It’s that time of the year again when Social Media Week rolls into town. Now in its third year, Social Media Week offers ‘a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world on emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries.’
Of course, we at Neoco will be flexing our social muscle ... Read more
Congratulations to our client The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) and their social networking site Bubbalicious which has just scooped up not one, but two Children & Young People Now awards!
The sixth edition of Children & Young People Now awards has acknowledged the dedication of Bubbalicious in helping out young parents. Bubbalicious have been announced as ... Read more
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The hottest ticket of every tech geek’s calendar, SxSW (South x South West) is an incubator of all things cutting-edge in interactive, music and film. Held annually in Austin, Texas each March, the tech-fest is where digital entrepreneurs from the gadget world come together to celebrate, discuss and showcase burning digital and design issues for the year ... Read more
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If you didn’t catch the documentary Life In a Day on BBC2 last week, it’s well worth tracking down before Saturday. Why? Well on the 12th of November BBC2 are launching Britain In a Day, their own version of the film.
Capturing the zeitgeist of our generation – all footage was filmed on the 24th of ... Read more
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With occupations of Dublin’s Dame Street and planned rallies is Spain and Germany #OccupyTogether and #globaldemocracy tags have spread to draw together the reaction to democratic control over banks worldwide.
The movement is stretching across all social networks. On Tumblr members of the public have been detailing their reasons for supporting the cause via We Are the 99 Percent. On Instagram the #occupy tag pulls together images from the global occupations in Wall Street, The Hague, Sydney and Venice.
Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker wrote on 4th October, “Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice”. But with such enthusiasm and dedication to a cause held in such high regard by so many left in dire straights by the restrictions of financial austerity, the spread of social activism by Facebook and Twitter signals a new generation of people actually taking to the streets and making their virtual voices heard in the real world.
With live blogging and tweeting of events as they happen from the occupation, follow #OccupyLSX for updates from the front line of the protest.
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The focus on Wall Street’s role in the global banking crisis has switched to London this week as protesters plan to occupy the London Stock Exchange from midday Saturday. A middle finger up to the global financial corporations after a year of economic discontent, the Occupy London Stock Exchange site has been set up to ... Read more
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We all know that in the wrong combination alcohol and social media equate to a potent recipe for disaster. However, executed in the right order, the two are pretty good bed-fellows. Social media offers an ideal platform to link alcohol brands to their brand values, a middle man giving the drink a persona and voice ... Read more
Brought together by the power of social media, Thursday 30th June saw a flash mob of Londoners congregating in Soho Square with just one thing on their mind: planking. Attempting to set an unofficial world record and to celebrate Social Media Day 2011, the flash mob hit the deck at 13:13, much to the bemusement ... Read more
Back in the days when the dial-up warble to connect to the internet was a painful but necessary part of a working day – if you’d suggested a communication tool capable of facial recognition and political revolutions, you’d probably have got a funny look and a warning not to take Minority Report too seriously. But ... Read more
As a part of my duties as an intern at Neoco, I was invited to attend the fabulously techie Internet World exhibition at Earls Court last week. After coming to terms with the sheer size of the show and the huge number of exhibitions stands surrounding me, I collected my “info bag” and began to ... Read more
As part of my Neoco baptism, last week I attended a gamification event at the inaugural Digital Shoreditch Festival. Gamification is most definitely a buzzword for 2011, and some are boldly claiming that by 2015 half of all companies will have somehow adopted gaming elements in their work and embraced gamification, so it was great ... Read more