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New Facebook designs leak out
community.brandrepublic.com - 20 hours ago
New Facebook designs leak out
— community.brandrepublic.com — Some new designs for Facebook pages have appeared with changes to its home page, search becoming more... prominent (no surprise there) and a few other tweaks. French tech blog PCinpact.com came across the pages, but there has been no response from Facebook according to Business Insider as yet to ... (more) New Facebook designs leak out

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Pay wall day – Johnston Press begins charging for content
community.brandrepublic.com - 40 hours ago
Pay wall day – Johnston Press begins charging for content
— community.brandrepublic.com — Today is a big day. Not only is it some huge online shopping day, but regional newspaper... firm Johnston Press has switched on its online pay wall and is now charging readers to access content on some of its websites. In all six weekly newspapers are in the Johnston Press pilot news of which ... (more) Pay wall day – Johnston Press begins charging for content
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TheLondonPaper to be relaunched (kind of, but not really)
community.brandrepublic.com - 42 hours ago
TheLondonPaper to be relaunched (kind of, but not really)
— community.brandrepublic.com — Hard to believe but someone has raised £5.5m and is to spend it on launching a free... newspaper in London. Better still this paper (to be published two days a week) looks like TheLondonPaper...well the logo at least as so far that's all we can see. It's being reported that a media pack for ... (more) TheLondonPaper to be relaunched (kind of, but not really)
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#Bbot The power of negative thinking - Malcolm White's presentation
community.brandrepublic.com - 4 days ago
#Bbot The power of negative thinking - Malcolm White's presentation
— community.brandrepublic.com — Krow founder Malcolm White's presentation at the Battle of Big Thinking won him The Big Thinking in... Planning session and was one of the most well received on the day. It was packed: not one big idea but 15. Here are the slides. Full coverage/links here.         ... (more) #Bbot The power of negative thinking - Malcolm White's ...
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#Bobt The business of happiness - Big Thinking Mobile
community.brandrepublic.com - 4 days ago
#Bobt The business of happiness - Big Thinking Mobile
— community.brandrepublic.com — Peter Sells (BBH) won the Big Thinking mobile session partly by not saying that 2010 is going... to be the year of the mobile (that was 2008) and by telling the audience that the mobile is in the business of making people happy. Sells, the creative/head of mobile development at BBH, scored more ... (more) #Bobt The business of happiness - Big Thinking Mobile
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#Bobt - Online advertising sucks aka Big Thinking in free spaces
community.brandrepublic.com - 4 days ago
#Bobt - Online advertising sucks aka Big Thinking in free spaces
— community.brandrepublic.com — First up Mike Barlett from Skype who wastes not time telling people online display advertisings sucks and... (search aside) is dead. He tempers this slightly by saying say Skype, which has no advertising on its site, spent a year looking into whether it should have advertising, but having ... (more) #Bobt - Online advertising sucks aka Big Thinking in ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking (6) - Social media: a fad or the wrong term?
— community.brandrepublic.com — Big Thinking in social media.   Good line-up here. A bit of a run off between Jeremy... Ettinghausen, digital publisher at Penguin, his anti social media line and VCCP's Amelia Torrode airing concerns about social media being like a snake oil fad.   Jeremy Ettinghausen raises the ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking (6) - Social media: a fad or the ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking (5) - Steve Wilson, ex Diageo head of innovation
— community.brandrepublic.com — Steve Wilson, ex Diageo head of innovation. Talking guerilla innovation. Talking vodka. Slide of lot of bottles....   Quotes McKinnsey coming to Diageo a few years back and saying it would cost five million pounds to launch a new brand and it might fail. Not anymore.   Talking Swedish ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking (5) - Steve Wilson, ex Diageo ...
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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking (4) Innovation - John V Willshire
— community.brandrepublic.com — John V Willshire PHD - He asks how do you socialise the mass production model? Great question.... Says social production is blue print for future.   Six examples: Nelson beer in Australia; product is only crowd sourced.   Moo.com – how it revolutionized business cards. Stop mass ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking (4) Innovation - John V Willshire

