The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer examines trust in four key institutions — government, business, media, and NGOs – as well as communications channels and sources, and has been doing so since 2000.
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The 2012  survey was produced by research firm StrategyOne and consisted of 20-minute online interviews conducted from October 10 – November 30, 2011. The online survey sampled 25,000 general population respondents with an over-sample of 5,600 informed publics in two age groups (25-34 and 35-64) across 25 countries.

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I just spotted a great new messaging app (courtesy of PSFK) called Duet that encourages you to “do things with people you love.”
Heard it all before? Perhaps. But what I like about this new service is that you have the ability to pair yourself with another individual (spouse, colleague, sibling, friend…) and then share activities with them. You get the option to store messages and share photos with your significant other
Duet goes beyond Facebook and Google+ by focusing purely on circles of two which makes sense for people who don’t …

Facebook: what’s not to LIKE? Quite a lot if you consider this list of Zucker-balls-ups created by WordStream.com:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0150p90/
First in a series of specially commissioned short stories from Radio4 inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter.
A daytime TV star’s reputation hangs in the balance when an anonymous woman accuses him on Twitter of having an affair with her. Who is the mysterious tweeter and why is she so determined to destroy the celebrity’s career? ‘Reputation manager’ Bella is called in to handle the situation and, using her I.T. contacts, makes a surprising discovery.
Jojo Moyes is an award-winning author, former newspaper journalist and a regular Tweeter (@jojomoyes). Her story …

I received an email reminder today from Issy Hart from CoSkill about an event that is taking place this Thursday in London.
For those of you who are unaware of CoSkill, it is a really smart business consultancy which has technology at its heart of operations. CoSkill is a big advocate of what it calls ‘future prep’ – preparing their clients for the future and protecting against the ‘surprise factor’ of new and emerging technology – especially within consumer marketing.
Fast Forward to 2012 is a light but insight-packed session, to be …

Guided Collective has created the world’s first live Twitter book signing to launch Lord Sugar’s new book The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations and Rules for Life.
Creative agency Guided Collective devised the Twitter-centric strategy alongside Pan Macmillan to marry the launch activity to the theme of the book – a candid take on modern life from the nation’s favourite straight-talking businessman containing his rants and revelations about key topics of the day.
 

Launching today, Lord Sugar will engage his million-plus Twitter followers by inviting them to tune in to www.lordsugar.tv at 1pm. He will …

Who knew that Facebook’s newest feature was originally conceived by the Mad Men of the 1960s?
In all seriousness the most compelling elements of Facebook’s Timeline are the ones that made Kodak’s Carousel popular. Reminiscing is a social activity. It always has been and now Facebook is bringing that activity online.
 
Don Draper Presents Facebook’s Timeline

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Currently in private beta, Visual.ly is a new tool that allows you to create and share infographics.
Going on the video below, Visual.ly sure seems like a compelling offering – particularly when you consider the lack of tools currently out there available to non-designers to create their own infographic data visualizations.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I have am often impressed with some of the more creative Infographics that appear on my radar. I’m very much of the school of thought that says – produce a report and …

PowperPoint? Boooooo! Prezi? Yaaaaaaay!
Here’s a cool presentation about Twitter by Maria Andersen that I stumbled upon whilst browsing through the public Prezi archive…
[Enjoy]

Mathematweets on Prezi
 

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Check out this infographic from social media agency Ignite Social Media…
Nice to see one of the ‘old boys’ LinkedIn still growing at a healthy rate. Have we reached saturation point with social networks?
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Originally sourced via Mashable

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