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Friday Freak Out – The Stupidity of Brands Like Claire’s
As larger brands and business get more involved with social media marketing, I’m starting to notice a theme: big names making some big PR mistakes. The latest example of poor social behaviour is...
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Friday Freak Out – Crappy Follow Freakin’ Fridays
Everyone loves getting ‘bigged up’ – it makes you feel good right? The Twitter Follow Friday (#FF) can be a nice way of doing this but only when used properly. Being part of a mass #FF list such as -...
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Friday Freak Out – People Asking Me to Retweet Their S**t
Image credit - brandstyledesign.com Mike and I were chatting about our freaks outs of the week and it turns out that we had the same complaint. We have both been approached by people, under slightly...
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Friday Freak Out – LinkedIn Groups That Suck
I’m a member of 15 groups on LinkedIn. How many of those groups are worth spending any time in? One. Yes that’s uno, une, один and ett. LinkedIn brings together clever (and some not so clever) people...
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Friday Freak Out – Web Services Making Changes That Suck (bit.ly)
If you are like me, you’ll have a list of apps/websites and services that you know and love. From time to time things need to change, push forward and indeed improve. When something changes that you...
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Friday Freak Out – Facebook’s Freaking ‘Top Friends’ Updates
After my freak out last week about the flaming awful Facebook mobile app experience, I thought my ire towards Facebook may have been buried for a while. How I was wrong… Pain in the Ass ‘Top Friends’...
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Friday Freak Out – Review Sites Are Ruining Customer Service
Mike had little to rant about this week (shock!) so our pal Rob decided to vent instead. Enjoy! Rob drew this. I have good reason for saying this. Review sites are a great resource for customer...
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Friday Freak Out – Crappy Freaking Infographics
Infographics have been hot property on the web for a few years now. They are everywhere. Some of them are even really good, full of interesting facts and appealing visual quirks, delivering the data...
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Friday Freak Out – Instagram Eyeburners!
‘Hey man, you on Instagram? Awesome, I’ll follow you, can’t wait to see your shots, bet they are super-arty and creative! Rock the hell on man.’ Instagram is pretty neat. Big audience, cool features,...
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Friday Freak Out – Stop Stealing My Freakin’ Blog Posts!!!
I blog here on The Social Penguin and also over on the blog for my consultancy, Velocity Digital. Last week, one of my posts on the Velocity blog made it through the Social Media Today filters and...
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Friday Freak Out – Stop The Desperation to Blog About Facebook
Did you hear the major news about Facebook during the week? No, Mark Zuckerberg’s perpetual smug look on his face hasn’t waned, they’ve not reached 100 million uses on Mars and they haven’t managed to...
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Friday Freak Out – You Don’t Need an Instagram Strategy!
This is going to be one of the shortest blog posts I ever write. Listen up and listen up good! Your brand does not need an Instagram strategy. In fact, it doesn’t need a strategy for: Facebook Twitter...
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