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HMV: Social Media #FAIL.

Long-term music retailer HMV found its Twitter account ‘hijacked’, revealing to the world that 60 staff were being made redundant in a ‘#massexecution”. HMV were embroiled in a social media fiasco when tweets were posted to its then, 65,000 strong followers, informing them of the

Super Bowl 2013: The Top 3 Ads

Every year, the Super Bowl proves yet again why it is one of the world’s biggest spectacles. Even some English people pretend to be into the sport for a single night, much to the annoyance of all of the English people who really like it. As

Facebook Introduces ‘Graph Search’

  Last week Facebook unveiled a new feature called ‘Graph Search’ to help boost users’ search experience on the Social Network… Facebook Graph Search is a new facility to help users search connections and more on Facebook. Although Mark Zuckerberg has denied this being a

10 iPhone Apps Every Entrepreneur Must Have

  For all budding entrepreneurs, during the start-up stages of a new business staying focussed and efficient is integral to success. With a considerable amount of work to do on-the-go, it will come as no surprise that a certain amount will have to be carried out on

Social Media Books For Business Owners

At Giraffe we are compulsive readers; we’re addicted to reading books of all topics. But seeing as this is a blog about social media, we figured it’d be silly to tell you our favourite book about emotional intelligence or deciphering dreams – so here are

What is Klout and is it really useful?

    What is Klout? Klout is a website that supposedly measures the influence you have on social media. It was launched in September 2009, and modestly refers to itself as ‘the standard for influence’. It has been met with very mixed opinions. A lot of