Monthly Archives: June 2009

Gravatars, or globally-recognised avatars

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you make a comment. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

Google making Waves

Google Wave is coming: it’s a concurrent rich-text editing tool where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well-suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication.

Buzz monitoring tools: an introduction and a list

With a professional buzz monitoring platform, you can monitor the social Web and find your brand mentioned on millions of blog posts, viral videos, reviews, audiocasts, photos, Twitter updates. You can undertake real-time monitoring of mentions of your organisation, product, issues and competitors.

You can analyse buzz about outcomes of specific marketing campaigns and social media investments. You can be aware of which content is making an impact, what needs to be managed and uncover key influencers online by topic, based on user-determined weightings.

Restructuring Social Media: MySpace

MySpace has suffered a PR and user mini-crisis, culminating in last week’s announcement of 30% staff cuts across the Rupert Murdoch owned, News Corporation company.

My first days at Juice Digital

I have been showered with information about search engine optimisation, Digital PR and the like. It will get some getting used to, but soon I will be involved in some actual projects. So far, done some research on social media demographics in the UK for MD Steve Downes.

Who’ll win a Big Chip Award?

As a bit of fun for tonight’s Big Chip Awards, Juice Digital will send a bottle of decent bubbly to the person who predicts the most winners in the North West categories.
Simply reply to this blog post to enter.
Here are the categories:
Best E-Business project
Best Public Sector Project
Best Not for Profit Project
Best E-Learning project
Best Use of [...]

Digital PR alert: surfing the Google Wave

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.