Best of blogs: what we read last week - Oct 17th
Posted by Dave Molloy on October 17, 2011 in Advertising, Graphic Design, Public Relations, Social Media, Web technologies with 0 CommentsHere's some of the best of last week's reading in advertising, PR, social media and digital life from our staff.
ADVERTISING
Why top ad men are walking away from the new challenges in the business.
Of all the wonderful tributes to Steve Jobs, this infographic was one of our favourites.
We Are Social thought up a fantastic campaign: personal-message soup cans for Heinz built with a really great Facebook app.
The power of negative messages in advertising and design!
SOCIAL MEDIA
Recruiters claim to prefer Facebook to LinkedIn – bad news for the latter!
Facebook's new Timeline profiles are set to be rolled out soon - here are some beautiful examples.
Ad Age asks if there’s any point to social media for brands. Can advertising work?
The Media Bistro agency has put together a by-the-numbers look at the "big 4" of social media.
Facebook ads are getting more expensive, it seems – no sign of a slowdown.
PR
There's no such thing as bad publicity for Ben & Jerry's creatively-named Schweddy Balls.
Blackberry’s utter lack of crisis management last week has done a lot of damage to the brand.
WEB
Remember real-time social spaces from the 90's and early 2000's? They’re back.
Farmville is serious business, judging by social gaming co Zynga’s expansion and swanky new offices.
DIGITAL/TECH
On of the first real-life Siri demos on the iPhone 4s blew us away.
The Dutch Senate goes digital, with the iPad replacing many paper documents.
Adobe have invented magic, again, with a new photoshop tool which removes motion blur from photographs in post-processing. It’s really something.
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