NUI Galway Gigapixel Photo Tags Students to Promote College
NUI Galway have come up with an inspired use of social media in their efforts to promote the college to new undergraduates, and they've recruited hundreds of ambassadors to help in the task: their own students.
Klout Now A Content Hub?
Klout has been around for the last couple of years and is probably best known for its "score". Using a number of different metrics it calculates each person's overall "influence" across social networks and assigns a
A Lick of Paint [Audio]
Today's podcast (40:09, 24MB, MP3) was recorded by Michele and Conn at Blacknight HQ, as painters put the finishing touch to the recent rennovations, in preparation for the official launch of Blacknight's brand new datacentre (more
The Top Social Brands of 2013
Here's some more great research on social media for business by Social Bakers. The #SociallyDevoted report is out for Q4, 2013, with Dutch Airline KLM topping the poll for customer service on social media. Airlines in
Buyer Beware: The Consumers’ Association and Fake Followers [Audio]
Chart of CAI Twitter followers by country. Source: Fanpage Karma As reported in The Sunday Times yesterday, the Consumers' Association of Ireland has more Twitter followers in Brazil than in Ireland, having jumped from
Down with This Sort of Thing: TD Calls for Crackdown on “Open Source Browsers”
Fine Gael TD Patrick O'Donovan has discovered that our way of life is under threat from anonymous internet users and their nasty "open source" browsers. But never fear, gentle citizens, he's on the case. Fine
