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Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and web apps

Paratus — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:18:58 +0000

Here’s comes this week’s edition of Platform Five – our regular look at the new tools and web apps that are getting people talking. Let’s jump straight in! 1. If you’re a fan of Pinterest, you’ll probably love TheFancy.com too – Fancy is part store, blog and wishlist which gives you the ability to browse [...]

Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and platforms

Paratus — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:16:49 +0000

Welcome to the Social Media Week edition of Platform Five – our regular round-up of the latest tools and apps that are generating some buzz online. Let’s get straight in there… 1. Track the social media performance of your competitors with unmetric.com – This new service gives you the ability to monitor the performance of [...]

Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and platforms

Adam — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:54:06 +0000

Brrrrrr! It might be snowing in London (and incredibly cold!) but that hasn’t stopped us from serving up a collection of this week’s hottestnew social media tools and platforms. To help warm you up, were giving this week’s post a ‘green theme’ – yep, the green we all want more of, money. Let’s introduce our [...]

Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and web apps

Adam — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:59:17 +0000

Here comes this week’s round-up of the five most useful new social media tools and web apps courtesy of the team at Paratus in London. As usual, we’ve tracked down some great new finds, including a free tool which reduces the pain surrounding influencer identification on Twitter. Let’s unwrap this week’s goodies… 1. Slick new [...]

‘Snakes and Ladders’ from AXA brings gamification to LinkedIn

Paratus — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:56:47 +0000

AXA, one of the largest general insurers in the UK (and a Paratus client), has just launched its first direct business insurance service for small businesses. We’ve been busy supporting the launch via a number of channels and platforms this week, most notably a game specifically created for LinkedIn. Amanda Blanc, CEO AXA Commercial Lines, [...]

Platform Five – This Week’s Most Useful New Social Media Tools and Platforms

Adam — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:48:05 +0000

It’s been another huge week in the world of new web apps and social media tools. The award for the ‘buzziest’ launch of the week has to go to Wunderkit.com – the collaboration tool from Berlin-based start-up 6Wunderkinder. But, there were some others generating some noise too, and here they are (complete with easy-to-categorise ‘tags’ [...]

Platform Five: This week’s most useful new social media tools and upgrades

Adam — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:58:46 +0000

Welcome to Platform Five – our weekly look at the newest social media tools making waves around the web. This week’s edition includes your own video content aggregator service, an alias mobile number creator and a serious QR Code service provider. Ready to ride? OK, hop on… 1. Create video channel feeds based on your [...]

Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and updates

Adam — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:35:37 +0000

Welcome to our weekly look at the new social media tools that are causing a stir around the web. This year, we’re also including a section called ‘track changes’ which focuses on the major updates and upgrades to existing social media platforms to keep you in the know on that front too. Sound like something [...]

Here is why you should be ‘pinterested’

Antonia — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:52:03 +0000

Pinterest, the new picture/video sharing platform, has been kicking up quite a fuss within the social media community. Discussions of its usefulness are a daily occurrence and while opinions differ from social media strategist to social media strategist, we at Paratus believe that there’s in fact room for a platform such as Pinterest and this [...]

Platform Five: This week’s most useful new social media tools

Adam — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:02:21 +0000

Happy new year! We’re back with our regular feature called ‘Platform Five’ – a weekly look at the latest social media tools and platforms that a causing a stir around the web. You’ll notice some changes in the format this year, most significantly, a new section called ‘Track Changes’ which aims to highlight the countless [...]