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LinkedIn Signal LinkedIn Signal should be available for most of you today. If you haven't already seen it, it allows you to create live, dynamic searches for topics of interest to you - just...

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Community and Social Media Promotion Manager - Gibraltar A really exciting opportunity has come onto Carve's radar for a Community and Social Media Promotion Manager, based in Gibraltar. The role offers an unique opportunity...

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Career Networking on Facebook Following today's  Mashable article about Facebook Careers app BranchOut, it's high time we devoted some time to looking at its implications for individuals and employers...

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WordPress Adds new Likes and Reblog This buttons. Trying to make their user-friendly blogging platform a little bit more social, WordPress just added a "Like" button (just like the new famous Facebook one) as well as the...

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LiveLABS @ TruLondon On Thursday and Friday this week I’ll be leading two tracks at TruLondon (http://thetruconferences.com/) that we hope will turn into something pretty special. We’ve...

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The New Twitter

Posted on : 15-09-2010 | By : Adelaide | In : Twitter

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Lovely film launching The New Twitter, which of course we’re all very excited about.

Not been upgraded yet? Login to this app that will DM you the moment Biz Stone gives you the OK. And if you really can’t wait to know all there is to know about it, Tim Bradshaw has just published a review on his FT blog.

TweetDeck on Android…

Posted on : 12-08-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, The Social Company, Twitter

News today that the popular TweetDeck will soon be released on Android. For further info read:

http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/tweetdeck-for-android/

La Poste delivers real-time customer service via Twitter

Posted on : 28-07-2010 | By : christophe | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

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Let’s say you just sent a DVD to one of your friends and would like to be informed about how this is going.
In addition to a classic phonecall or customer service website visit, you can now follow your mail journey on Twitter with La Poste.
The process is as innovative as it is simple. You simply send your reference number mentionning @suivi_avec_lisa and you will then be sent a Direct Message every time your mail’s status is updated.

Brilliant, right?

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Is Facebook taking over?

Posted on : 07-07-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, The Social Company, Twitter

Fascinating stats about how facebook received more traffic than google over christmas

http://ht.ly/27Z1J

1/3 of social media users feedback on companies online

Posted on : 05-07-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

Yet another stat to indicate how important social media is for companies to manage their online reputation.

http://ht.ly/25Nvh

Promoted Tweets have great impact for Coca-Cola

Posted on : 29-06-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Consultant blogs, Twitter

New promoted tweets seem to be having an instant impact already

Soft-drink giant Coca-Cola has seen ‘phenomenal’ results from its purchase of promoted tweets on Twitter, witnessing 85 million views within the first 24 hours.

Look at: http://www.iabuk.net/en/1/cocacolaenjoysphenomenalresultsfrompromotedtweets280610.mxs

Tweeting in the political field

Posted on : 29-06-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

How you can get into contact with the US senators through twitter and actually see the effects: http://carlanderson.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-media-political-engagement.html

Social Media up 230% since 2007

Posted on : 29-06-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

Article about the rise and rise of social media in the US:

The love affair between Internet-connected Americans and social networks continues, with two-thirds claiming to visit sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, up about 230% from the 20% penetration in 2007, and 43% are visiting these sites more than once a day, according to a new report by Experian Simmons.Multiple visits are up 28% compared with last year, the Simmons New Media study determined.

for further information go to: http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/web_services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225701600&subSection=News

Twitter plotted as a contour map

Posted on : 29-06-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

Twitter as a contour map of London! Look at: http://londonist.com/2010/06/londons_twitter_traffic_mapped_as_c.php

Scout lab

Posted on : 25-06-2010 | By : george@carveconsulting.com | In : Carve Consulting Blog, Twitter

A similar product to radian 6 called scout lab which looks also analyses internet traffic data. For further information look at:

http://www.scoutlabs.com/product/#tour