February 2010

Social Network Usage by Age

via royal.pingdom.com

No posts for ages, then two in a day. Like buses. This was too good not to capture in some form.

Great info, and lovely presentation fodder from Pingdom. Hat tip to @prgeek for the heads-up.

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Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages

via webdigi.co.uk

Brilliant. A very handy 'how to' on setting up Google Analytics for a Facebook Fan page. Bit fiddly, but better to have all those metrics in one place.

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Chatting with Murray Newlands

via murraynewlands.com

A quick video interview with yours truly by the ever-charming inbound marketing sage, Murray Newlands.

This took place on the Friday of Social Media Week, London i.e. the last day. After 28 events.

I don't remember most of that day, let alone this interview, so it's nice to have some kind of record.

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OK, so they mis-spelt my name, but always nice to be asked to come on the tellybox and have a chat. This time an interview with Andrea Catherwood about Facebook and EU Information Society and Media Chief, Vivane Redding who fired a warning shot across the social networking giant's boughs over privacy.

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Fried Chicken Wars in Shepherds Bush

For fans of fried chicken, Shepherds Bush (London, W12) is strangely blessed. By my reckoning, there are 12 KFC-alikes along the one mile stretch of the Uxbridge Road from Shepherds Bush Central Line station.

Last week the harmonious relations between the purveyors of the deep fried, err, foods, was shattered when interloper, Sammy's Halal Chicken, opened up next to long-term incumbent, Chicken Cottage.

As you can see (apologies for poor Photoshop skills), the staff at Chicken Cottage were not amused:

Since then, there's been arm-folded stare offs between the polyester-uniformed troops of Sammy's and Chicken Cottage. If this isn't fodder for a new sitcom, well, I'm not a TV script writer, which I'm not.

The transfat battle continues...keep your eyes and arteries peeled for updates.

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Hunting for the Perfect Free Social Media Icon Set

This evening's challenge: find a set of free icons which will link to core social media sites. As a minimum, the set needs to include icons for

and it'd be nice to have an icon or LinkedIn, too. Fortunately, the Interweb is littered with free icon sets, there, waiting to be downloaded. Hundreds, thousands of them.

So for your delectation, a (highly subjective) round-up of the best ones...

Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icons for Bloggers
from Spoon Graphics