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Donna Tocci over at Kryptonite is back from a huge ‘jolly’ as we know them here at BetterComms Towers. A ‘jolly’ means an event or a trip that was fun, probably involved [...]

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Social networks: the next phase

by Lee Hopkins on April 1, 2008 · 3 comments

in marketing

Socially useful sites — ‘what I think about something’ — is the next phase of evolution for social networks, who are mostly currently at the ‘who I am as a person’.
Tying in nicely with my report this week for FIR comes an article from the Beeb about the next development in social networks.
Already there [...]

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If you are attempting to engage with a new audience, please ensure you check your facts first before committing anything to print.
I say this because a poster I saw on Facebook for Eve (I’m guessing a US singer) had some extra dates added to the bill, including here in Adelaide.
One of the many venues available [...]

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Why don’t Aussie PR companies get it?

by Lee Hopkins on March 26, 2008 · 9 comments

in miscellaneous

Up at Adtech I finally got to meet the legendary Cameron Reilly.
Who he, you ask?
Cam (he probably hates being called that, but using his own style, “bugger it”) is the owner of the very large brains behind The Podcast Network, Australia’s largest independent media company. His own podcast, one of the many on the network, [...]

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My mate Gerry McCusker has let us know that even Social Media experts are not too other-worldly as to be excused when they make a ’stuff up’.
Gerry is getting the good ol’ Aussie “irrits” (rhyming slang for “sh!ts”) with Elizabeth Albrycht’s newcommreview, pointing out that a comment he popped up in response to a [...]

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SHOCK! HORROR! Politician monitors blogs!

by Lee Hopkins on March 24, 2008 · 0 comments

in miscellaneous

Sometimes the French astound me. A country that has given birth to such astonishing intellectualism, culture and romance has also given us some very funny moments at its expense.
The latest is the French blogosphere going ‘up in smoke’ about a politician doing what we have for years been suggesting they should do: monitor the [...]

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It’s out now, folks!
[updated: links now work -- oops!] Trevor Cook and I have slaved away in an entirely slavish fashion to produce the all-new, all-singing Third Edition of our runaway best seller. (pssst… it’s free) 
In this year’s Edition every chapter [...]

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Courtesy of the excellent MyRaganTV comes a video so unbelievable that if you saw it in a movie you’d think the writers had strayed too far from reality.

Do you think there’s a bit of ‘kiss and make up’ to be done here, or is it too late and a move to another station is in [...]

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