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Twitters Traffic Generation

August 17th, 2009 by Simon Cox

As with any new ‘channel’ talk soon turns to how to make money from it, and Twitter is no different. Hitwise’s research director, Robin Goad, blogs on some interesting Twitter numbers here:

Twitter sending traffic to online media but not retail.

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The Sheriff and his Deputy are back in town

August 17th, 2009 by Sammi Edwards

Another series of The Apprentice has flown by this year and we are starting to get to grips with the types of candidates that Sir Alan is looking to hand over a six figure salary and swish London job to after a series of gruelling business tasks and boardroom bashings.

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Work Experience at HRO’C

July 2nd, 2009 by Izzie Barber

When you hear the words ‘work experience’ in an all girls’ school, you get many different reactions to being “out in the real world”, as the teachers like to call it.

“Yesssss, no more school for two weeks.”
“I’m going to the zoo because I want to be a hippo.”
“Oh no, I’ve got to work with my dad at his office where everyone is over 60 and grey.”
“Good, a chance to buy some more clothes”

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Diary of a displaced cat in a cruel digital world – Part 1

June 10th, 2009 by Mark Cheatham

Breadcrumbs
Just the other day, some account handler innocently enquired how, at my age, I managed to stay up to speed with all the myriad digital developments.

Er, at my age?

Somehow resisting the urge to dispatch the impertinent upstart to the account handler graveyard in the sky with a conveniently close hole punch, whilst at the same time reminding them of my director status and their impending joblessness, I instead found myself recalling a conversation I’d had a couple of years before.

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Bing was Live & Live was Dead

June 9th, 2009 by Mark Shergold


Within the search industry, talk is always turning to the fate of MSN and Yahoo in the search engine wars that are dominated by the heavyweight champion of search: Google. Recent attention has focused on MSN with its many management changes and developments, and, in particular, on its newly branded search engine called Bing.

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