Archive for August, 2011

You down with NFC?

Yeah you know me! If you’ve been following @1000heads on Twitter, you might know that we’ve been tinkering around with NFC of late, and for good reason. Last week, as part of our activity for Nokia’s Symbian Belle launch, we arranged a special ‘48hrs in Hong Kong‘ for a very lucky group of six select [...]


James Whatley, August 31st, 2011
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3CT #2

It’s time for episode two of ‘Three Cool Things’, for a bit of background on what this post is all about, please jump back and check out episode one. In the meantime, let’s crack on. Last Friday’s #3CT kicked off with Michael Quinn talking about the Volkswagen Bluemotion Roulette activity in Norway earlier this year. [...]


James Whatley, August 30th, 2011
Posted in #3CT, Creative
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The purpose of social tools…

…is not to talk about social tools. Or social business. Or social theories, whitepapers, stats or case studies. It is to get stuff done. The stuff that your business is made of; be that selling shoes or healthcare provision or delivering fish. We don’t call our colleagues on the telephone to discuss how awesome it [...]


Molly Flatt, August 25th, 2011
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The IAB: Rules Rules Rules

As part of our active membership of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Social Media Council, it’s our duty to discuss, debate and disclose details and information about the issues facing the industry today. Effective immediately, we’ll be contributing a monthly column to the IAB UK Social blog pages and that kicks off today with this [...]


James Whatley, August 25th, 2011
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Ticketmaster: Social Ticketing

This morning, Mashable is reporting the launch of Ticketmaster‘s latest layer of Facebook integration, a move that allows users to see exactly where their Facebook friends will be sitting at various different events and gigs across the globe. Live on over 9000 events across the Ticketmaster website, the new interactive map enables seat tagging, which [...]


James Whatley, August 24th, 2011
Posted in Events, Sport, Things we like, travel & tourism
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3CT #1

aka ‘Three Cool Things’ We’ve been running the above event at the ‘heads now for the best part of 18 months. If you follow @1000heads on Twitter, you may have even spotted us mentioning it in the past. Up until this point however, unless you’ve been in or around our office at 5pm on a [...]


James Whatley, August 23rd, 2011
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Social business is not social media business

Today I’d like to share a really useful social business deck created by Michael Brito for Edelman Digital, promoting his new book ‘Smart Business, Social Business’. Then I’d like to make some suggestions about how we can broaden that concept of social business to become something a little more, well, physical. Brito’s slides provide an [...]


Molly Flatt, August 19th, 2011
Posted in Offline/Online, social business
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It’s a sign!

Or Our Top Five List of Awesome ‘Retail’ Posters’

Distrupt! Be out of the ordinary! Be human! Surprise! Delight! Think about the offline!


James Whatley, August 17th, 2011
Posted in 1000thoughts, Creative, retail
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Social business: mobile doesn’t always mean virtual

Social contact manager Gist has put together this infographic on the rise of the mobile worker and, as you can see, productivity is no longer synonymous with desk-bound nine-to-five. A mobile business culture is going to be very important to the next generation of talent.


Molly Flatt, August 12th, 2011
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A quiet time

As a global word of mouth creative agency we have offices all over the world, aiding and assisting clients everywhere. Our roots, believe it or not, are in rural Oxford but for the past two years, our global headquarters (and natural home) has been right here in London. We work here, we live here, we [...]


James Whatley, August 9th, 2011
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