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Learnings from #iotlondon

Digital PR Feb 20, 13 by Steven Craig

The event chaired by @iotwatch saw three speakers take the stage over the course of an hour, with around 40 people in attendance. Usually at events with speakers I'm only there for the free beer, but these people were fascinating and showing off some amazing stuff.

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OMG! Early Twitter Drama at the 2012 London Games

Social Media Jul 31, 12 by Dan Osburn

We knew that this year’s Olympic Games would be the world’s first Socialympics, with a record-breaking number of spectators tweeting, checking in and uploading footage to Instagram and YouTube. We also knew that we’d have unprecedented access to athlete’s live ...

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Socialympics: Social Mobile Games if the Mobile Networks #Fail?

Jul 30, 12 by Dan Osburn

One of our major predictions about the Games last week was that one or more of the main mobile networks will crash. There's about 8 million people in London, and another 6 million are estimated to be visiting throug ...

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Socialympics Predictions: what’s going down at the Games

Buzz Monitoring Jul 25, 12 by Dan Osburn

We’ve all been waiting for the Games with baited breathe for ages now – and the hour is finally upon us. We’ve got our research team ready to start sifting through all of the buzz, eager to produce insightful content. But before we do, here are some Socialympics predictions from ...

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Jam celebrates 50th anniversary of the St Giles Trust

People Mar 26, 12 by Claire Collings

Last night saw the launch event marking the 50th anniversary of St Giles Trust. From its origins in the Crypt of St Giles Church, Camberwell, St Giles Trust is now one of the leading charities helping ex-offenders rehabilitate.  Fifty years and an estimated 400,000 clients later, St Giles Trust works in prisons and communities offeri ...

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Slicker Than Your Average

Social Commerce Sep 20, 11 by Dan Osburn

Yesterday Burberry showed their Prorsum collection at London fashion week. In keeping with previous years they had super slick live streaming of the guests arrivals and full show on their site and Facebook page. This year however they have gone further by rewarding their Twitter followers with Twitpics of the whole collection moments befo ...

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For Better or Worse - our thoughts on yesterday's riots committee meeting

Social Media Aug 26, 11 by Andy Hyland

On 7th August 2011, our Strategy Director, Jonathan Akwue wrote this post on his blog about the use of BBM to fuel the riots in London. His coverage was picked up by the media and covered on blogs, newspapers and news sites wor ...

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Keep Calm and Carry On? Against the Riots - Be the Change

Buzz Monitoring Aug 16, 11 by Dan Osburn

After the devastation of the 2011 riots we saw hope break despondency and the communities of ‘broken Britain’ rally together to show courage and solidarity in the face of adversity. As quickly as social media was attributed to fueling the riots, so was it quick to facil ...

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The London Riots - Don't Shoot The Messenger

Mobile Aug 11, 11 by Mel Kirk

Over the last few days London and other parts of the country have seen unprecedented levels of violence and disorder following the riots that began in Tottenham on Saturday night. As the violence and looting erupted on that night, I wrote a post on my ...

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The Social Olympics; an expected surge for geo-location apps

Geo Targeting Aug 4, 11 by Mel Kirk

With the Olympic games fast approaching, many marketeers are still left wondering how to associate their brands. Jam's MD Alex Miller speaks to Brand Re ...

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