RAAK is a social & digital media plug-in. We put you in touch with people, be it your customers, your suppliers, or employees.
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Diversity is at the heart of the RAAKonteur, so this week we cover – amongst others – major changes in online education, 3D printing in fashion and free speech.
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In this day and age, with Robot Journalism taking off in a big way, don't you feel happy with the fact that your weekly RAAKonteur is still lovingly assembled by real humans? Or is it? How can you be sure?
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Fierce news this week. The RAAKonteur tackles the Ebook Wars, the War on Censorship and the Next Big Thing.
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One of our favourite tools over the last few months has been IFTTT, and this week Social Media Examiner posted this handy list of brilliant things you can do with it. Go on – try it. Just read the rest of the RAAKonteur first!
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Big news this week is that the project we did with Guided Collective won a Guardian award for Digital Campaign of 2011. For the other news, there’s the newsletter.
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Brian Solis says Klout and Peerindex measures Social Capital and not Influence. We examine why he is right and wrong.
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NAME-DROP! – This week we RAAKonteurs were privileged to be given a tour of 10 Downing street. Guess what? They're using Pinterest!
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As always, the RAAKonteur covers the very best of social media news, from Pinterest to Twitter, from Kony2012 to feminism.
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Over the past few weeks, we've had quite a lot to say about Pinterest. Well, this week there's no news on Pinterest. But there is a lot on the new Facebook changes.
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The term content marketing has cropped up ever more frequently this last year. But what exactly is it, and how is it different from social media? Is the term of any use at all?
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All organisations can now become media entities. But content marketing requires a shift in company culture, resources, budgets, partners and strategy.
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Our newsletter subscriber list is growing tremendously. We noticed about half our sign-ups are from peeps in other agencies. We hope you bear us in mind when you need a hand.
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We answer two questions: Exactly when did twitter cross the 500 million user mark, and who exactly is user number 500 million?
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Focus groups are good to get feedback on things your sample group can clearly imagine. But what about a creative campaign, a start up idea like Twitter, or a revolution?
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In January, Twopcharts estimated that Twitter would break through the 500 million user mark some time on the 25th of February. But now it looks like it will happen 3 days sooner, this Wednesday the 22nd.
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This week the big beasts of social media are taking a back seat. Pinterest is all over the news, but its not the only important niche network out there.
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Cheating: It's incredible that a company thought they could get away with it. After uploading all their users' address books, Path apologized. But this week they weren’t the only ones under scrutiny.
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This week’s newsletter deals with everything but the Facebook IPO: Pinterest, the audience with an audience & much more.
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We were more than a little taken aback by Twitter's announcement late last week: they now have the ability to block tweets on a per country basis. Read why we think this will impact users in democracies first.
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Youtube released a set of extremely impressive stats this week. Not only does it serve a staggering 4 billion videos per day, 60 hours of new content is uploaded every minute. Let’s have a look at where this leaves the MPAA.
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