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IT’S A DIGITAL LIFEPeople in the 21st Century increasingly perceive themselves and each other through their“digital selves.” The digital self, which can be made up of avatars, blogs, profiles, posts,tweets, videos, images, statuses, likes, check-ins, badges—and much more—communicates,transacts, and interacts with others in a “social fabric” of ...

In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

2011 ended pretty much as it began, and at the same lightening speed... seems to be true what your parents and grand parents tell you, that the older you get the quicker the time passes, and this year seemed to go particularly fast, well in this bloggers opinion at least! 2011 saw a number of key events, and one of those was the inevitable ...

Last week, Marketing Week magazine celebrated the importance of data at its annual Data Strategy Awards, a gala event attended by more than 500 of our industry's movers and shakers. And walking off with the top award in the Social Media category was our own 'NL Daily' social hub project for our client, New Look. You can read all about it on page ...

Over the next 2 weeks EMC Consulting are hosting 3 very exciting events. If you have not signed up click on the link you are interested in, be quick as last few places left. Wednesday 12th October – Silverlight User Group (/BUILD/ Conference Roundup & First Hands On WinRT) Thursday 13th October – The Fantastic Tavern (the ROI of ...

On Thursday 13th October we are hosting the next Fantastic Tavern.  We are inviting our Knights Taverners to take on the quest of finding the holy grail of social aka money….. To find out more about the night and how to register, click here.

The Dadi website says “When you win a Dadi (Drum Award for the Digital Industries) the world will know that you make digital work.”  I am excited to say that our work with New Look has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Digital Media Strategy category for 2011. Fingers crossed for the 11th November when the winners are announced….

Last Thursday 7th July 2011 we held the biggest tavern event on the hot topic of gamification.  “The last decade was the decade of social. The next decade will be the decade where game framework is built” Seth Priebatsch, Founder of SCVNGR I was going to write a highly entertaining blog that filled you in on all the details but I got ...

We live in a connected planet - one world, one voice? Perhaps not, but technology has enabled a wider reaching voice, a voice of the previously muted, gagged, censored... but no more. What has technology unleashed? A torrent of people round the world sharing images, stories, support, freedom and some heartfelt plea's, but not for money, but to ...

What else is bubbling away in the darkened beanbags in Silicon Valley that is blending the Geek thinking with your average consumer of social stuff... Facebook  developers have been busy creating some great applications and platform developments, as they continue to rally to Mark Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook being the next pervasive ...