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
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Posted May 5, 2011
in advertising
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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
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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
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Posted March 21, 2011
in social media
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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
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So many things in the early part of January are pointing to 2011 being a serious year for social media, and possibly the year when it comes of age and is plumbed into everything in a powerful and meaningful way. From where I sit at Visible Technologies, where I run international sales (everything outside of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 27, 2011
in social CRM, social media
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Tagged crm, facebook, Saints, salesforce, salesforce.com, social, social intelligence, social listening, social media, social media credentials, social media handles, social media monitoring, SPSC, St Peter's Adelaidde, St Peter's College, St Peter's Old Scholar's Association, twitter, visible technologies
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Taptu, the social media and technology company, is announcing the release of My Taptu, its new social news aggregator available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Aimed directly at solving the problem of information overload (or what’s been called “filter failure”), My Taptu gives you instant access to the latest buzz on all [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 9, 2010
in mobile, social media
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Tagged androd, flipboard, information overload, iphone, Mitch Lazar, mobile, my taptu, mytaptu, rss, social, taptu
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As a regular and long standing blogger in the social, mobile, advertising, tech and digital marketing spaces, I regularly receive approaches from PR companies hoping to promote a client’s release. I receive between 1 and 5 per week depending what is going on in the market. To save my time, and the poor PR’s time, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 29, 2010
in blogs, social media
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Tagged advertising, blogger outreach, blogger relations, blogging, blogs, digital marketing, mobile, pr release, pr tips, press release, public relations, social, social media, tech
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I am delighted to have been asked to contribute to the new “Point Zero” online magazine – just launched by Mark Johnstone from Point Zero Media. Naturally, the magazine is not in paper form but in a easily readable online format. It has a good cross section of articles covering a variety of “point zero” [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 5, 2009
in opinion
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Tagged Alan Flack, Alastair Mitchell, Amy Kean, Andrew Cooper, bmw, BMW social media, BMW X1, corporate social media, Cow, Damien Byrne, David Hogben, Dirk Singer, DMA, enterprise, enterprise 2.0, Freddie Laker, gypsii, huddle, IAB, IAB uk, IABUK, IBM, Jackie Fast, Jenni Lloyd, mark johnstone, meerkat, mma, mobile, mobile 2.0, mobile advertising, mobile social media, msearchgroove, Ninety Ten, Nixon McInnes, Nudge, Nudge London, online magazine, Paul Berney, peggy salz, Peter Wilson, Phil Guest, point zero, point zero media, Sage, Sage UK, Sapient, Selectminds, slideshare, social, social media, Sulake, t-mobile, this is cow, thisiscow, Tony Douglas, twitter, Wimbledon
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Andrew has been asked to moderate the LOCATION session at the Being Digital event on June 10th in London. This looks to be a very exciting event, as it packs in 7 digital themes (advertising, identity, content, location, social, retail and search) which cover the full range of “being digital”. In addition, the event aims [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 20, 2008
in conference
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Tagged advertising, BAFTA, being digital, content, digital, identity, location, mashup, mobile, retail, search, social
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The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.” The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 1, 2008
in applications, location, mobile, privacy
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Tagged facebook, lbs, liberty, location, media, networking, online, sniff, social, times, tracking
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at Jamie Well’s excellent Mobilestance website. Here you can read the freshest posts from around the mobile world about everything from games, website design, QR codes, how mobile social network meets crowd powered media right through to the case for banning mobiles in schools. Head on [...]
When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand. Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2008
in blogs, media, social networking
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Tagged BA, bbc, crowd, flickr, heathrow, journalist, media, mobile, networking, news, nowpublic, powered, reporter, ShoZu, sky, social
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Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”. Read the full article here Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 25, 2008
in location, mobile
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Tagged eagle, fire, google, gps, location, mobile, navigation, networking, pnd, sirf, social, yahoo
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With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.twitter.com m.youtube.com m.myspace.com (ps notice a pattern here – no .mobi extension for these major sites – does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner) ..it got me thinking about the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week. In another week in mobile where there has been much [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged apple, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, data, developers, ecosystem, iphone, messaging, mobilists, mobility, network, networking, Nokia, sdk, sip, social, statistics, voip, wireless
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