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The Heineken Social Christmas Tree

Adam — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:55:21 +0000

Is your Christmas tree social? We don't mean the family getting together to decorate the tree with ball balls, we're talking about the worlds most social tree ever created: The Heineken Social Christmas Tree. Singapore's Clarke Quay will be the venue for the 11 meter tall digital art installation incorporating 48 LCD TV screens all connected to Facebook designed by Iris Worldwide. Consumers can add their own photos, friends, custom messages, animation and music via the Facebook App. The tree along with it's social digital content will all be displayed 17th-26th of December.

Heineken is no stranger to social media, they have a long line of successful campaigns including the beer keg campaign. This is a company that knows how to connect digital, social media and real world art installations to promote their brand and to create enjoyable and memorable experiences.

Will Google+ Project Challenge Facebook?

Jerry Holliday — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:42:07 +0000

Google’s latest attempt to challenge Facebook’s continuing dominance of the social web is coming in the form of the Google+ project featuring a series of functions that allow users to share updates, photos and other information and media, not too…

Getting Social with SEO

Jerry Holliday — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:11:43 +0000

With the announcement of Bing Social last year and now with the recent launch of the Google +1 button to challenge the famous Facebook 'Like' button, it is crystal clear that Social and SEO are on the same course. With Google’s +1 button users will be able to vote up search results, and pretty soon search results will be recommended to you based on whether any of your contacts have +1ed a webpage. Admin will show Activity stats such as who has +1′d your site as well as age and sex and location.

Silicon valley says businesses need to get more social

Jerry Holliday — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:08:38 +0000

The message was clear to business at last weeks annual web 2.0 summit in San Francisco: Get Social! Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, having annouced his sites' new social messaging system, stated that "over the next five years almost every product vertical on the web is going to be rethought to be social - Get on the bus."

Look Out for New Twitter!

Jerry Holliday — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:17:13 +0000

The New Look Twitter has been rolled out in the US and will be here in the UK very shortly. The new design will @mentions, retweets, searches, and lists just above your timeline – creating a single, streamlined view on…

Social Media Mistakes

Jerry Holliday — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:07:09 +0000

Social Media and Social Networking can be great marketing tools for your business, but are you going about it in the right way? Here are just a few pointers. What’s Your Master plan?… It is essential to have a plan

The Changing Face of Online Search and SEO

Jerry Holliday — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:25:31 +0000

The world of Internet search is changing fast, especially the world of Google search. You may have noticed when doing searches that there are a lot real-time results such as Twitter, Facebook and other social network content, although Google can only index status updates from Facebook Pages – which are "for organisations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to broadcast great information to fans in an official, public manner."