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The Ping Thing: Apple Launches A Social Side To iTunes

On September 1st, Apple launched Ping, an iTunes powered “social network for music” to an mix of genuine excitement, apathy and confusion. Does this service offer anything new to the integration of music with social media? We take a look at Jobs’s new endeavour.

Say Hello to Paul, Our Very Affable New Head of Accounts

As our original ad for the role stated, Paul’s job is to be more Mad Men than IM, Twitter, Foursquare and the rest. His job is to talk to all of our clients – preferably at a distance of three paces, and to get the Martinis in whenever they’re needed. Oh, and to always have a glowing report to hand.

Why do 95.769% of Social Media Projects Fail? PLANNING!

In C&M’s experience, failure to deliver value on Social Media projects is 95.769% down to the lack of a plan. Why? Because 95.6579% of the time Social Media is seen as free

Third-Party Like It’s 1999 – A Twitter Apps Update

While Facebook goes all Foursqare with its new Places tool and MySpace launches a revamped user homepage in a desperate attempt to entice some of its users back from the greener grass of Facebook, there have been some exciting developments in the world of Twitter applications. So, without further ado, here are the most important of the lot…

Twitter Search: Using Advanced Operators to Get the Info You Really Need

We all are aware that you can use advanced operators to construct a query in Google, but did you know that a Twitter Search can also be refined to return a more bespoke page of results?

Google News Round Up: Wave, Images and Net Neutrality

If this were the 1920s and I were a 12 year old newspaper tyke in Chicago, I’d be shouting ‘Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Google news, hot off the press!’

Scally Rally 2010: Bring on Team C&M

We’re having a busy summer here at C&M working with some fantastic clients, relaxing in the garden on our giant beanbags…and to top it off we’ll be driving an old banger across Europe in late September! 

Three Important Twitter Conventions and How They Are Used

We often get asked about the numerous Twitter “conventions”, what they mean, how they are used, and when’s appropriate to use them. As such, I thought I’d put together a handy guide on these conventions, which may seem second nature to regular Tweeters, but Double Dutch to the uninitiated.

Top 5 Alternative Search Engines

When it comes to online search, the general consensus is that there can only be one – Google. And for good reason: it’s great at finding stuff. So good in fact, that Google is now synonymous with the word search itself. Google it.

Create Your Own Infographic: Visualisation Tools

We’ve been off searching the internet for the best visualisation tools to display your data. Here’s what we found…

8 Useful Google Search Operator Combinations (feat. Michael Barrymore)

In my last post, I outlined a comprehensive list of Google search operators, and now I’m upping the ante by outlining useful combinations based on my original list…

Truth and Aggregation: Anand Giridharadas

Here’s a lovely presentation from New York Times (and Herald Tribune) columnist, Anand Giridharadas (from a recent talk at the X-Media Lab Conference at the Sydney Opera House)… He’s brilliant. Tune in.

Social Media Agency

(Rocket Science Not Included*)

C&M is a ‘Social Media Agency.’ We’re also an ‘Online PR Agency’ and a ‘Social SEO’ firm …which is to say that we do great PR, acquisition, retention and SEO through the use of Social Media tools, platforms, channels, communities and so on.

Confused? Yes, it’s all a bit mangled isn’t it?

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? A Social Network Post Mortem

In true CSI fashion (except without the big names, Hollywood budget and aviator sunglasses), we try and get to the bottom of the reasons for the massive decline in three former giants of Social Networking.