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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking (3) - Guy Murphy JWT
— community.brandrepublic.com — Guy Murphy JWT talking about a threat to brands.   Quoting research about how much time consumers... are willing to spend with brands. Chart with enthusiasm for brands. Indians, Thailand and South Korea love brands at one end and Netherlands, UK, US at the other end (hate brands – gag ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking (3) - Guy Murphy JWT
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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking (2)- Jonathan Mildenhall, VP global advertising, Coca Cola.
— community.brandrepublic.com — Jonathan Mildenhall, VP global advertising, Coca Cola. Says brand's content has to become more relevant and more... recent.   This means embracing user generated content and participation.   Five principals in global thinking (oh no chart break down…clock is ticking)   ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking (2)- Jonathan Mildenhall, VP ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 5 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking - Will Harris, Nokia
— community.brandrepublic.com — Will Harris from Nokia is up with his big idea. Nokia has lots of agencies. Problem is... no one can work out who is in charge anymore.   He says no one can work out how it works. Whatever Tess Alps (Thinkbox) says, we have relinquished control of the network. It isn't all about TV anymore. ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking - Will Harris, Nokia

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community.brandrepublic.com - 6 days ago
Regional publisher Johnston Press considers pay wall
— community.brandrepublic.com — The publisher of The Scotsman newspaper, Johnston Press, is reported to be considering erecting a pay wall.... According to a report on Holdthefrontpage Johnston Press, which also owns The Yorkshire Post and Lancashire Evening Post, is to introduce paid-for access to some of its local websites from ... (more) Regional publisher Johnston Press considers pay wall
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community.brandrepublic.com - 6 days ago
Two consider following News Corp – does Google have a problem?
— community.brandrepublic.com — Google insists it is not worried about News Corporation pulling its content, but as two more news... groups start talking about doing the same the move towards paid content or pay walls means for certain that others will follow suit. And that could change things Media News Group and A.H. Belo ... (more) Two consider following News Corp – does Google have a ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 7 days ago
Biz Stone says Twitter will not sell, but an IPO is an option
— community.brandrepublic.com — Twitter can suddenly talk about nothing else but revenues. It has to be a sure sign that... it is getting serious about how it might make money. Last week it was paid for corporate services and this week Biz Stone says an IPO could be an option. Co-founder Biz Stone said yesterday that "2010 ... (more) Biz Stone says Twitter will not sell, but an IPO is an ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 8 days ago
Winning Formulas To Maximise The Potential Of Twitter #BR140
— community.brandrepublic.com — Tomorrow is Brand Republic's first Twitter event and we will be tweeting throughout the afternnoon, but if... you're looking for people to follow these are the ones you should checkout. We've got Mark Palmer chairing @MaverickMark and he's been mining Twitter for examples good and bad for the ... (more) Winning Formulas To Maximise The Potential Of Twitter #BR140

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community.brandrepublic.com - 8 days ago
Murdoch serious about split from Google as talks held with Microsoft
— community.brandrepublic.com — Looks like Rupert Murdoch wasn't simple sabre ratting (as fun as that is) about splitting from Google.... It is being reported this morning that News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about a possible split with the search giant. According to a report in the Financial Times the plan would ... (more) Murdoch serious about split from Google as talks held ...

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community.brandrepublic.com - 11 days ago
Battle of Big Thinking
— community.brandrepublic.com — Great line-up for next week's fourth APG Battle of Big Thinking with more than 20 of the... biggest thinkers the business. One of the nice things about it is that it has a speedy format that progresses through out the day: three speakers per round, each given 15 minutes, with the audience voting at ... (more) Battle of Big Thinking
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community.brandrepublic.com - 11 days ago
Murdoch: online news to be smaller and less important
— community.brandrepublic.com — In case you were in some doubt regarding the future for online news James Murdoch is telling... it straight. He says that online news will in the future have a smaller audience, be less important (than broadcast) and come with a premium price tag.   James Murdoch, who is chief executive of ... (more) Murdoch: online news to be smaller and less important

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IPC Media to resturcture and cut jobs
community.brandrepublic.com - 12 days ago
IPC Media to resturcture and cut jobs
— community.brandrepublic.com — NME, Load, Nuts to Ideal Home and Marie Claire publisher IPC Media has said this afternoon that... it plans to restructure and cut jobs.   Evelyn Webster, CEO of IPC Media said the Time Warner-owned firm would reorganise around three audience groups of men, mass-market women and up-market ... (more) IPC Media to resturcture and cut jobs

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