Twitter and LinkedIn announce partnership

Written by Thilde Vesterby
A few days ago LinkedIn and Twitter announced a partnership to bring tweets to LinkedIn. This means that LinkedIn’s 51 million members will now be able to send status updates – such as the fact that they’re hiring – to Twitter on a case-by-case basis, and vice versa.  This way the [...]

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Charity Song Crowdsourced through YouTube

Written by Thilde Vesterby
How do you raise money for a good cause when you’ve got nothing? You get help through social media.
I’ve Got Nothing is a pop song that’s been made by four teenagers and the help they got on YouTube. Everything is done entirely through crowsourced as a part of BBC’s ChartJackers.

The projest [...]

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Getting Started With Social Media

Written by Richard Lalleman
Richard Lalleman is a guest writer on Mindjumpers blog. Richard holds an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management from the London Metropolitan University. Currently, Richard is working on projects and programmes to enhance innovation by developing organisational learning environments. A crucial part in this work is embedding social media tools at [...]

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Liverpool FC First to Reach a Million Fans on Facebook

Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen

Times are changing: Brands that use and embrace social media tools can flip everything around over the next couple of years.
The world’s largest soccer brand Manchester United and huge brands like Real Madrid C.F. and FC Barcelona have been beaten by Liverpool FC in reaching 1 million fans on Facebook. [...]

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You Need to Let Emplyees Use Social Media at Work – StopBlocking

Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
When working with social media it’s not hard to find a topic to talk about with people you just meet or with old friends for that matter.

One of the trending topics seems to be the discussion of companies closing down the possibility of using social media at work often because [...]

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Settle Your Arguments by Letting the World Decide Who’s at Fault

Written by Thilde Vesterby
Are you having trouble settling an argument or deciding who is right and who is wrong? Well, now you can get help online and let the world decide who’s at fault.
On the community site sidetaker.com and with the Sidetaker Facebook app you can upload your side of the argument and let [...]

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Facebook Groups in New Layout – Watch Out!

Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen

In this high speed evolution environment there was no doubt that it was time for Facebook groups to get a facelift. But is this the right one?
In the beginning of this week, Facebook started to implement the new changes to groups and they’ve probably already changed all 45 million groups [...]

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Mashable’s Open Web Awards

Written by Thilde Vesterby
As they have done last year and the year before, Mashable are now running this years Open Web Awards.

According to Mashable, the Open Web Award is an international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology and achievements in social media.  You can submit any company, brand, person, website hyperlink, [...]

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Blend the World – Interview with the CEO behind the campaign

Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
This post is based on an interview with CEO, Per Gasseholm and Marketing and campaign responsible, Erica Scott from BLEND a/s.
On October 12th I praised the campaign “Blend the World” launched by the Danish clothing designer brand Blend in our blog. It’s a truly great campaign as it focuses on [...]

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Interested in Your Customers Input and Ideas?

Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
Collaboration with your customers is the future! As many have described or mentioned before me: – listening and creating dialogue isn’t rocket science, but it might be difficult to figure out how.
One thing is of course to listen in on conversations on different social media like blogs or Twitter, but [...]

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