#OrangeDigitalDozen 24 April 2014

A weekly digest of 12 unmissable articles we’ve found online, shared around the office or bumped into elsewhere.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft join forces to prevent another Heartbleed
Half of UK businesses blind to new EU data protection laws
Facebook launches FB Newswire to try to be a journalist’s best friend
Phoning it in: how the smartphone is disrupting Hollywood
Content Marketing: A business blogging guide
Best Practices: How to annoy on social media
How brands can win at the sharing economy
Apps, mobile sites or responsive design? What’s right for your institution?
36% of top UK advertisers don’t have a mobile site: report
Cloud spending by companies outpaces predictions
Apple iPad sales slump: is the tablet dying?
Craig Floate Chef: Restaurant social media case study

This week’s #DigitalDazzler

SECURITY Facebook, Google, Microsoft join forces to prevent another Heartbleed (Mashable)
“More than a dozen tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM, have joined forces to try to prevent another Heartbleed-like security breach… Each of the tech companies has agreed to commit $100,000 per year for the next three years for the initiative. That brings the total to over $4 million (at the time of this writing).”

And the rest…

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DATA Half of UK businesses blind to new EU data protection laws (TechRadar)

SOCIAL Facebook launches FB Newswire to try to be a journalist’s best friend (Techcrunch)

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MOBILE Phoning it in: how the smartphone is disrupting Hollywood (TechRadar)

CONTENT Content Marketing: A business blogging guide (Fusion Marketing Experience)

SOCIAL Best Practices: How to annoy on social media (LinkedIn)

/Opinion

BRAND How brands can win at the sharing economy (FastCocreate)

TECH Apps, mobile sites or responsive design? What’s right for your institution? (The Financial Brand)

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MOBILE 36% of top UK advertisers don’t have a mobile site: report (Econsultancy)

CLOUD Cloud spending by companies outpaces predictions (Bloomberg)

DEVICES Apple iPad sales slump: is the tablet dying? (HuffPo Tech)

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SOCIAL Craig Floate Chef: Restaurant social media case study (Leadamo Academy)

What is #DigitalDozen?

This is Orange Digital’s digest of 12 unmissable articles we’ve found online, shared around the office or bumped into elsewhere. We hope you’ll find it useful.

Follow @OrangeDigitalUK on Twitter, ‘like’ facebook.com/OrangeDigitalUK and find us on LinkedIn for more of this sort of thing, and feel free to submit anything you find interesting via your medium of choice.

#OrangeDigitalDozen 4 April 2014

Welcome to #OrangeDigitalDozen – a weekly digest of 12 unmissable articles we’ve found online, shared around the office or bumped into elsewhere.

This week’s #DigitalDazzler
CONTENT ITV commercial boss warns brands that 90% of content is ‘crap’ (The Guardian)
“[Simon] Daglish said: “One needs to be careful in this world of anybody-can-produce content – everybody’s got a video camera, a mini studio, and everybody thinks they can produce content. Actually the game is producing great content and that is fabulously difficult, really difficult. For a brand just to leap in and go, ‘Here, I can do content now, here it is, isn’t it great?’ No, actually. You have to be really, really good at it. There’s a warning sign to numerous brands out there. For all the great successes we could name – Nike, Red Bull, a bit of Guinness – there are millions of examples of appallingly produced content by people who think they can do it. Be careful.””

And the rest…

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TECH Microsoft: Yes, we’re bringing back the Start menu (Mashable)

MOBILE Google shows a glimpse of how its modular phone moonshot is progressing (Techcrunch)

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RESPONSIVE Responsive websites vs native apps (LinkedIn)

CONTENT 25 tools to boost your content strategy (Business2Community)

SOCIAL Are you making these 5 Twitter mistakes? (Twittercounter)

B2B Eight secrets of success with LinkedIn PPC ads (MarketingProfs)

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SOCIAL Social media is too important to be confined to a single department (Guardian Media Network)

IoT Licencing and entitlement management key to monetising IoT (Information Age)

DATA Why CIOs should look outside for data expertise (CIO.com)

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MOBILE B2Bs face a mobile-first future (eMarketer)

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BRAND April Fools: Apple acquisition, steak shampoo, tablet for couples, pedometer pants and more… (The Drum)

What is #DigitalDozen?
This is Orange Digital’s digest of 12 unmissable articles we’ve found online, shared around the office or bumped into elsewhere.We hope you’ll find it useful.

Follow @OrangeDigitalUK on Twitter, ‘like’ facebook.com/OrangeDigitalUK and find us on LinkedIn for more of this sort of thing, and feel free to submit anything you find interesting via your medium of choice.