The East Festival in London will feature Pete Fowler keeping festival fans updated via his freshly painted Tweeting Bike.
Pete Fowler's Tweeting Bike
It’s a novel way to promote the festival and the @eastfestival twitter address as no doubt Pete will attract attention as he rides through the east london district.
You can check out Pete’s Flickr photo set here and follow the overall festival news via @eastfestival, or via the cleverly named #twike hashtag.
The agency behind this initiative is Chance Collective #twike
Read the full story »Social Media continues to be a topic generating quite a bit of buzz, and sometimes this buzz comes in the form of statistics.
Gary Haynes from Personalize Media has created this counter which demonstrates the raw volume of time and dollars associated with several key social media entities.
Here’s some of the key stats
October 15th is Blog Action Day, where 10,000 bloggers around the world are writing about climate change.
Social Media certainly provides a platform to harness the “collective” due to the global accessibility of internet and the ease of content publication which has given consumers a voice. Cause marketing is certainly one of the early adopters of doing this, and I expect to see a continued growth in corporate sponsorship of these initiatives, demonstrating the merging of social media engagement and PR.
The Economist has published this video which contains a series of interesting statistics about the changing media landscape.
Whilst the stats are US focused, they are representative of the changes that are occuring across the globe.
Here’s an excellent presentation I came across today from Rob van Alphen.
Great pictures, and covers many of the issues that we cover with clients about the ways to engage with social media.
Having spent time working within Knowledge Management within the Mars corporation, I Social Media and Knowledge Management are integrated.
Social Media and Knowledge Management (presented on Aug 19th, 2009 at the KM round table conference, at Melbourne Zoo).
bumptop
Here’s a very interesting utility that transforms your windows desktop into a 3D environment, much like a desk. It allows you to place icons in various sizes depending on importance, as well as having them on the wall.
Bumptop also has some clever techniques for sorting and grouping the various functions in an effort to make life more productive. Moving photos between applications is rather cool, and the following video provideds an excellent demonstration.
Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? 
Welcome to the World of Socialnomics
Qualman defines socialnomics as “The ability of social media to generate exponential returns for individuals and businesses”.
They have released a video which showcases some of the social media statistics that describe the social media revolution, and how it is changing the world.
And this revolution has only just begun !
This is a very cool Wordpress plugin that allows you to create a single post shopping cart, connected to PAYPAL.
You can use this for donations, example
[MINICART item="2"]
Or for a product, here I’ve included a product that we sell on the GourmetShopper website, which you can purchase here inside this post.
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If you use wordpress and would like to install this plugin, you’ll find everything you need here.
The plugin is part of a Wordpress Plugin Competition, and you can see & rate the entries here.
Facebook now let you insert a widget of pages onto other sites such as blogs or websites.
Here’s an example of the BRITA facebook page widget that we have developed.
The Fan Box as Facebook call it allows people to become fans of your page with 1 click without needing to visit Facebook.
