If rumours are to be believed then footballer of the year GarethBale will soon be sporting the Real Madrid jersey, marking a world transfer record pegged at £100mn. The real winner though is bwin, the online gaming and betting company ...

‘Please turn off all personal electronic devices, including laptops and cell phones… but don’t panic yet, you may tweet your take-off experience within moments of connectivity at 12,000 feet off the ground.’ How’s that for ...

The Online Education Database has created a truly comprehensive list of 100 Indispensable Twitter Tips for Journalism Students. Twitter has an increasingly prominent place in a journalist’s role; Cision’s own UK Social Journalism Study 2012 ...

Tim Burt is the author of Dark Art: The Changing Face of Public Relations and joined Cision for an exclusive webinar discussing his views on journalism, public relations and the state of digital media. Tim ...

What you’re seeing on the left is the cover of Wired’s latest edition. Wired might be glossy, but it’s not that kind of glossy: the magazine’s focus is technology and its effects on culture, economy ...

Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber has been the target of an intense online hate campaign in recent weeks. One of the latest incidents occurred when Justin crowdsourced the decision on which country he should tour ...

The second European Summit on Measurement from AMEC got underway in Barcelona yesterday.  There’s a lot going on – discussions on content licensing, the industry’s future, the needs of PR professionals and measuring business outcomes.   ...

“Plenty of speculation about England squad, but rest assured this and TheFA.com will be the first place you hear confirmation of final 23.” As tweeted by thefadotcom on Twitter. Well, not quite. The Football Association ...

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. ...

Last week Primark was in the news after the retailer “got it wrong” with the sale of padded bikinis for seven year olds.   The social media response was predictably damning, with comment from outraged ...

PR Week recently reported that more companies are increasingly using social media “to mend damaged reputations”, perhaps because that same social media makes reputation threats in general, and customer complaints in particular, more visible. When customer complaints arrived by ...

MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland first came to my attention a few years ago in a Technology Review interview in which he discussed “reality mining”, which at that point comprised online data mining enhanced with mobile phone ...