Here at GWS, we’re always on the look-out for an interesting story – whether it’s a news event, an exciting new design release or a useful tip from an expert in social networking.
Our weekly round-ups have featured top news from the worlds of social media, current affairs and art and design, and as 2010 draws to a close we’ve been reflecting on our favourite stories of the year. Here are our highlights:
Social media
- Twitter news has been a regular feature of our weekly round-ups – one of our favourite stories was a New York Times article on the psychology of Twitter.
- We also found these tips useful – situations when you shouldn’t Tweet, and the danger of over-responding on Twitter.
- Social media scientist Dan Zarrella has provided us with some great marketing advice – a highlight was his post on using novelty to create contagious marketing strategies.
- We loved this Guardian article by 23 year old Tom Meltzer on the curse of growing up in the social networking generation.
- The insights of Drew Hawkins have been a regular feature of our weekly round-ups - we loved this piece showing that PR doesn’t have to choose between traditional and digital.
- One of our favourite resources for using social media channels was Adam Vincenzini’s YouTube Treasure Chest for Marketers.
World news
- We first blogged about Wikileaks back in August – while we’ve enjoyed the Guardian’s coverage of the saga, this alternative presentation of events from Rap News has been our highlight so far.
- The impact of Google Instant has been hotly debated since its launch in September – we enjoyed this article by @TechCrunch which showed that finding God is not as easy as it used to be...
- The Social Network has been one of 2010’s most successful releases – we enjoyed this review by a Harvard Professor. We also liked what Zadie Smith had to say about the phenomenon that is Facebook.
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| The Social Network (via The Guardian) |
Art & design
- Hidden faces of the UK coastline - possibly the coolest use of Google we’ve come across.
- Being Bristollians, we’ve had a lot to say about Banksy – a highlight for us was this opening to The Simpsons directed by the elusive artist himself.
- @mashable have featured regularly in our weekly round-ups – we loved this article about the website designs that blew their minds...
- One of our 2010 design favourites was It’s Our Water – a site seeking to raise awareness about the ‘(ab)use’ of Lake Michigan. Click here for the blog.
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| An image from Call to Action, the It's our Water blog |
- Finally, we had a lot of fun with this map showing where people are tweeting from – interactive, up-to-date and very nice to look at!
So that’s all for 2010 – watch this space for the first round-up of 2011! From all of us here at GWS, have a very happy new year!
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