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How To Guides

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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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Events

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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Media News

Quirkies, Weird and Wonderful

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The Blagger's Blog

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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Media News

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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Media News

The sum of all fears?

UKOM / Nielsen report worrying figures for the press as top news sites such as BBC, The Guardian, MSN, Yahoo!, and Telegraph may well be experienced reductions in online readers.
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Media News

Quirkies, Weird and Wonderful

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Social Media & Digital

The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 1st July 2011

A weekly roundup of talking points, sans effort, with Cheryl Cole vs the Belfast riots and Greenpeace vs Volkswagen, while Manchester, London, and New York's most tweeted #tags are exposed. The Blagger's Blog - starting conversations from thin air since 2011.
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Guest Post

Not Always App-propriate

Peter Craven is the joint managing director of Madhouse Associates, a Manchester based integrated marketing agency which boasts Toyota and Motorola amongst it’s enviable client list. In this guest blog post Peter gives his opinion on following the latest marketing trends. The media landscape is constantly changing, particularly with the incessant growth of the digital … Continued
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Marketing

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Social Media & Digital

Ad Wars: Attack of the clones

Greenpeace takes on VW with marketing attack for latest episode of Ad Wars. George Lucas has not been linked to the project.
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Social Media & Digital

Shock switch for Smoking Gun MD Rick Guttridge: ‘Social media is a waste of time’

Social media is a waste of time. Smoking Gun's main man Rick Guttridge opens the discussion.
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Media News

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Social Media & Digital

Night of the long search terms

New functions and smear campaigns are emerging faster than the glint of a dagger in the dark. Welcome to the global conflict; it’s Facebook v Google.
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How To Guides

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How to… create engaging video content

We guide you step by step through the process of producing great moving pictures for online brand promotion.
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Social Media & Digital

We could tell you (but then we’d have to kill you)

PR is the careful management of a public reputation, which sometimes includes dousing the flames of scandal. We explain.
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Media News

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News in Tweets

Our monthly explosion of 140 character news stories.
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