Earlier this week, MIT hosted a workshop dedicated to the study of information flows and decision-making in social networks. Among those presenting were researchers from Norway’s Telenor, whose work suggested a predictive link between network ...

This week, it’s all about influence. Again. PRWeek yesterday looked at the tools available to PRs for finding digital media influencers, kindly listing Cision’s Social Media Index alongside the likes of PeerIndex and Klout. At ...

Reputation Online yesterday looked at the “difficulties of algorithmic authority” in an article featuring quotes from Azeem Azhar, founder of Peer Index. As he did when I interviewed him for our “Identifying and targeting social media influencers” webinar, ...

Our US colleagues have just published the 2011 take on their annual list of the Top 100 social media and online marketing blogs, for the first time adding dedicated SEO blogs into the mix. In honour of this, we’ve refreshed ...

Just published over at PRmoment, some thoughts on social media releases, Tod Defrens and Bon Jovi.  A snip: Looking at SMR formats today, Jon Bon Jovi’s immortal couplet comes to mind: “it’s all the same, ...

Founded in 1906, Anderson & Sheppard is a prominent Savile Row bespoke tailor. In its English Heritage-listed rooms at 32 Old Burlington Street, Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford and the late Alexander McQueen have all learnt from ...

With the end of 2010 rushing toward us, we’ve refreshed our Top 50 UK blogs. The revised Top 50 is of course a reflection of changes in the UK blogosphere since we published our last ...

Research agency Crowd DNA recently produced a piece of work for IPC Media on a project called “MAGs”, a study trying to understand that notoriously incomprehensible demographic, the mass market male (MMM). Crowd DNA surveyed ...

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 ...

Christmas may be 6 months away but now is the crucial time when it comes to planning your pitches to ensure successful Christmas coverage. In the run up to Christmas, all kinds of publications offer ...

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 ...