For anyone still needing to see the relevance of using social media to share your messages and grow brand awareness, here is how one of our tweets on our client Portillion has pulled high in the Google search results. Brands have a real opportunity of benefiting from being relevant and frequent in a format more manageable than updating their corporate website and blogs with large amounts of content as often as they can in small chunks on platforms like Twitter.

We had a great session with the CIMA Publishing team at Elsevier. We explored some exciting digital marketing strategies and using social media in a range of student engagement activities.

The digital team did some great work reviewing and testing our new usability model on the new content and pages of our website.

We attended the excellent Like Minds social media conference in Exeter. There were some interesting talks by some of the leading global authors and consultants who are doing some great things within social communications. We heard some impressive strategies and case studies from the USA, Europe and Asia. Social media is helping charities, corporate business, SME’s and mums! We enjoyed the panels and Chris Brogans talk had us laughing hard.

Our ID badges at the event where our Twitter avatar’s and ID’s (Im glad I chose to use my name for my Twitter ID – I met Dark Vadar on the day!)

A very creative South Korean student has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award for his folding plug. Although its a great design and its scary to think the plug hadnt been redesigned since 1946 – I would have liked to have seen a designer tackle the issue of using less power on the MacBook. (pic below courtesy of Creative Review) For more coverage and praised entrants >Click here

Chris Rea’s ‘Josephine’ remixed back in the 80’s by some very cool French chaps perfect for spring time sunshine.

The Guardian have reviewed a number of new apps for the iPhone that help you get even greener. We know that being green is important, but not easy! There are some cools apps reviewed to help us make green decisions and track the impact; including ecosystems, carbon calculator tools, green living tip compendiums and more. I know that our friends at Meat Free Monday are consdering a recipe app to help us reduce meat consumption and reduce carbon gases in meat production.