Archive for January, 2010

McCann Erickson Bristol Announces Plans for Second Social Media Index

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Following the exposure and global interest generated in 2009 on the UK Marketeers Social Media Index, organisers of the research McCann Bristol will be running a second wave of the survey in the first few months of 2010.
Last year’s research provided a valuable snapshot into how senior marketing and comms professionals are using social media and let to the establishment of the social media team SoMe at McCann Bristol. This year’s index will look at how those attitudes have changed and the possible new developments for the future. If you would like to take part in the online study or would like more information please contact Joanna.Randall@europe.mccann.com before the end of February 2010.

iPad brings twitter to a crawl

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Apple's iPad

It was surely to be expected that the launch of the new Apple product – now known as the ipad – would create such a storm amongst the twitterati? The social media network slowed to a crawl with the amount of activity and excitement around being the first to upload posts about the new product.

The Adventure Starts Here!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

With so many advances in technology over the last decade it’s not inconceivable to think that even the most outrageous suggestions will become reality during the next 10 years.

But perhaps we don’t have to wait too long before some of the many predictions actually become reality. Yesterday was the first day of The Annual International Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. Previous years have seen some notable product announcements including the DVD in 1996, the Xbox in 2004 and more recently the Blu-ray Disc in 2006.

So far this year the biggest news for consumers seems to be focused around 3D technology:

Three-dimension television sets, the stuff of science fiction, will be on sale in British shops from April this year for between £2,000 and £3,000.

Xbox 360 full body motion controls will be on sale in the US for Christmas this year

With this in mind we want you to share your adventures for 2010 and beyond. What are you embarking on, what predictions do you have for 2010 and what’s getting you excited? Your adventure starts here