Daily Archives: 30 November, 2010

Will Jumo change the world (and rid us of chuggers at the same time)?

No doubt many of you read Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker essay about social revolution and social networks, in which he argued that Twitter and Facebook were useful for causes where you didn’t ask too much of people — for example, requiring them to share some information, rather than put themselves at physical risk or make a financial sacrifice.

Jumo: change the world

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Virgin’s iPad magazine ‘Project’ hits Apple app store – “Shockingly Good”

Virgin’s iPad only magazine has gone on sale on the Apple app store today featuring a mix of international culture, entertainment, design, business and travel.

The debut issue has Jeff Bridges on the cover, ahead of the launch of the reboot of the movie ‘Tron’, and features on Jaguar’s 205 MPH Hypercar as well as a 3D tour of Tokyo. Read More »

Facebook killer Google Me is delayed until 2011

It is being reported that Go0gle’s planned social networking initiative Google Me is to be delayed until the Spring of next year.

It had been expected that Google Me would have been unveiled before the end of the year and in September Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that its much talked of social networking plans would be unveiled in the autumn. Read More »

Blurring the lines between social media and PR

No one can own social media

Over the last few years I’ve seen endless debates about who should ‘own’ social media – a bizarre concept to me.  How can you own something that affects every element of an organisation? What is needed is someone to oversee its use, strategically, holistically and cohesively. And that ‘someone’ is often the person in charge of PR – the eyes and ears of an organisation. Read More »