A Really Nice Summary of Facebook’s Timeline for Brands
Facebook recently launched their ‘Timeline’ for your profiles and now it’s set to be rolled out for Brand Pages at the end of the month, this great post tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the changes and how they will effect your page.
What *does* a Community Manager Actually Do?
Ben Whitelaw, Communities Editor at The Times, explains how he explains his role to his colleagues in this well written and very well thought out article. The interesting thing is how he appraoches different people in different roles in a different way. Ultimately it’s all about education.
Dublin offers valuable data to help businesses
Dublinked is Dublin’s open data initiative and it has valued the data that is held within the four Public Sector bodies it represents at €27bn. It’s now opening up this data to businesses across the Dublin area so they can begin to understand more about potential markets and services. Fascinating stuff.
Exploring the Kenya Open Data Portal
More open data, popping up in more and more unexpected places. Meanwhile, us in the “First World” can barely find out a reliable way to vote for people.
So You Want Out of Google+?
So it’s fair to say that Google+ has perhaps not been the success that may originally have been anticipated. The problem is, most people nowadays simply have too many other Google services running. This post shows you how you can delete your Google+ account without affecting them.
Is it Better to Share on Google+, Facebook or Twitter?
Sharing content across Social Networks is great, right? Where do you get the most success from though? Each have their own plusses and minuses but what are the base line stats?
How to build a great brand with very little money
This transcribed presentation from the DO Lectures is from David Hieatt, in it he talks about how he built his brand for a comparative pittance.
Twitter by Mail?
For a month, with a billion stamps, he moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, and rediscovered the joy of mail.
Tumblr 87,000 SOPA 0
America’s “Stop Online Piracy Act” has attracted a wave of protests from the online community, possibly the best of the lot though, is micro-blogging service Tumblr generating a massive 87,834 phone calls from their users lodging their objections.
Make a Documentary Only Using HTML5 and WebGL
HTML5 is set to revolutionise the interactivity of the web, reducing the need for extraneous plugins and making the whole thing more browser native than before. This mini-documentaries about the history of high rise towers and their effect on society is a fantastic example of what it can do.
Google+ Announces Branded Pages
So, as predicted, it’s finally here. Google+, the social web’s new kid on the block brought to you by the biggest kid on the block, have finally announced their branded pages. Another channel for us to think about then.
Google+ Traffic Drops 1269%
Empty Room Theory rings true as Google+’s original traffic gains settle down to worryingly low levels after initial launch surge.
