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What's the secret to Twitter success? If you're not Harry Styles or Coca Cola, you will need help. Step forward, Chris Bolman.

Thinking Digital will be at the Sage Gateshead Music Centre from the 20th-22nd May for the 7th year running and looking at the speaker line up, it is sure to be an event you don’t want to miss. 

Chinwag recently questioned the quality and value of freelance marketplaces. I wanted to provide an alternative perspective, having used such marketplaces to both find work and hire staff.

Email is not the problem. How you manage it is what’s important.

Here’s 5 steps to email liberation from productivity coach Carl Rodrigues :

Part two of Angela Everitt's blog on her Digital Mission experience at Social Media Week New York. 

Buzzwords from Buzzfeed

Learnings from Jonah Peretti, CEO and founder of Buzzfeed

Angela Everitt from Southerly was one of the delegates who joined us on February's Digital Mission stateside. Below you'll find part one of her two part blog on her findings and experiences. 

PsychUps are for anyone interested in exploring the ever-changing world of behavioural science and how it can be applied to business.

Date: Wednesday 5th March 2014

Time: 6pm

Venue: The Bakery London, 25 City Rd EC1Y 1AA (Map)

A brilliant blog from the brilliant Mike Teasdale from Harvest Digital on some of the most important issues marketers are facing when trying to get content right - and identifies some common pitfalls.

Content strategy is one of the most interesting and rewarding areas of digital marketing. From a channel perspective it sits across customer experience, social media and organic search.

Four in every five mobile phone owners leave their devices undefended.

That's the stark message from a new report by Voxburner, showing that only 19% of 16-24s use security software.

Facebook may have paid a pretty penny ($19bn to be exact) for messaging app Whatsapp but it’s their rivals that could see the benefit as they're the ones that are clocking up the number of new users. 

Telegram messenger, to name one.

With Facebook recently turning the big 1 0, there has been talk of it reaching it’s peak. Valued at $150 billion and connecting 1.23 billion users, half the worlds Internet connected population, is this really true? 

Google's recent update to the rules on keywords, links and anchor text in press releases was bad news for some PR and SEO agencies.

The era of low-quality bookmark site links, cleverly embedded links in widgets and mass posting forum comments with optimised links are dead.

Are you a small enterprise looking for some help with funding?

The lovely folks at the Technology Strategy Board are launching a brand new competition for feasibility studies with up to two million pounds available for small micro companies. To see if you’re company fits the criteria, visit here. 

It’s almost time for us to head off to the bright lights of New York City, but before we do, there’s just time to let you know who’s coming and what we’ll be doing.  

This year, we have a very impressive list of start-ups and agencies joining us

• Coull is a technology company that's reinventing the way online video advertising works. 
• Easyfundraising has been at the forefront of developing technology platforms that harness the power of customer loyalty to generate donations for good causes across the globe.