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How do things go viral?
For the latest in our series of blog posts, PushON team members Rebecca Rae, Tom Procter and Michael Thornton have put together an infographic looking at the factors which can help something go viral… Click to enlarge…
Forced meme is forced by Daniel Carrol
We’ve now confirmed The Soup Kitchen as the venue for our Viral Marketing debate on Monday and have two new speakers confirmed. Grab tickets here. Now, for the second instalment of our guest blog series on viral marketing. This post is from self confessed Bronie, Dan. He doesn’t think viral marketing exists. Do you agree with him? Everything [...]
What is Viral Marketing? Entertain, Personalise and use Video – By Dr Aleksej Heinze
Do you remember the viral game “Curiose” developed for the University of Salford back in 2007? In three months this game attracted over half a million viewers, half of whom then visited the University of Salford’s website… As part of the Search and Social Media Marketing course at Salford Business School, we often debate our [...]
The Feed 3: Digital Education – As It Happened
On Monday October 10th, the great and the good of the Manchester digital world braved the rain to talk digital education upstairs at Revolution on Oxford Road. On the panel was Matt Hackett from Orchard recruitment, David Edmundson-Bird from Manchester Metropolitan University and Tony Foggett from Code Computerlove, leading the debate on whether universities are [...]
THE FEED: Viral – The Cure for Common Marketing?
14th November 18:30 The Soup Kitchen (Downstairs) Manchester Naturally occurring videos of kittens can spread like wildfire. Many turning into ‘internet memes’ that people will recreate and spread. Some memes will go down in history such as ‘lol cats’ and ‘Rickrolling’. With memes and viral, the public do the hard work so you don’t have [...]
The Moon on a Stick by Simon Knight
We’ve been hearing from all sectors of the industry for our digital education guest blog series in preparation for the live debate. The event is this evening in Manchester and there are still tickets available; you can get one here. It’s a great chance to catchup with other members of the industry and we have over [...]
What is Education for Manchester SEOs & Social Media Marketeers? by Aleksej Heinze
Thanks to Rebecca, David, Christina and Ian – this seems like a new discussion about the “poor” state of our digital education – or is it? Our Search & Social Media Marketing evening course takes 10 evenings face-to-face contact time with academics, Manchester SEO community speakers and extensive elements of online learning using a LinkedIn [...]
“It’s time for the digital educators to be educated” by Christina McDermott
Following on from RebeccaWho’s “What Digital Education?” ; David Edmundson-Bird’s “Digital Education: What’s it for?” and Ian Wareings “Call of Duty: Modernising Education“, we have the 4th instalment in our Digital Education guest blog series in preparation for our live digital education debate on the 10th October: Digital Education: The Dream. This blog is from Christina McDermott, [...]
Call of Duty: Modernising Education by Ian Wareing
The third instalment of our Digital Education guest posts comes from a one time photography student, Ian Wareing looking at the use of gamification in learning. This follows on from RebeccaWho’s “What Digital Education” and David Edmundson-Bird’s “Digital Education: What’s it for?” in the run up to our live digital education debate on the 10th October: “Digital [...]
Digital Education – what’s it for? by David Edmundson-Bird
As a part of our Digital Education debate, we’re getting people to write guest blog posts about the subject. Following on from Rebecca Who’s post, “What Digital Education?”, David Edmundson-Bird from MMU asks what digital education is for? “The Oxford English Dictionary (a weighty tome produced by an institution dedicated to education) describes it [...]
