Music has always been a love of mine, even though I never seem to talk about it you can always find me on iTunes and other music website looking for new talent to listen to. My recent “daydream to work” play-lists have consisted of Ingrid Michaelson, Tristan Prettyman, Brooke Fraser & Amy Macdonald to name but a few. So I was delighted to find a tweet on Twitter this morning by Katy Beale linking to an article listing 10 New women in music worth checking out in which a found the delightful voice of Diane Burch. I am yet to listen to the rest of the album but this happy-go-lucky song called Valentino has got me hooked. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did
//EDIT – And here is another recommendation (thanks again @katybeale) check out the wonderful Alela Diane
This video had me in hysterics this morning on the tube to work, much to the dismay of the other commuters. It needs no introduction, its just pure genius! Here is the one and only, Piano Chat Improv guy:
With thanks to clicky media, Here’s your latest round up of Social Media stats for February 2010!
Social Networking websites continue to grow on a huge scale with Facebook recently announcing that they have now reached over 400 million worldwide users and Twitter soon to be reaching the benchmark of 50 million tweets per day. Facebook and Twitter also both boasted a triple-digit growth in 2009 with social networking now accounting for 11% of all time spent online.
Its to no surprise that with the growth of Facebook, brands in their hundreds are flocking to Facebook to build or cement their brand presence and digital footprint. For the bigger brands, they can hire the special agency with a plethora of knowledge to get the hard work done for them and go leaps and bounds, but what about the smaller companies that have to do in house? Well, here are some tips collated from around the web to help people to setup their fan page, how the get those fans and how to use Facebook effectively.
A question I am often asked is why a fan page? why not just a group? Good question, one that Mashable has answered on its thread titled: difference between Facebook pages and groups. But for those lazy bones out there he is a summary:
For personal or smaller scale interaction then a group is great for this but Pages are better for brands, businesses, celebrities, bands all of whom want to interact with their “fans” without having them connected to a person account. Remember, there is a 5000 friend cap on Facebook, so you are limiting yourself with a personal account. The great thing about Pages is that you can grow as big as you want whilst keeping the focus on the organisation and sending messages, notifications and updates to large numbers of people, unlimited infact.
You know, I can’t remember the last time I had a good night sleep. I have been commuting into London for over 7 months now and I can’t recall a single day when I have woken up feeling totally refreshed and said to myself ‘that was a good sleep’. But then again, who actually says that anyway, “that was a good shower”…… Tw@t!
I have never heard of this band before but I must give them massive kudos for their recent music video. In 2006 they jumped on treadmills and came up with another great music video, but there recent effort just blows their 2006 attempt out of the water! The video, seen below has had nearly 3.5 million hits on You Tube (in under a week), the video features the most elaborate ‘domino’ style set-up I have possibly ever seen.
If the recent Fantastic Mr Fox movie is anything to go by, the chicken & the fox battle can only go one way… or can it? The Metro this morning reported on a certain Chickan called ‘Dude’ who isn’t so “chicken” after all. A less than fantastic Mr Fox was found dead, apparently from several head wounds. The suspects: Dude, Izzy, Pongo and Pecky, four birds who played chicken with the fox and, it would appear, won.
Sorry Ladies, unless you are peckish for some Sushi you will have to get the Weather Girls to sing a little harder if you want some hunks to fall from the sky.
Yes, another Metro story comes to Joe’s Blogg, this time in the form of raining fish!
Just stumbled upon this interesting diagram from Flowtown.com on how social engagement is changing. The useful of social media marketing is often pulled into question with the biggest being who and how many are not only joining the conversations but engaging with them. Flowtown used stats from a recent study conducted by PostRank and have kindly illustrated what is happening in the Internet’s social community — how people are communicating, what is changing, and where people are doing the talking. Read the rest of this entry »
