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
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Posted March 31, 2011
in social media
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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
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One of the limitations of twitter is that if you want to share a website link such as http://londoncalling.co/2010/10/using-your-own-branded-short-urls-on-twitter-part-1 then the link actually takes up a number of valuable characters (83 to be exact) – more than half of the 140 available in a single tweet. The answer of course is to use one of a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 31, 2010
in social media, URL shorteners
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Tagged bbc, BBC short URL, bit.ly, bit.ly alternative, bit.ly short url, bitly, bitly alternative, bitly alternatives, bitly competitor, bitlypro, bity.pro, branded short URL, branded URL, coke, CokeURL, FT, geek chic, im, Independent, j.mp, lc.tl, london calling, Malcolm Coles, mcol.es, Ozh Richard, personal short URL, personal URL, Reuters, Robert Brook, short branded urls, short brander url, short links, short url, stephen waddington, The Independent, tim bradshaw, tim.lc, tinyurl, tr, tweetdeck, twitter links, url, url short, urls, wadds, wadds.co, wunderman, yourls, yourls.org
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This post follows on from part 1 where I introduced the concept of short URL services and how some companies and individuals have started to deploy customised URL shorteners. So now you’ve made the decision that you want your own short URL service (like the one I use, lc.tl) – what next? Well first of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 31, 2010
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Tagged .cx, .tl, backtweets, bbc, BBC short URL, bit.ly, bitly, bitly.pro, bitlypro, bity.pro, branded short URL, branded URL, chromed bird, coke, CokeURL, domai.nr, eurodns, eurodns.com, FT, geek chic, ghandi.net, im, Independent, lc.tl, london calling, Ozh Richard, personal short URL, personal URL, Reuters, Robert Brook, short links, short url, stephen waddington, The Independent, tim bradshaw, tim.lc, tinyurl, tippex youtube, tr, tweetdec, tweetdeck, twitter links, two letter domains, url, urls, wadds, wadds.co, wunderman, yourls, yourls.org
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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
in social media
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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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Over at Stephen Waddington’s excellent Wadd’s tech pr blog (currently number 25 on the top 50 UK advertising blogs chart) there is a very good discussion on the different “types” found on twitter. This sits nicely with my recent discussion on twitter as a serious business tool vs waste of time. Read the whole post on [...]
