I spied an interesting article in a recent Independent “Viewspaper” section (consumed on the iPad of course) titled “Welcome to Planet Blog: How blogging has taken over the world” that basically said we are all bloggers now. This got me thinking – firstly is this true, and also what is the status of the “pure” bloggers [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 28, 2010
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Tagged blogger, blogging, facebook, Independent, influencer, microblog, speed communications, stephen waddington, twitter, typepad, Viewspaper, visible technologies, wadds, wordpress
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Hat tip to Barry Hurd over at 123 Social Media. He wrote an interesting post on PR companies and blogging. In true social media fashion, I was alerted to the blog via a tweet from Amelia Torode (@nylonmeals of VCCP fame). In the post, Barry asks if current communication firms that are lacking a cohesive social [...]
Over at spotlightideas.co.uk, Eamon Mahony has been burning the midnight oil to compose a list of the top 250 Top 250 Blog Posts in Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR, following on from his earlier list The Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blogs. It is well worth a read – head over to Spotlight Ideas [...]
Another month rolls by, and so it’s time again for the crew at Spinning Around to do the number crunching on the AD Age Power 150 list to see who’s who in the UK blogging scene. We’re happy to say we’ve crept up 4 places on the UK chart to 38, and up 46 to #358 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 1, 2008
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Tagged ad age, ad age power 150, blogging, blogs, marketing, pr blogs, public relations, spinning around, spinning around seventy seven, spotlight ideas, top marketing blogs, top uk blogs, top uk pr blogs, uk top marketing weblogs
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There are lots of “Top 100″ lists floating around at the moment but this one caught my eye, because rather than just being a long list, the crew over at Spotlight Ideas have grouped their list into different genres, so you can scan down the list (presented below) and look at the favourite blogs for [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 13, 2008
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Tagged account planning, advertising, affiliate marketing, blogging, branding, brands, copywriting, creative, customer behaviour, design, digital marketing, lead generation, media, ppc, sales, selling, seo, small business, social media, spotlight ideas, top 20 blogs, trends, word of mouth
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I’m delighted to be involved with this year’s Future of Mobile conference to be held in London on November 17-18th at the Kensington Town Hall. I’ll be in good company as I will be joined by fellow bloggers James Whatley, Vero Pepperell, Helen Keegan, Jemima Kiss and Ewan MacLeod. Also on the platform are Rudy de [...]
The crew over at SPINNING AROUND: SEVENTY SEVEN THINKING OUT LOUD have once again sliced and diced the Ad Age Power 150 at of 1st August to see who’s who in the UK blogging world. I’m delighted to day that London Calling is shooting up the charts (up 4 on the UK chart to #42 and up 135 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 3, 2008
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Tagged ad age, ad age power 150, blog chart, blog ranking, blogging, blogs, london calling, ranking, top uk blogs, top uk marketing blogs, uk blogs
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Tonight I was finishing an upgrade of the blog from wordpress version 2.5.1 to 2.6 and I saw that Nick Burcher had linked to London Calling so I took a closer look. He has compiled the top European media and marketing blogs from the Ad Age Power 150 list compiled by Ad Age. I’m delighted [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 20, 2008
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Tagged ad age power 150, advertising, blog rankings, blogger, blogging, blogs, eu, european blogging, european blogs, marketing, ranking, top 100, top european blogs
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Thanks to everyone for reading London Calling. I am still very humbled that so many people from around the world take the time to check out my blog periodically, and also thrilled that our RSS feed subscribers keep trending up and up. Below is a screen shot of subscriber numbers since mid January 2008. At [...]
UPDATE: February 19th 2008: read the guest post over on MSearchGroove.com I first met Peggy Anne Salz at a mobile search and discovery conference in London in March, 2007 and I have been following her Msearchgroove.com blog and business ever since. I believe the site has quickly become the central hub for all things around [...]
