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Last weekend I had the tough job of going all the way to Newquay for the Relentless Boardmasters festival.  A festival celebrating music, surfing and boardsports – 5 hours on the train from Neoco HQ brought me to Cornwall (for the first time) where I was blogging, tweeting and status updating for our client Ubisoft ... Read more

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Here at Neoco we try and avoid jargon like the plague (or would swine flu be more relevant? – benn). We also accept that in the world of digital marketing there is a constant attempt to create buzzy little phrases. This months winner is NaBloPoMo.
NaBloPoMo stand for National Blog Posting Month and is an initiative ... Read more

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http://ping.fm/fNXco – we are now offering a selection of digital marketing workshops and seminars to clients (brands and other agencies).
We often get clients asking us about all these different channels and the best way to communicate across them. Good news is that we are going to start running workshops and training days to ... Read more

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Every now and then something happens to remind me of the power of the Internet and why I love it. The latest came in early February this year when the celebrity gossip website TMZ published a recording of Christian Bale throwing a bit of a strop on the set of his new movie, Terminator Salvation. ... Read more

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There are many microblogging services out there: Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr (naming a few). For each service usually you have to: open the browser, login, write message, click post. Although some cut and paste can save you some time, the task can get boring and time consuming if you have ‘friends’ and profiles on them all. ... Read more

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The University of Washington’s World Information Access report (WIA) has shown that since 2003, at least 64 people have been arrested for blogging about political issues - for exposing corruption in goverment, the abuse of human rights or for just generally criticising governments. In 2008, it is likely that more bloggers than ever will face arrest as a result of the growing political ... Read more

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We’ve just come across a really nice article, explaining how the web has impacted  journalism. The article, written by independent journalist, Bill Thompson, outlines some of the key changes relating to news online, and how they have affected journalism. These include:

Blogging turning from a ‘curious habit of the self-obsessed into a defining use of the ... Read more

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When the Digital Training Academy ran one of their Social Media training events, I dropped by to share some thoughts about how you can measure and track performance in social media. At Neoco we’re big fans of blogging, but most firms still make a hash of it, failing to listen to their markets and failing ... Read more

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Breakfast today consisted of a very interesting chat with Hugh Macleod (pictured above). Hugh is a guru amongst the blogoshphere and is also infamous for his Microsoft blue monster series of cartoons.
One of the key topics discussed was about monetising blogging and the metrics behind it but soon we were talking about social objects and ... Read more

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Today, I am pleased to upload a guest entry to the neoco blog by Ivan Pope – the British ‘been there and done that’ web guru. This is a terrific read and well worth the 5 mins of reading time. Thanks Ivan. On with the show…
“Driving home late last night I was listening to a ... Read more