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We've been busy…

You may have noticed that we’ve a been a bit quiet here on the We Are Social blog recently, with less frequent posting than normal (aside from Jordan‘s new regular Monday Mashups). Well, we’ve been busy. I know that’s not an excuse, but I do have countless half written draft posts as testament, which hopefully […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #5

The Big Money Facebook 50 If you like lists then head over to this slide show on The Big Money, which is running down the top 50 brands that are currently making the best use of Facebook. Various metrics – including fan numbers, page growth, frequency of updates, creativity as determined by a panel of […]

Social media in a Fluid State

We’re excited to be working with an innovative new food and drink festival called Towards a Fluid State. What is it exactly? Good question. As described by Urban Junkies: Imagine a futuristic farmers’ market getting hit by a science lab and a truck full of the sexiest booze and food on Earth. It’s presented by The Tasting Sessions, who’ve […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #4

Social networks are making people more likely to complain online LexisNexis last week announced the results of a survey that should make brand managers / online marketers / customer service departments take notice: Just over half polled said that if they are unhappy with something they have bought or used they will complain about it […]

Many businesses still failing to embrace social media

Yesterday Econsultancy published their Social Media and Online PR Report, produced in association with bigmouthmedia. It’s certainly worth a read. The first thing to point out is that the scope of the research is nothing if not impressive. They received over 1,100 respondents representing 458 client-side organizations and 522 agency / suppliers. One might assume then […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #3

It’s time for We Are Social’s Monday Mashup, our pick of some of the web’s finest research, news and case studies. CMOs: Consumers Are Connected. You Need To Be, Too The prolific Jeremiah Owyang penned this article for Forbes magazine, as a guide for CMOs who are currently putting the finishing touches on their 2010 […]

The social network in your pocket

A nice presentation from Mike Arauz: Mobile technology is making every experience both digital and social. That means that the experiences that we previously thought of as happening “off line” now play by the same rules as online experiences. The same principles that make things spread online now need to be applied to real world […]

We Are Social at 140 Characters

Photo by Paul Clarke Yesterday, while Robin was wowing the audience of Monitoring Social Media 2009, I attended the 140 Characters conference at the O2 in London, part of a series of conferences under Jeff Pulver‘s care and attention. Twitter conferences have often been derided as being populated by agencies and other die-hard converts telling […]

An anthropological intro to YouTube

Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, a pioneer in digital ethnography and the man who brought us Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us and Information R/evolution presents an anthropological introduction to YouTube to the Library of Congress: I know you’ve been shown this video before, but have […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #2

It’s time for We Are Social’s Monday Mashup, a quick round up of research, news and case studies that caught our eye over the last week and we thought were worth sharing. Here’s our pick of some of the web’s finest. Crowdsourcing advertising – can it work? A fine post by Amelia Torode about Peperami’s […]