If you work in PR and are interested in the latest thinking on media monitoring, PR planning, media analysis and social media measurement, these are the must read stories from the last week.
This week’s top PR and social media picks
- Mark Zuckerberg spent the Christmas holiday in Vietnam in a bid to get Facebook unblocked there.
- Mashable posted a beginner’s guide to the hot new social network, Pinterest.
- Phonedog.com sued former employee for ‘stealing’ Twitter followers.
- Google announced its annual Zeitgeist report, revealing the most popular search terms of 2011 by region and worldwide. Can’t see video below? Click here.
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- The New York Times mused on the literal history of word processing.
- Marketing guru Lee Odden predicted the future trends of online marketing & technology.
- Indiana University professor Colin Allen blogged about the advance of ‘moral machines’.
- ReadWriteWeb postted their Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011.
- A woman saw Jesus’s face in a sock. Yep you heard:
- Mashable asked how much time we really spend on Facebook. Video here.
- Web strategist Jeremiah Owyang hailed the end of the ‘Golden Age of Tech Blogging’.
- …but tech blogger Sarah Lacy couldn’t disagree more. More responses here, here and here.
- Social Media Examiner gave us five ways to keep our Facebook page secure.
- Quit procrastinating and check out The Next Web’s 10 best productivity apps of 2011.
- The top 6 trends in HTML5 in 2011, according to ReadWrite Web.
- Google+ passed 62 million users, adding 625,000 new users per day.
- PR Daily posted the 10 buzzwords that need to vanish in 2012.
Infographic of the week: Fathoming Amazon
