60 post(s) written by Paul Chaloner.

Before the 2012 Olympic games began on 27 July with a spectacular and slightly quirky British opening ceremony, Fresh Egg’s social media team tracked Team GB on Twitter and Klout in an attempt to see the affect of a medal on their online popularity…. Read more

The fifth ebook in our series The Science of Social Media is an introduction to LinkedIn. The sheer depth and size of LinkedIn means we’ve had to divide the latest in our series to two parts. The first of these covers the personal side of LinkedIn… Read more

Young people in general get a pretty hard time from their elders, me included. Many are chastised for being lazy and unmotivated, but if you ever need to be inspired by young people and what they can achieve through hard work, learning, passion and dedication,… Read more

We’re a social bunch here at Fresh Egg, and that even includes lunchtimes. What with a gym, a pool table, dartboard and video game consoles, you’d think we’d have a hundred things to do other than actually work through lunch. However, one of the… Read more

We’ve now published four free eBooks covering various angles of social media.  You can grab them all from the links below, totally free of charge.  All we ask is you follow our Twitter account to stay in touch.  In doing so, you’ll be the… Read more

My tattoo is vibrating; I need to take this… Finnish phone company, Nokia, filed a patent this week in the US for vibrating magnetic tattoos that will alert users that their phone is ringing. Here at Fresh Egg, a few staff members are trialling QR code… Read more

The second in our series of “The science of social media” deals with the often confusing area of button placement. Today it is common place to find social media buttons adorning websites we visit, but with the plethora of social networks now… Read more

This is the first in a series of free eBooks written by the social media team at Fresh Egg around the science of social media. in the coming months, we will tackle all manner of subjects including Twitter tools, social media button placement and more…. Read more

According to statistical monitoring site, TwoPCharts, at 18:06 local time tonight, Twitter passed the 500 million registered users barrier, cementing its current position as the second largest social media network in the world. Interestingly, despite… Read more