August 2011

Competition: Win Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 Ticket

Social Media

Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 (Mon 19th September) will feature Guardian Tech Editor, Charles Arthur, "Rage Against the X-Factor" Facebook activist, Jon Mortor, Play.com, Vue Cinemas plus a hat-full of case studies and social media marketing examples.

Organisers, Our Social Times, have kindly offered one lucky Chinwagger the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £195.00

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Monday 12th September and a ticket could be yours.

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8 August 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Competition: Win Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference Tickets

Green Data Center

The Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference (25th - 27th October) will foster an educational environment that aims to allow you to analyse new techniques that will not only help our environment, but also save your organisation time and money.

We're delighted that organisers, GSMI, have offered 2 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth up to £1290.00.

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Tuesday 18th October and a ticket could be yours.

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8 August 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Mining Google Trends: Facebook Dominant in Search, Duking It Out With Twitter in News

Google Trends: blog, twitter, msn messenger, email, newspaper

Using Google Trends and the popularity of search terms as a guide to media consumption certainly isn't bulletproof, but reading Matthew Slight's post about the shift in media consumption inspired a spot of digging. And boy, is Facebook having an impact on search terms - just look at the graph above.

I can't work out whether it must be slightly galling for Google search execs to watch one of their main rivals rocket in popularity, or are they rubbing their hands with glee at all the data gathered about user's interaction with Facebook?

Whilst Facebook and Twitter are both ramping up their sales functions in the UK, sheer numbers play a factor, but influence will play a critical factor in grabbing those marketing dollars.

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7 August 2011 by Sam Michel

Tag Clouds on Steriods: New Techniques for Visualising Social and Mass Media Big Data [video]

Screenshot from Deb Roy's TED Talk: Birth of a Word

I love me a Wordle. If you're the same and you're interested in some ground-breaking techniques to visualise big data in real-time this video is worth a watch.

Deb Roy's research starts with an experiment to parse 90,000 hours of video to chart his infant son's discovery of language through to analysis of online comments, sentiment and social connections during President Obama's State of the Union address.

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6 August 2011 by Sam Michel