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Fear of missing out

A great deck from JWT Intelligence looking at the phenomenon of FOMO: For those unfamiliar with the expression, that’s Fear Of Missing Out, the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling you’re missing out—that your peers are doing, in the know about or in possession of more or something better than you. While we’ve always had a […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #82

It’s been a busy week in the world of social media, as we opened our fifth office (o hai Germany) as well as the more usual news… The UK is addicted to smartphones The latest Ofcom report focusing on smartphone data confirmed what we already knew: the smartphone is now firmly a part of our […]

We Are Social: The survey!

As part of We Are Social London’s third birthday celebrations, those of us on the social committee thought it would be nice to conduct a light-hearted survey of the London team. As we’re looking for new people to join our team, we thought we’d share the results here to let those thinking about applying get […]

We Are Social Munich, open for business

Break out the steins! We Are Social Deutschland launched today, in the beautiful city of Munich. We’re very proud that Bastian Scherbeck, one of Germany’s leading social media practitioners, has joined us to head up We Are Social Deutschland (which, if you speak German, you may have read about earlier in Werben & Verkaufen, ONEtoONE, […]

Wikio’s top 20 UK online marketing blogs

Wikio have given us a sneak preview of their list of August’s top UK online marketing blogs, which will be published later this week. We’re happy to still be in 2nd place: 1 Econsultancy blog 2 We Are Social 3 FreshNetworks Blog 4 Sitemaps and Seo – First in Google? 5 Malcolm Coles 6 State […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #81

A Facebook fan is worth the sum of their friends Online analytics firm comScore set out to answer the much-pondered question, what’s a Facebook fan worth? The answer: it depends on how many friends they have. For example if a brand posts an update, not all of their fans will be online to see it […]

You may ask yourself, is this my new job?

You may ask yourself, how did I get here? You may ask yourself, where is my career? You may tell yourself, this is not my dream job You may tell yourself, this is not my dream life Letting the days go by, letting my boss hold me down Letting the days go by, commuting on […]

The state of Social Commerce: July 2011

A great deck from JWT Intelligence, based on their in-depth report looking at the current state of social commerce in the US and UK, which: examines three trends: the rise of Facebook commerce (retailers selling directly on Facebook), overlaying the social graph on e-commerce sites and introducing that social graph to the brick-and-mortar world. We […]

The path to building online trust

A nice infographic from Mark Smiciklas looking at how brands need to behave online in order to gain people’s trust:

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #80

Google+: massive growth A month after it launched and a nice milestone reached for Google+, especially when compared to Facebook and Twitter’s early growth as illustrated by the graph below: It’s worth remembering though that Facebook and Twitter were startups when they launched – conversely, Google is one of the biggest corporations in the world, […]