Social media

Instagramers Gdansk cover football match live

by Peter Horsten on June 2, 2013

IMG 3768 300x300 Instagramers Gdansk cover football match liveToday live coverage of the Lechia Gdansk football match on Instagram by a group of local active Instagramers. Probably it’s the first time in Poland that such an event is being covered by using Instagram. Igersgdansk, the Gdansk based Instagram group, selected Instareporters based on the best pictures with the tag #igersgdansk on Instagram. I got invited as well, but unfortunately I cannot make it today. My son, supervised by my wife, will be there. For him, being a real football fan, it will for sure be an amazing experience and I will follow them on my phone.

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You just cannot ignore social media any longer

January 2, 2013

Last weekend I presented the “Do’s and don’ts of social media” in front of a group of friends. Knowing that I’m using social media for a long time and that I was teaching about this subject at the University of Gdansk, they asked me to share my experiences with them. Upfront I realised I would [...]

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Be warned: Online reviews often fake [Infographic]

December 24, 2012

Online shopping is booming, no secret about that. We’ve already reported that also this Holiday Season we all together are buying more online than ever before. Probably, just like others, you heavily rely upon others’ opinion before you decide what to buy. Nothing strange about that because over 83% of buyers do so. But don’t [...]

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Facebook stimulates to be social by design

October 18, 2011

Facebook’s keynote was announced with pride by the eCommerce Expo 2011 organization. Seeing long queues in front of the keynote theater, from a visitor attraction perspective it was really a strategic move to have Ivan Heneghan at the expo. It seems online retailers are expecting a lot from Facebook, despite Miki Balin’s message that Facebook [...]

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90% of consumers base their decision on peer recommendations

June 14, 2011

Did you realize “we” don’t trust advertisements anymore? Only about 14% of consumers still trust them. The majority relies on their peer’s opinion before they will buy something. A trend defined before as “The Groundswell“. The best way to stimulate peer recommendations is word of mouth. But for marketeers this is hard to handle. Social [...]

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The ultimate like feeling

April 26, 2011

Source: Geek and Poke

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Tweeting while having diner happens to me as well

March 15, 2011

When someone is having a phone call in a public area we in general don’t like this. Compared to this, communicating by social networks is a lot better, less noisy. But social media can be a bit to attention consuming. It happens too me as well. Source: Geekandpoke

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Tweetboard promises more social media engagement

August 12, 2010

Tweetboard is the new kid on the social media block. This new tool, released just some days ago, promises to stimulate social media interaction among the visitors of a single website or blog. Will Tweetboard proof its value? Let’s just give it a try to find out. Just click the tiny “Tweets” label at the [...]

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Flipboard could be such a reason to buy an iPad

July 22, 2010

Yesterday a new App arrived at the iPad App Store: Flipboard. Since then this new application managed to gain a lot of attention. Basically the application shows content coming from your social network streams. The presentation is awesome. You can just read the information as a magazine by flipping the pages. For me this App [...]

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NEW: HootSuite5 with HTML5, geo-search, themes, Google Analytics and native re-tweets

June 24, 2010

Today my HootSuite client was offline for a while, which was a big surprise. In general Hootsuite is a very reliable service. Fortunately, I was informed this was due to a remarkable update. Some time late I noticed significant changes to the social media dashboard beginning with a completely refreshed HTML5 user interface, plus geo-located [...]

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