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Our Social Times
http://oursocialtimes.com
Our Social Times is a news and review site for social media and social networking. Written by Luke Brynley-Jones, social media consultant and product manager, it combines reviews of social networks and social media monitoring tools with eclectic posts on that art of product management and mysteries of social networking.
Recent Posts
The Top 10 Viral Video Adverts of 2009 And Why They Worked so Well
I spent a greatly amused hour watching Mashable’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2009” today. The list includes slick agency produced ads, amateur films, bloopers, spoofs, a protest video and a wonderfully botched Windows 7 video fr...
Monitoring Social Media 09: A Short Funky Video
We don’t yet have the full video footage of Monitoring Social Media 09 (MSM09), so we’ve put together a funky little video using pics from the day. We used Animoto for this which, if you’re interested, is a really, mind-crushingly s...
The Business Case for Social Media Monitoring
I’m (finally!) able to publish the excellent presentation that Ann Longley, Strategy Director at MediaEdge: CIA, gave at Monitoring Social Media 09 last month. Her insights into the “new stock exchange” of brands – based on th...
Social Media Monitoring Goes Niche
One of the most interesting points made at Monitoring Social Media 09 last month was the suggestion from Matthäus Krzykowski (VentureBeat) that monitoring could be made more accurate by narrowing the focus of the tools down to a specific industry. I...
The London Inbound Marketing Meetup – 18th December
Inbound Marketing is a well known division of marketing in the US, yet to date it remains relatively uncommon in the UK. I recently gave a seminar to a room full of students at University Campus Suffolk and only a couple had heard of it. Given that i...
What is Inbound Marketing?
This is a question I get asked a lot – so here’s the short answer… Inbound Marketing is designed to harness the three most powerful elements of Internet marketing into a single, connected, trackable process. The starting point i...

