Paul and I had a busy day yesterday, delivering the first Social Media Marketing workshop as part of the inblackandwhite.tv event series. This was our second workshop, following on from the blogging workshop last december. I’m pleased to say it was a success, there was some great discussions resulting from the sessions and everyone went [...]
Author Archives: Gez Daring
Twitter hits the UK mainstream thanks to @stephenfry and @wossy
Last Friday, Twitter was discussed on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in front of an audience of over 4 million. It wasn’t the punchline of a joke about ‘young people’ as Facebook and MySpace often are but discussed in earnest and with affection by two of the UK’s best known media personalities. Have a look [...]
4 things you wanted to know about Blogging for Business (and weren’t afraid to ask)
Following the Blogging for Business pro-manchester breakfast seminar, Gez addresses a few of the issues that came up in discussion.
I can haz gurlfrend?
Well I guess it was only a matter of time before the latest internet fad, LOLcatz, was hijacked for use in an ad campaign. For the uninitiated, the idea behind LOLcatz is simple. Take a picture of a cat in a funny situation and add a caption of the cat talking in leet (or |_337, [...]
Clevr Flickr
Back in April, we commented on what a good idea it is to combine an online marketing campaign with an offline activity. A perfect example of this is the new campaign from the people at Flickr. Faceball, billed as a “A fun-for-all-the-family game of projectile-based violence”, is a game involving the throwing of beach balls [...]


