I popped over to see Adil and Charlotte at Sidekick Studios on Tuesday and to check out the awesome power of the Voicebot. The Voicebot is a project being developed by Sidekick and V, the youth volunteering organisation. More importantly,...
Topics: Politics

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The good people at social consultation firm, Delib, have shared an interesting paper examining the development of US edemocracy following Obama's inauguration. I'm as fed up as the next person hearing about how it was the internets what won it...

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David Cushman has a nice overview of PR firm, Edelman's, annual Trust Barometer launched today.David points to the apparent "accelerating collapse in trust in advertising and traditional mass media" and makes the incisive soundbite:...
Topics: Edelman, Internet, PR, Trust

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As a communicator with an understanding of the Internet, I'd always advise my clients that the web is fundamentally changing the ways we communicate, consume and produce media and culture and in order to survive (or at least stay relevant)...
Topics: Copyright, Economics, Music, Politics, Technology

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Rather an interesting statement has made its way into the latest iteration of the CIPR’s Social Media Guidelines. According to the section in the Guidelines covering Social Media and the CIPR Code of Conduct:"[CIPR] Members' use of social...
Topics: CIPR, PR, social media, Web 2.0

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