Le Meur’s video branding series. 30 videos, 30 days

September 2nd, 2010 by Andy Merchant

The founder of Seesmic and LeWeb, Loïc Le Meur will be releasing 30 videos over the next 30 days via YouTube and iTunes as a podcast.

The videos will be focused on building an online brand and related subjects.

“After many presentations on social networking around the World, I found myself getting the same questions all the time so I decided to share everything I learned in a series of 30 HD videos. They aren’t aimed at experts but rather anyone who would like to learn from scratch how to make the best from social networking and building their brand”

Below is the first, second and third of his 30 HD video series. The rest can be found over the course of the next month via his YouTube Channel http://loic.tv/

      

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Blog comments and dates

September 1st, 2010 by Andy Merchant

As part of my job at Liberate Media, I am constantly reviewing blogs, online news outlets and similar for our clients and Liberate’s own ongoing R&D.
Two things really annoy me!
First is the huge amount of effort that some blogs/news outlets make you go through to add a comment. It’s really off putting!
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Facebook Places round-up

August 23rd, 2010 by Andy Merchant

There has been plenty of conversation surrounding Facebook places over the last week. So, to help you access the discussion around Facebook’s latest launch, The Liberate Media team have put together a collection of their favourite posts in this single “round-up” style blog post.
First off here is the official Facebook Places Check in video.

Facebook Places: [...]

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Fakes and scams!

August 16th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

Two stories caught my eye today.
The first one was featured on Mashable, titled: Facebook Dislike Button Is Fake [WARNING] which is about an unofficial Facebook button. After installing the button you are sent through to a survey, similar to others that Mashable has seen recently. Thanks Mashable for the heads up!
The second was [...]

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Social Media Board Games

August 10th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

With the recent Social Media Monopoly Board Game doing the online rounds I wanted to find out if any other examples existed.
Back in December, the Liberate Media team created Social Media Snakes and Ladders, the Board Game. The game consists of an interactive downloadable pdf including the snakes and ladders board, and the counters (players) [...]

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Crowdsourcing compendium: General resource, case studies, examples and tips

July 20th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

Following on from yesterday’s Location based compendium: The services, resources, Foursquare case studies and stats here’s another helpful compendium this time on ‘Crowdsourcing’ and related topics.
This is how Wikipedia defines crowdsourcing:

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through [...]

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Wanted: Web developer for Pressitt Social Media News Release service

July 19th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

Pressitt the Social Media News Release service is searching for a talented web developer to learn the Pressitt system and help develop the platform further.
If the first project goes well there is plenty more updates/concepts/user feedback to be integrated into the current platform.
The Role: freelance/short term

To develop and improve Pressitt.com on a freelance basis or [...]

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Location based compendium: The services, resources, Foursquare case studies and stats

July 19th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

If you’re a little behind the times and want to understand more about location-based services and related subjects, read on. We have broken this resource down into the following sections; services, general help, case studies,  and to round it off, some helpful statistics and facts.
The Services:
Foursquare: http://foursquare.com/
Foursquare is a location-based social networking website, software for [...]

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Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up (16-07-2010)

July 16th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

Welcome to another instalment of the ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round-up’.
1. Tweet Beat is a simple Firefox or Chrome add on that automatically brings you recent tweets from whoever (or whatever) is mentioned in the web pages you’re looking at.
2. Ckeditor is a plugin for Wordpress. It’s an open source WYSIWYG editor, [...]

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TechCrunch TV

July 13th, 2010 by Andy Merchant

TechCrunch the hugely successful technology and web blog has launched  TechCrunch TV - somehow I missed the launch a couple of weeks back.
TechCrunch TV will be broadcasting daily from its San Francisco studio, and aims to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, developers and start up’s from silicon valley.
To find out more about what TechCrunch TV has [...]

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