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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.

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Feb
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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.

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Feb
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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

Whilst the social web is all about conversation, interaction and personality none of those things butter any crumpets when it comes to Board Reports. It’s all about cold, hard metrics. Ann Smarty, a search marketer and web entrepreneur, gives us her links to some fantastic resources for getting fast and meaningful metrics.

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Jan
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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.

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Jan
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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.

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17
Jan
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Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012

So it’s a New Year, subsequently there are rather a lot of these posts floating about. This one is actually quite good though. I know, I was shocked too.

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17
Jan
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News Headlines and Retweets

What makes a successful headline and what makes people share it may actually be completely different from each other. Nick Diakopoulos takes a look at some data from the NYT and finds out that it may not be so straightforward as you thought.

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08
Jan
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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.

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Jan
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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?

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01
Jan
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Great Run-Down of Social News and Bookmark Sites

Most people only see social bookmarks at the bottom of blogs or newspaper sites, usually they have no idea what the icons mean or what they do. If you are one of those people then this is a handy article for you.

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Jan
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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.

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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.

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Dec
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What Have You Downloaded?

Scary IP Address lookup predicts your torrent habits

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Nov
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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.

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13
Nov
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Writing For The Social Web

It’s starting to be accepted as a fact that the social web has changed the way we write, this handy guide covers some key rules and guidelines for how to effectively write with the web in mind.

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11
Nov
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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.

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07
Nov
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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.

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Do not underestimate the cultural change associated with social media

We love social workspaces, well we would do wouldnt we? After all we do make them. Here’s handy guide to things to consider, how to kick the project off and, most importantly, the cultural change associated with rolling them out to the workforce.

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Database of Social Media policies

If your organisation is going to embrace the social web then you are going to need a policy, this repository of policies is incredibly useful for anybody looking to set something up.

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