TheWayoftheWeb

There’s been a lot of discussion about the new MA in Social Media course being offered by Birmingham City University. On the one hand, the mainstream media reports from the Guardian and Daily Telegraph have focused on criticism – on the other, people like the esteemed PR professional Neville Hobson have looked more in-depth at [...]

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A couple of interesting campaigns have come my way via a couple of agencies I know.
The first is the WWF Earth Hour, which is the campaign to get everyone to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28, at 8.30pm. You can sign up to the movement, download posters, toolkits and resources [...]

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Wow.
Click through to Youtube to watch the video below in all it’s full-sized glory.

It’s a 24 hour observation of large airline flights condensed into just over a minute, found via Musings of an Opinionated Sod. And his closing sentence beautiful sums up how the ways we produce great content can, will, and has changed, whether [...]

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In celebration of the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, Suw Charman Anderson has encouraged people to blog, Twitter and celebrate women in tech who we admire.
The aim was to get 1000 people to sign up, and at the time of writing, 1678 have pledged on the site.
So what’s my contribution?
Well, there are plenty of admirable [...]

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