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5 of the best… apps for marketing and PR professionals

Smartphones offer so many time saving features trying to find the most useful can be overwhelming. Thankfully you don’t have to, just look at this list instead.
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Notes from the office diary

We know blowing our own trumpet doesn’t constitute a good regular read. But there’s big news afoot this month at Smoking Gun HQ.
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News In Tweets – July 2011

4million issues of the final News of the World were bought, said The Sun.
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Interesting insight into social media

Here’s an infographic explaining the relevance of different social media outlets.  Written in updates of course…
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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 22nd July 2011

Manchester v London v Edinburgh in this week's Battle of the Tweets, Murdoch again tops the topics of conversation, Weetabix proves it's the best thing for a big day, while the Sun Online and Mail Online are found to be in contempt of court.
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The Huffington Post UK launches while opinions split

The US news blog's British sister just launched, but as is shown in this video from The Drum, opinion is split.
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Social Media & Digital

Google +1 breaks records

It might not be all good news though, according to Paul Allen, co-founder of Ancestry.com. But if the world's most popular search engine's newly launched +1 is the fastest growing social network ever launched on Earth, what's the big problem?
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The Blagger's Blog 14th July 2011

This week sees Manchester go head to head with London and Toronto in the Tweet world, Orange pimps Facebook profiles, NUJ strike action, and, of course, Murdoch and the News of the World scandal is still just getting going. It's Friday, here are your talking points.
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Facebook numbers fall in key territories

Millions leave Facebook in the US and Canada, while departures in the UK, Russia, and Norway number hundreds of thousands, despite the world's most popular social network rapidly approaching 700million members.
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Recommended Viewing – How Google works

Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were, here's Matt Cutts, a quality engineer at Google, talking about how the world's most popular search engine scours the internet based on our search terms, and, more importantly, sorts the results.
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A Night to Remember

So it’s that time of the year, schools are kicking kids out onto the streets, the media is getting ready to claim exams are getting easier (maybe they are) and the annual arrival of the Ladyboys of Bangkok show to Manchester has come around.
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Quirkies, Weird and Wonderful

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The Blagger's Blog 7th July 2011

The weekly roundup returns... in this issue Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch... along with Kate Moss getting married, robots trying to eat burgers, and the top tweet tags in Manchester, London and Sydney exposed. What more do you need?
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Putting the brakes on BSKYB

The questionable culture in Rupert Murdoch's newspapers seems to have been his own undoing, as ministers look to stall his takeover of BSKYB amid further phone hacking and police bribe scandals.
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