Ed Stivala

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a few thoughts.

Talking of awards

In a Cannes the Obama for America presidential campaign, created by the Obama for America team, scooped the Grand Prix in both the Integrated and Titanium categories.

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Congratulation to Aleksandr (and of course VCCP too)

Just a quick note to congratulate VCCP for wining both Best use of Social Media and also Best use of the Web this week at the NMA awards. Absolutely deserved and brilliant campaign.

Whoops! Habitat apologise for tweeting error

Furniture store Habitat has apologised for any offence caused, after accusations it exploited unrest in Iran to drive online Twitter users to its products. The retailer inserted keywords (hashtags) – such as ‘Iran’ and ‘Mousavi’ to make its messages show up to users looking for content about Iran. You could have mistaken this for SPAMMING, but as Habitat explained – it was an accident.

New data from Hitwise makes interesting reading

It will be no surprise to you that Twitter has leapt up the league tables this year in terms of ranking. In fact it is now the 38th most visited website in the UK. But before you nod off to sleep, what is more interesting is what happens to the traffic coming away from Twitter… 

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Sometimes you need a little light relief right?

Just to prove that I do have a sense of humor about social media, I wanted to share this cartoon with you. I thought it was very funny!! Thanks btw to Katie at FridaysPR for telling me about it. My guess is that it really does sum up what a lot of people are thinking about Twitter – me included!!!

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