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Gordon Brown needs to consider his social media reputation

Following on from Friday's post on Labour's Twitter lead , research says that Gordon Brown has a lot of ground to make up with Britain's 30m online social network users as he looks to make his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference...

Posted Sep 28 2009, 09:28 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Facebook, Labour, Myspace, Tories, Twitter, YouTube, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, bebo, Nick Griffin Social media, Yomego, Nicolas Sarkozy, British National Party, Labour Party Conference

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Saving Newspapers - The Musical

It's an oldie, by today's standards, but still a goodie. In April, the East Bay Express - a freesheet out of Oakland, California released 'Saving Newspapers - The Musical', an underappreciated YouTube gem. Handing out such pearls of wisdom...

Posted Aug 21 2009, 10:41 AM by Dan Leahul with | with no comments

Filed under: newspapers, YouTube, journalism

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NCAA fails in sideline Twitter ban

A college football division (the American kind) has u-turned on its policy that attempted to clamp down on bloggers and amateur sportswriters, effectively 'banning' social media from its stadiums, by prohibiting fans from recording sideline video...

Posted Aug 20 2009, 11:49 AM by Dan Leahul with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Facebook, football, Twitter, YouTube, ncaa

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Someone made money off YouTube! A wife-beater? Who cares!

Okay, fine, YouTube figured out a way to make some money - and now it's boasting about it on both its Biz Blog and papa Google's main blog. You see, the JK Wedding Entrance Dance video - surely you've heard of it, has made a bunch of millionaires...

Posted Jul 31 2009, 11:19 AM by Dan Leahul with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: YouTube

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Social media and the Iranian election

On Wired.com, Andrew Exum is wondering all about Iran and the explosive use of social media to organise, agitate and protest in Iran. He's wondering how real it all is? And if it is the technological enabled few rather than the digitally deprived...

Posted Jun 16 2009, 11:07 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 8 comment(s)

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It was the blogs that called Obama victory

An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's...

Posted Nov 05 2008, 08:28 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ABCs, Blogging, Facebook, Huffingtonpost, Myspace, social media, US media, US Presidential elections, YouTube, Barack Obama, CBS, New York Times

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Follow the election on Twitter

There are so many ways to follow the US election tonight, but one proving really popular is Twitter. Twittervotereport.com gives constant updates from across the US while the polls are open including the current length of queues, which has been one eye...

Posted Nov 04 2008, 04:11 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, Myspace, social media, US media, US Presidential elections, YouTube, Barack Obama

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Future of Social media - (3) BA does social media

Final bit from the Future of Social Media Conference, Chris Davies, digital marketing manager from BA, was good on the challenges that new media marketers can face internally and he did with the world's (sometime) favourite airline. Bit of an update...

Posted Oct 28 2008, 05:29 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: social media, YouTube, Viral videos, Future of Social Media Conference, moderation, British Airways, BA, metrotwin.com, UGC, UBM

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Future of social media (2)

More bullets from today's Future of Social Media Conference. Got to say one thing though everyone is talking about Twitter. All the speakers have brought Twitter up. Martin Verdon-Roe, sales director TripAdvisor. He had one piece of very good advice...

Posted Oct 28 2008, 02:26 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, social media, Twitter, YouTube, Future of Social Media Conference, UBM

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Updated: Future of Social Media Conference - (parts 1, 2, 3)

Rohit Bhargava – senior vp, marketing at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence is the first main speaker today, great speaker and some very good advice for marketers who want to understand social media. He kicks off his presentation by talking about "Why...

Posted Oct 28 2008, 11:36 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Ebay, social media, Twitter, YouTube, Future of Social Media Conference, UBM

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Obama is marketer of the year

The Barack Obama campaign is an unprecedented advertising and marketing machine that is now running four times as many ads as John McCain. It has also been the most diverse and smart marketing campaign we've ever seen in politics, or elsewhere for...

Posted Oct 20 2008, 09:27 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, Myspace, social media, US media, US Presidential elections, YouTube, Barack Obama

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A YouTube star called Fred

Have you heard of Fred? Chances are you will soon as he has become a YouTube sensation, racking up 500,000 subscribers to his channel, which is pretty good for "a six-year-old with anger management issues" who already has movie studios knocking...

Posted Sep 19 2008, 09:17 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: YouTube, Viral videos

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Talking of Matt Damon and YouTube

…as if his ad-skipping Bourne performance was not enough, Matt Damon has been creating huge comedy waves on YouTube with Sarah Silverman and pulling in millions in the process. I saw this a while ago, but thought would tie this all in a long round about...

Posted Feb 26 2008, 01:04 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Google, social media, YouTube, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman

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Dude Hilary is running for president

The Democratic presidential race has been riveting and continues to be so as it heads for the wire. The ad campaigns have been contrasting. Hilary Clinton's latest made me laugh while a celebrity laden Barack Obama wins the cringworthy Oscar.I could...

Posted Feb 12 2008, 02:56 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: America, social media, YouTube

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Floundering Yahoo! and who will win out in the merger

Yahoo! seems to be fresh out of ideas. We know this because its solution to fighting off Microsoft is to form an alliance with Google. This appears to be the equivalent of the lamb shacking up with the hungry wolf. Good luck with that one. Yahoo!'s...

Posted Feb 05 2008, 02:57 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, social media, Yahoo!, YouTube

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Gordon Brown needs to consider his social media reputation

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Saving Newspapers - The Musical

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NCAA fails in sideline Twitter ban

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Someone made money off YouTube! A wife-beater? Who cares!

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Social media and the Iranian election

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It was the blogs that called Obama victory

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Follow the election on Twitter

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Future of Social media - (3) BA does social media

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Future of social media (2)

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Updated: Future of Social Media Conference - (parts 1, 2, 3)

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Obama is marketer of the year

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A YouTube star called Fred

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Talking of Matt Damon and YouTube

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Dude Hilary is running for president

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Floundering Yahoo! and who will win out in the merger