Mike Baird MP, NSW, nsw election, NSW Labor Government, social media campaigning, social media election, twitter | Comments (4)

Foursquare fatigue and what it means for Facebook deals

I’m a big fan of foursquare, I always have been but even I am getting a little fatigued. All that checking in with no real benefit is starting to make me question why I use foursquare at all. With the recent announcement that Facebook Deals is now available in the UK, it is worth looking [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted February 1, 2011 in facebook, location based services | Tagged 4sq, Emily White, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursqauare fatigue, foursquare, foursquare London office, foursquare office, groupon, Joanna Shields, lbs, location based advertising, mobile, mobile social networking, normob, social media, the future of foursquare, twitter, twitter London office | Comments (9)

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