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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 [...]

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 [...]

Using your own branded short URLs part 1

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 [...]

Using your own branded short URLs part 2

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 [...]

Reputation Online Live: Navigating the online monitoring jungle 9th July in London

This coming Friday, 9th July 2010 Reputation Online will be hosting an event at the London Hesperia hotel in Victoria titled “Navigating the online monitoring jungle“. Having recently presented to an agency who said they had “shortlisted” 12 other monitoring companies, I know that this will be of great interest to those who want to start on [...]

What is next for innovators and early adopters?

Many you reading this post are probably are aware of the product adoption curve – an example is shown below (from Wikipedia). It is based on Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model - here is a quick refresh below. Summarising the curve in words – from Kzero’s blog Innovators are brave people that are willing to [...]

Documentally catches up with Iain Dodsworth from TweetDeck

If  you use twitter, and aren’t using TweetDeck – what’s wrong with you! While I was at Tuttle in London on Friday, I wasn’t there long enough to catch up with TweetDeck guru, Iain Dodsworth. Lucky for us though,  our man inside - Christian Payne (@documentally) was there and he recorded this short interview below. Talking With [...]