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Year: 2011

  • Facebook Being Sued By JP McManus

    Irish media sources are reporting that the well known businessman a race horse owner, JP McManus, is taking the social media site to court. According to reports McManus’ legal representatives had contacted Facebook via normal channels to get false profiles removed. However the social media site has not removed them. More details here

  • Irish Social Media Awards

    Nominations are open for the 1st Irish Social Media Awards. There are also full details on how to submit a nomination for the awards and what information you need to supply. The awards ceremony will be held May 26th 2011 in Dublin’s Mansion House, which is a great venue.

  • Social Is All About Permission

    If you’re going to use “social” as part of your online strategy you need to remember a key concept. Permission. Earlier this morning I got an email “invite” from a contact to join a site that likes to see itself as being “social”. I ignored the invite but the wording of the email really touched…

  • LinkedIn’s April Fool’s

    Today being April 1st the web is awash with April Fool’s jokes and pranks. Some of them are pretty clever, while some of them are downright silly. One that caught my eye was LinkedIn’s If you go into the “people you may know” section you’re in for a surprise:  

  • Heinz Launch Commerce Via Facebook But Get Security Wrong

    Heinz have launched a special offer via their Facebook page that allows “fans” to buy a “limited edition” ketchup. Unfortunately it’s pretty clear that the people behind the integration don’t really understand security or privacy. In order to order the ketchup you need to fill out this form: Now why do they need ALL that…

  • Fine Gael Take Social Media To New Lows

    I’ve no idea who is “managing” Fine Gael’s web “stuff” during the 2011 Irish general election, but you would really have to ask yourself what they were thinking. Firstly we had the introduction of new word into the Irish political lexicon – twolicy. Yes – they managed to combine “twitter” and “policy” and came up…