Archive for January, 2011
Badges you’ve earned it
For someone who was in the Cubs (Cooking and Bob-a-job were my most famous badges I had on my sleeve) and we all know Foursquare rewards you with their badges which I love and with pictures now included I’m expecting 4Q to be even bigger this year – all in all badges seem to be [...]
Posted: by kevin.ferry on January 31st, 2011
Categories: Trends.
Tags: badges, foursquare, rewards
Comments: 3
Online education tools A+
When most people think of social networks, they think of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or similar sites, but there are many other types of social networks popping up on the web. Some of the fastest growing networks are designed specifically for education. These sites allow people to learn in a social context through discussion, file sharing, [...]
Posted: by kevin.ferry on January 28th, 2011
Categories: Social media.
Tags: education
Comments: 1
Smart Car or Stupid Car?
I’ll be honest, I don’t get the point of a Smart car. They’re too small to be any real use as a car – more like a motorbike with a hard cover and no boot space.
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 25th, 2011
Categories: Technology.
Tags: concepts, ideas
Comments: none
Royal Engagement Facebook Fail
I’m not exactly a Monarchist (and have paid for it dearly over the years being married to an Englishman) so I found this …
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 25th, 2011
Categories: Social media.
Tags: Creative, facebook, Social media, viral
Comments: none
How Facebook changed a town’s name
Sometimes you see Facebook get used for all sorts of dodgy things, like Bing Lee’s attempt using the Queensland Floods, and then every now & again you see a great use of the medium, like Pedigree’s Dog Adoption Drive and now this, a town named Speed changing it’s name to SpeedKills.
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 25th, 2011
Categories: Social media, Zuni loves.
Tags: community, Creative, facebook, fan page, ideas, marketing, online, Social media, strategy
Comments: none
Wikileaks for Movies
I’m not going to get all political on you and talk about Wikileaks, but what I will do is share the humour …
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 25th, 2011
Categories: Zuni loves.
Tags: concepts, Creative, IT, marketing, online, viral
Comments: none
Brilliant IKEA banner ads
This is such clever work from IKEA who have managed to reinvent the coolness of a banner and use the actual display positions as key to their advertising. Whilst I’m truly hopeless at building furniture…
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 25th, 2011
Categories: Creative, Zuni loves.
Tags: concepts, Creative, marketing, online, Retail
Comments: none
Best of the Digital Decade
The One Club have put a nice collation together of the Top 10 Digital executions of the decade and I’m pleased to say that I’ve reported on most of these over the last 12 months. One that I hadn’t seen and am really impressed with is #6 Chalkbot
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 24th, 2011
Categories: Creative, Technology, Zuni loves.
Tags: concepts, Creative, Crowd Source, marketing, viral
Comments: none
11 Consumer Trends for 2011
Everyone’s in on the act of collating the “best of” for the year that’s been, the decade that’s been and the years to come. So now it’s consumer trends from Trendwatching, all 11 of them for 2011
Posted: by Valentina Borbone on January 24th, 2011
Categories: Trends.
Tags: facebook, marketing, Retail, small business, Social media
Comments: none
Floods and social media etiquette
It has been a very emotional time and no doubt what happened in Queensland will go down in Australia’s young history as one of their worst natural disasters we have witnessed thankful the water levels did not reach 1974 standards but the financial investment and the rebuilding of Brisbane and the surrounding towns is going to [...]
Posted: by kevin.ferry on January 18th, 2011
Categories: Crowdsource.
Tags: Charity, community, ideas, Social media
Comments: none

