Tag Archives: social media

Deconstructing Stephen Fry

By Dhiren | Published: November 16, 2008
I’m really liking StephenFry.com, he has turned into a celebrity Social Media Evangelist. The only thing that I question about his whole concept is the use of his own video content? Why is it not being hosted on a platform like Vimeo, Revver or Viddler? If people could embed his video content onto their own [...]
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IAB Social Media Handbook

By Dhiren | Published: November 5, 2008
  For the past 3 months I have been working with the recently formed IAB Social Media Council. The council has been set-up to help both agencies and marketer’s gain a better understanding of social media and some of its components. It has been great collaborating with fellow council members, who have all provided unique and insightful [...]
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Open source and open source communities

By Dhiren | Published: November 2, 2008
Having never really grasped Photoshop properly and only making minor changes to photographs using Apple’s Aperture on my old Mac, I thought it was time for me to really start editing my photos properly. After all sometimes you only have a single take whether it’s film or digital. With this in mind I began to [...]
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The power of tagging

By Dhiren | Published: October 27, 2008
A seasonal post from me today… People often ask me why the hell they should bother tagging content? Lot’s of reasons for this and I could sit here and yammer on about tagging, taxonomies and folksonomies etc etc. Instead of me giving you guys a drawn out explanation I’ll let you do the reading into [...]
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Twedit Twunch

By Dhiren | Published: October 22, 2008
I’ve just been messing about with some of the twitter analytics tools available on the web in order to gain an idea of how people are reacting towards the credit crunch. All the tools show a recent uplift in tweets during this month and twitter spectrum shows associative phrases around the term. Twist: Twitter Spectrum: [...]
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Get involved – “Pass it on”

By Dhiren | Published: October 21, 2008
I’ve been watching Jamie’s Ministry of Food for a couple of weeks and I think it’s brilliant! A real life example of a social experiment that encourages people to cook, eat well and pass on their learnings. In the show Jamie drives around Rotherham, knocking on peoples doors, holding cooking classes and getting people to [...]
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FOWA

By Dhiren | Published: October 15, 2008
I was at FOWA for the second day of the conference last week, it was an insightful day out of the office and I walked out feeling quite informed about all things going on in the world of web apps and social websites. My day kicked off with Tim Bray giving a good on talk [...]
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Kool collaboration

By Dhiren | Published: September 28, 2008
I was on the Vice website and saw this yesterday. Yes I know, I know, I read Vice. What can I say…I like the quirky photo journalism. I think it’s great how Volvo, Yahoo, Vice and The Independent have come together for this brand mash-up concept. All the underpinnings of a good social media exercise [...]
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Geek Meet

By Dhiren | Published: September 28, 2008
So I attented twestival earlier during the week, a sort of social media, web2 and netrentrepreneur gathering all organised via twitter. This was definitely the first media event I had attended, which had been organised through twitter. Some people were shocked about how many agency bods had attended but then what did they expect? A [...]
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I see the little ones have grown up, Chai?

By Dhiren | Published: September 23, 2008
When I was a kid I used to get taken to asian fabric shops by my parents every other Saturday. As my parents were regular customers they used to have a bit of banter with the shop keepers who used to serve them complimentary chai and food. You don’t exactly see this happening in John [...]
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A conversation platform that will help brands to “test the waters”

By Dhiren | Published: September 15, 2008
Yesterday I discovered UberSpat (loving the Uber). What I like about this new platform is that it’s based on the foundations of Social Media, two-way dialogue. UberSpat not only facilitates conversation and debate, it also lets users reinforce the debate with content, which can strengthen debates from various angles. This website is a great way [...]
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