BigShinyThing

Tuesday 1 November 2005

It seems that marketers just can’t resist trying to get in with the blogging community.

Biting at the heels of the Cillit Bang scandal… comes this story about Burger King trying to infiltrate the blogosphere. Don’t marketers get that the whole thing about blogging is People Talk but these ain’t nice, pliant consumers – they’re professional gossipers.

If you haven’t come across the Cillit Bang story it’s worth reading the whole sorry tale – just enter “cillit bang” +blog into Google – around about the first result will be blogger Tom Coates’ expose.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: blogging, Burger King, Cillit Bang, marketing mistakes
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LIFESTREAM | TWITTER / Sep 9^th 2010

Sep 8^th 2010

DB: “Bought a copy to send to my folks !”

DB: “Street Knowledge. Buy a copy.

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Sep 7^th 2010

DB: “RT @switchflicker: David Hoyle and Bourgeois and Maurice early bird tickets £6/4 on sale @contactmcr

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AF: “@curlywurlyfi yes flying spine was at haunch of venison. very tempted by bunch of starling heads multiple too”

AF: “@maxreyner oh yes. loved it - love her work.”

DB: “@manchipp given yr presence/persona here I wouldn't discount the many virtues of blog platform... Just make the content and prez engaging”

DB: “@manchipp 'blog' is the media not msg -- no reason it has to be boring! blog == commitment to timely updates + commit 2 engage w audience..”

DB: “@curlywurlyfi erm 2580 actually...”

DB: “@curlywurlyfi have u tried shazam? Just hold yr phone to speaker and dial 2480”

DB: “@manchipp if u need a hand gimme a shout...”

AF: “tagging a lovely Polly Morgan sculpture 'spine' 'dead' and 'balloons'

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AF: “@timhayward one for Tims ...

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DB: “@manchipp it's a good platform. Steep learning curve once u start hacking anything other than the stylesheets tho”

AF: “@NRE_EastCoast who should I contact please re. compensation/refund for service disruption? thnx”

Sep 6^th 2010

DB: “@manchipp ps the actual slideshows are on black (with 1 pixel white border...)”

DB: “@manchipp yeah i made in wp. many of my pix have black background so opted to white background for framing... maybe should just do 18% grey?”

DB: “@manchipp WEBSITE? How 20th century! Have you briefed the scriptorium on new layout for your palimpsests?”

DB: “@manchipp WEBSITE? How 20th century! Have you briefed the scriptorium on new layout for your palimpsest?”

DB: “Site revamp. Work-in-progress: bug reports/suggestions appreciated.

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Sep 3^rd 2010

AF: “@mokbeehive at the risk of sounding like an ad, using Skype has saved us a fortune in conference-call related costs xxx”

DB: “The Orb and David Gilmour have released a collaboration? Cannot WAIT to get my time machine fixed and return to C21...”

AF: “plotting trip to beloveds in Amsterdam”

Sep 2^nd 2010

DB: “Bo Ningen brilliant at The Macbeth tonight. Can't wait to see them at #offsetfestival. Photos to follow tomorrow...”

AF: “Bo Ningen at the Macbeth and I am wearing Jigsaw ha”

AF: “Paul Boudens at The Wapping Project

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DB: “At the Paul Boudens PV at Wapping. Good stuff, well selected, beautifully presented...#wappingproject”

AF: “fan girl day”

AF: “@timhayward what about the cat? and what child? glad to see that we are preoccupying your subconscious though xxx”

DB: “Ping reminds me, both Look & Feel and function, of the terrible software Sony used to ship in the last days of minidisk (& prob still does)”

AF: “@timhayward looks familiar

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