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    Top UK Online Marketing Bloggers

    People often ask me to recommend great digital marketing blogs they should read. I have my own favourites, hand-picked over the years according to the usefulness of the content they share. For every blog I keep following there are usually two or three I ditch because they fail to blog regularly or to a consistently…

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    UK population mapped: It’s true, we Brits retire to the coast

    Data, data everywhere, but not a drop to drink… Like most marketers, I love a good dataset. And the latest batch from the Office of National Statistics shows how the UK population has changed in recent years. The DataBlog team at The Guardian have mapped some of the key stats, including this interesting view showing…

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    Interactive mapping: ethnic breakdown of England and Wales

    We’re a very fortunate generation, in many ways. And one of life’s riches that we tend to overlook is the remarkable access we get to information and data about things our grandparents could never have dreamed of knowing. Take, for example, this interactive map by UK newspaper, The Guardian, which uses data from the Office…

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    What sort of person uses social networking sites in the UK?

    I’ve been crunching data to get a picture of what sort of people visit the leading social networking sites. Here are three charts I created to show the distribution of age, education and income of users of the UK’s top 18 social networking sites in March 2011: (click any chart to enlarge) I last ran…

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    List: Where’s Microsoft UK on Twitter?

    This is a bit off my normal topic, but I’m often asked for this. Here’s a list of Microsoft UK’s major accounts on Twitter. Click any link to find out more: TechNet: http://twitter.com/AskTechNetUK Internet Explorer: http://twitter.com/IE_UK Microsoft Education: http://twitter.com/Microsoft_Ed_UK Microsoft Business: http://twitter.com/MicrosoftBizUK Microsoft Small Business: http://twitter.com/MicrosoftSB Microsoft Wave: http://twitter.com/MicrosoftWave Microsoft Hosting: http://twitter.com/MSHosting Microsoft Partners: http://twitter.com/mspartnersuk…

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    UK, GB, England… Confused? Watch this!

    This has very little to do with digital marketing, other than being a lovely online viral video, but for anyone whose life and work has anything to do with the UK, watching this should be compulsory: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10&w=448&h=252&hd=1] The difference between UK, GB and England