As part of the London Bloggers Meetup ‘bean themed’ meme that’s doing the rounds, here’s my attempt to win a luxury beanbag from Ambient Lounge.  Ambient Lounge’s designer bean bags are hopefully worth the effort that went into compiling this list of bloggers and their ‘bean’ equivalents. Random…
If London Bloggers were beans… what would they be?

TikiChris would be a Polynesian Green Bean
Because ‘Tiki’ refers to large wood and stone carvings of humanoid forms in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. The term is also used as it relates to M?ori mythology where Tiki …

Search and ye shall find… well that’s what Google thinks, but sometimes when you want to tap into the collective search listings of the world, even Google Trends and Google Insights for Search don’t give you that quick snapshot that you’re looking for. That’s where the new Google Beat episodes look to help out.
The short YouTube vids briefly discuss the week’s hot web search trends and aim to give us a flavour of what is trending on Google. In this first epsisode, Google’s Anne Espiritu (who has probably prompted many image searches in …

This SlideShare presentation that I discovered via the brilliant @beth_carroll at social-collective.com made me choke on my cornflakes when I saw it this morning!
This represents thousands of social-meeeedja pitches I’ve seen from tonnes of agencies in the past few years. So true… so funny!
Twankers Social Media Agency Sales Pitch
View more presentations from Tommy Twanker.

About Tommy Twanker
From a bespectacled, snorkel parka wearing, Crackerjack pencil earning child to the world’s number 1 social media guru. Who’d have thought it? Well that is the journey travelled by Tommy Twanker. Still keeping his feet …

Oh dear.
Been testing out the Beeb’s iPlayer BETA for a few weeks now and finally decided to hook up my Facebook and Twitter accounts to enable the BBC’s new ‘recommend’ feature.
I then receive the following email:

and the offending avatar…?

“If you choose to add a Public Profile picture, it will appear on your Public Profile page, and in other places around the BBC website, for example in places where you’ve made a recommendation or a comment that is attributed to you. We moderate all Public Profile pictures before they are published for other …

This afternoon I visited the offices of Tempero – Europe’s largest supplier of social media moderation and management services.
The team I met with do a great job in providing 24/7 specialist moderation for message boards, blogs, commenting, social networking sites and user generated content (UGC) projects.
One of the things I like about Tempero is that they stay ahead of the game in knowing what the legal requirements are when it comes to engaging with your audiences online. The whole area is a potential legal minefield – often with serious repercussions …

I had a really interesting meeting this morning with a fairly senior figure from the UK PR industry. Our conversation steered towards cool consumer campaigns and how much social media can enhance and shape brand reputation. The train of thought evolved naturally to the B2B sectors and the consensus was that there is still a lot of relatively untapped potential in social media that B2B brands could dip into and use to their advantage.
But far too often, the comms industry tends to reserve new platforms to showcase consumer campaigns leaving …

This 10-platform, 42-page Social Media Playbook was created as a veritable “how-to” guide for Eloqua‘s staff to follow on the social web.
It’s a pretty neat guide about social media, distilled into one awesomely designed document (by the chaps at JESS3).
Now you can have it. For free.
Eloqua Social Media Playbook

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Google’s long history of acquisition, innovation, experimentation, successes and failures is dotted with household names (YouTube) and forgotten brands (Jaiku anyone?).
The following Infographic from Mashable puts Google’s Social Media history into the contect of a timeline. I for one, refuse to get excited by the prospect of Google launching it’s Facebook competitor Google Me particularly as I’ve often thrown the full weight of my enthusiasm behind the likes of Orkut, GoogleWave, SideWiki and Aardvark only to be bitterly disappointed.
Anyhooooo….

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The Real Life  Social Networks is a presentation that I discovered via Twitter (thanks @nero) and I’ve decide it to share it all with you as it is one of the best slide shows that I have come across which attempts to debate the usefulness of the ‘friend’ culture currently being fuelled by platforms like Facebook.
The deck is the work of Paul Adams (@padday), Senior User Experience Researcher at Google. As the research lead for sociability, Paul works with teams building products and features for the social web.  His studies into how …

Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mould them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth.
That’s what YouTube wants to do as it launches “Life in a Day,” an ambitious but incredibly compelling project which sets to out to document one day, as seen through the eyes of people around the world.
On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a snapshot of your life on …