True to the title, yesterday’s Social Collective event was a great excuse to catch up with some old friends and meet some new people. Some great sessions too – in particular I’d direct anyone with an interest ...

With our regular political commentator away, I was inspired by Hitwise’s look at the search patterns associated with the Labour leadership contest to have a dig around the issue in social media. Looking at four ...

Next week’s Social Collective conference aims to be a “big picture” event, one that examines “how we communicate within the platforms and how we measure and integrate social media into our strategies, customer service and ...

With London Fashion Week looming, we’ve been looking at the Top 10 UK and international Blogs for a range of fashion activities. As discussed in an earlier post, these blogs are already starting to challenge ...

Many years ago, starting out in media monitoring, I spent my nights reading (and cutting out bits of) newspapers. One thing that kept me going was the pleasure of the Wall Street Journal’s illustrated portraits. ...

Earlier this week, the web was in thrall to the story of a girl who had quit her job by posting 33 pictures of herself in which she told her boss exactly what she thought ...

… but don’t use social media in their research. A recent study from the Market Research Global Alliance (MRGA), based on a sample of over 3,000 respondents from over 50 cities and regions globally, sought ...

As a devotee of communications ROI, a report published last week really caught my eye: Domino’s Pizza has attributed strong growth in online sales to its use of promotions on location-based mobile application Foursquare and ...

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media Last month, Knowledge Networks published research that suggested that heavy users ...

Highlights of Friday’s news:rewired conference were many, with personal standouts including an infographics masterclass from the BBC’s Ollie Williams and the FT’s Rob Minto, and a punchy closing session, in which the panellists, Kevin Anderson ...

Three weeks is even longer. I’ve spent plenty of time harping on about the myriad problems the web causes for traditional media, but it’s only this week that I’ve experienced one of those problems first ...

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s Social Media ROI webinar. As promised during the session, I want to take a more detailed look at some of the questions that we didn’t have time to answer. ...

The observant repeat visitor to this blog (hello!) will have noticed a new embedded video on the right hand side here. >>> These talking heads were filmed during the Social Media in a Corporate Context ...

The big debate at yesterday’s Social Media in a Corporate Context conference focused on ownership of social media. Not that Communicate set the conference up this way; it’s just that the passions this session aroused ...

“Who are you all? Why don’t you stop hiding behind your pseudonyms and tell us about yourselves?” These questions were asked by Polly Toynbee, by some reckonings the most influential political commentator in the UK ...

Last week, our European research team published lists of the Top 10 UK fashion blogs and the Top 10 UK fashion magazines by ABC audited circulation. Which made some people pretty happy, while also raising ...

There were a couple of big announcements from UK national newspapers last week, both very much expected, and both sending strong signals about the future of newspapers in the UK. At the end of the ...

New research from iModerate and Chadwick Martin Taylor makes encouraging reading for those building brands on social networks.  As eMarketer reports, More than one-half of Facebook fans said they are more likely to make a purchase for ...

Imagine a status update or tweet that could be read, instantly, in a language of your choosing. Such a breakthrough would dissolve at a stroke the linguistic silos that currently divide even the most multinational of ...

Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, whose third series has just finished its run on the BBC (second series now showing again on BBC2 and the iPlayer), isn’t just enormously entertaining – it’s also enormously important. Like Lenny ...