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    Getting Creative with sound

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    Neville Hobson

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    6 June 2010

    A name synonymous with personal computers and sound is Creative Technology, the Singapore-based company founded in 1981 that helped kick-start the era of digital multimedia with its Sound Blaster sound cards. More recently, Creative has become well known for its range of portable digital audio players under the Zen brand. Today, Creative is driving its business globally in MP3 players, portable media centres, multimedia speakers and headphones, digital and web cameras, graphics solutions, music keyboards and PC peripherals. A few…

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  • Advertising, Communication, Entertainment, Marketing, Public Relations, Sport

    Football merchandising kicks off

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    Neville Hobson

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    6 June 2010

    It’s under a week to go before the 2010 world cup kicks off in host country South Africa with the first match being Uruguay vs France on June 11. Here in England, it’s now hard to go anywhere without being exposed to the merchandising blitz of products of every shape, size and type that you can buy to show that you support the national team. Flags, stickers, bunting, apparel, toys, accessories, you name it, you can buy it. There’s even…

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    FIR Speakers and Speeches: Maggie Fox on Understanding the New Media Landscape

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    Neville Hobson

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    5 June 2010

    Content summary: Maggie Fox, founder of the Social Media Group, spoke on April 22, 2010 in a breakout session at NewComm Forum 2010 in San Mateo, California. From the NewComm Forum session description: You are wasting millions of dollars online every year. It’s time to stop. This session aims to fully explain the concept of “building channel” and completely change the way you spend your marketing and communications dollars on the web. Join Social Media Group Founder and CEO Maggie…

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  • Communication, Social Media, Society, Trends, Twitter, Web

    The long and the short of it

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    Neville Hobson

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    5 June 2010

    Two surveys published this month by Canadian research firm Sysomos looks at countries around the world and the percentage of people online who blog and tweet. There are some interesting metrics in each analysis  – age distribution and gender, for instance – so it’s worth reading each report if you’re interested in drilling in to the data. One aspect intrigued me: comparing the percentage of people who write blogs – long form content – and those who only use Twitter…

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    FIR Speakers and Speeches: Benjamin Ellis at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

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    Neville Hobson

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    3 June 2010

    The second Dell B2B Social Media Huddle (hashtag: #dellb2b) took place at Microsoft in London on May 25, 2010. The aim of the one-day event was to bring together senior in-house communications and marketing professionals to exchange and share experiences on business-to-business social media for mutual benefit. Each of the presentations, and some of the unconference sessions, were live-broadcast via UStream (see the video recordings) and audio-recorded for FIR Speakers & Speeches podcasts. In this FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast,…

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