The Brinkwire Blog

The YouTube Ad of the Year is a brand new award launched this year by the Campaign Media Awards. The award aims to find the ad which demonstrates the most creative and engaging content over the past 18-months. A panel of marketing experts and practitioners chose the short-list of 28 entries. The overall winner will [...]

The fine folks at Realwire (formally WebIT PR) have started a brave campaign called The Inconvenient PR Truth. I say “brave” because it clearly runs along in the wake of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth but the very fact no one (that I’ve noticed) thinks this is out of line is a very good indicator [...]

If you take money or product from an advertiser in exchange for putting a message out via your Facebook status then you’re breaking the new Terms and Conditions. In Facebook speak you’re breaking their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The Statement of Rights and Responsibilities replaced Facebook’s more traditional Terms of Use in the beginning [...]

Adam Sherk works in the industry. He helps publishers and other content providers with SEO and social media. As a result he’s pretty interested in Digg and he’s done some clever research. Adam used di66.net’s list of top sources in Digg for the last 30 days http://di66.net/top-sites-30d-by-posts.html and fished out the news sites. Next he [...]

Intense Debate is the Automattic www.automattic.com owned competitor to Disqus. The idea is a good one; rather than locking comments into a single blog and a single thread why not let the comments be part of a comment community and enhance the comment interface while you’re at it? The best way to test this out [...]

Over at TheWayoftheWeb Dan Thornton has been kind enough to share the presentation he gave to the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. We was invited to talk about building online communities and he took a useful birds eye view to this. His presentation is available via Slideshare but here are a few of [...]