Archive for October, 2011

Double Winner!

Last week, a mere 24hrs after we picked up a SoMeComms award for ‘Best Viral Campaign: Nokia / Tron: Legacy’, we did ‘the double’ at the Digital Impact Awards! Picking up a silver award in the ‘Best use of existing social media platforms/sites’ category for ‘Nokia / Tron: Legacy’ as well as a Digital Impact [...]


James Whatley, October 24th, 2011
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a big thank you

1000heads wins! Best Viral Campaign for Nokia / Tron: Legacy at the Social Media Communications Awards! Just over a year ago, the 1000heads Nokia account team were gearing up for one of the biggest/most intense workloads of our collective history as we headed towards the 24hr Nokia / Tron: Legacy takeover. Here, in October 2011, [...]


James Whatley, October 20th, 2011
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Please share, but only what we tell you to

We have an ‘open door’ blogging policy for all staff here at 1000heads and today’s post is from Senior Strategy Executive, Ben Fox, he’s a talented chap and had this to say about a recent not-exactly-social retail experience – JW Like many twenty-something males in the UK, I’ve always looked to Topman for fashion inspiration. [...]


Ben Fox, October 17th, 2011
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Guidance on U-16s peer to peer marketing heads to Downing Street

Here at 1000heads we’re proud for our ethics. We don’t contact anyone under 16 to take part in our campaigns (and if we do it by mistake, as is all too easy online, we apologise sincerely and back out). We only invite people 18 and over to take part in our events. We believe children [...]


Molly Flatt, October 10th, 2011
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Like Minds 2011

1000heads has been involved with the phenomenon that is Like Minds for two years now, and anyone who has attended one of their conferences, summits, immersive workshops or networking events will understand why. Like Minds isn’t your average self-congratulatory, all-talk-no-action social media echo chamber. The organisation, led by the charismatic, down to earth double-act Drew Ellis [...]


Molly Flatt, October 5th, 2011
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Escaping the yoke of the Facebook “Like”

Yesterday, Facebook announced some fairly major changes to its Pages Insights product. The ‘People Talking About’ feature is a major step forward and attempts to value brand engagement in a more meaningful way than a mere ‘Like this’. Facebook’s defining this new feature as stories people create about brand pages and could take the form [...]


Mike Davison, October 4th, 2011
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