Last Friday, comedian Michael Legge proved just how powerful social media can be when he announced the death of Gregg Jevin. Michael announced to his 10,000 followers on Twitter that ‘Gregg Jevin, a man I just made up, has died’. His followers then retweeted this and soon #RIPGreggJevin was trending. The (completely made-up) death of (the [...]
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Twitter, Facebook and YouTube create an easy platform to communicate and it has become increasingly important for a business to be able to answer questions from their customers via these websites. They have recently been joined by a new platform, Google+. Google+ is a new social networking site which provides marketing tools for businesses and [...]
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Last night was the first ever Mashable meetup in Leeds; the event took place in the upstairs section of the swanky Living Room on Greek Street. The format of the evening gave people the chance to rant, rave or both for 60 seconds on something to do with social media in Leeds and then the [...]
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If you’ve only recently started reading the Wolfstar blog you might have missed some of our best posts from 2009 (by traffic and comments) so in reverse order here they are: 10. Three Wolfstar people make Twitter list of 100 PR people worth following Sam posts about the Twitter list of 100 PR people worth [...]
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In order to keep up to date with the fast changing social media space, I spend a fair amount of time here at Wolfstar researching social media best practice and exciting new developments in this space. This helps the team to inform the strategy and tactics that we suggest for clients. If you’ve read my [...]
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You can always rely on the national media to spin positive stories into negative ones and get the facts wrong. The latest is the Telegraph getting worked up about ‘Health officials to spend £30 million on Twitter and Facebook marketing campaign.’ The Telegraph has wheeled out the usual suspects to condemn the NHS, so we [...]
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Wolfstar MD Stuart Bruce will be one of the speakers at this year’s Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media conference that will take place at The Barbican Centre, London, in April. Other speakers include: Stephen Davies; Graham Goodkind of Frank PR; Edelman’s Marshall Manson; Chief Inspector Mark Payne, head of press and public relation at [...]
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Thanks to Media Culpa, who got it from Rob Cottingham.
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