{"id":64104,"date":"2011-08-05T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uk.cision.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:32:13","slug":"weekly-comms-news-roundup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/weekly-comms-news-roundup-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly comms news roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My weekly pick of comms news curated from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/CisionUK\" target=\"_self\">@CisionUK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.freedmaninternational.com\/4-international-marketing-tips-that-worked-for-asos\/7810\/\" target=\"_blank\">4 international marketing tips that worked for Asos<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Freedman_\">@Freedman_<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Freedman_\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.freedmaninternational.com\" target=\"_blank\">freedman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmaninternational.com\/implementation\/Digital.aspx\">international retail marketing<\/a> would no doubt be very happy to emulate the success of online fashion  retailer Asos.com, given that it is now valued at a higher multiple than  Amazon. And there are other reasons to admire the e-tailing  phenomenon\u2019s success too, not least the following:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/aug\/03\/government-scraps-filesharing-sites-block\" target=\"_blank\">Government scraps plan to block illegal filesharing websites<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/marksweney\">@marksweney<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Business secretary Vince Cable says site blocking is too cumbersome and  unworkable, and work is being done on other ways to tackle online  copyright infringement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wallblog.co.uk\/2011\/08\/03\/do-you-have-to-be-yourself-campaign-aims-to-persuade-facebook-and-google-to-allow-pseudonyms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do you have to be yourself? Campaign aims to persuade Facebook and Google+ to allow pseudonyms<\/a> by Jennifer Whitehead via <a href=\"http:\/\/wallblog.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">THE Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you feel your rights are infringed by not being able to sign up to Facebook or Google+ using a pseudonym?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communicatemagazine.co.uk\/news\/3051-journalists-and-social-media-whos-using-what-how\" target=\"_blank\">Journalists and social media: Who&#8217;s using what how?<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/communicatemagazine.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Communicate Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost all UK journalists are now regularly using social media \u2013 but its  popularity hasn\u2019t quelled fears over its impact on the quality of  journalism&#8221; &#8211; a response to our very own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.cision.com\/en-gb\/Resources\/Public-relations-white-papers\/2011-social-journalism-study\/\" target=\"_self\">Social Journalism Study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nmk.co.uk\/articles\/1720\" target=\"_blank\">Can business-to-business communications work on Facebook?<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CMRLee\">@CMRLee<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/nmk.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">New Media Knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a user base approaching 670 million, Facebook has been successfully  exploited by some organisations looking to target consumers. But is  Facebook any use as a platform for businesses wanting to attract other  business customers?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekly pick of comms news curated from @CisionUK. 4 international marketing tips that worked for Asos by @Freedman_ via freedman &#8220;Those in international retail marketing would no doubt be very happy to emulate the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[97,878,2881,2923,3237,3241,3242,3250,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120981,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64104\/revisions\/120981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}