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E-consultancy reports a piece of research by CDMS claiming that 31% of the UK’s top companies are failing to comply with EU directives on Privacy and Electronic Communications.

My feedreader is awash with predictions, tips and hints for surviving 2007 in the world of marketing and public relations. The MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom 2007 is one of the best I’ve seen.

The BBC has an interesting story about French social networking site, Peuplade.

Late last year the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), of which I’m a member, published its discussion paper on social media. I’ve finally had a chance to respond with my thoughts.

UK marketers and businesses may not be aware of some new rules for UK companies using websites and email that were introduced on 1 January 2007.

Many bloggers use Feedburner to republish their RSS feeds. Feedburner has now launched a blog statistics service too, but how does it compare to other stats services?

ProBlogger Darren Rowse has a good good post updating on a new blog he set up in 2006.

The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK government’s centre of excellence for marketing and communications. In this email interview Jamie Galloway, COI’s Director of Digital Media, talks about how the UK government uses digital media in its campaigns.

The discussion about what makes a blog a blog has resurfaced again – I was struggling with a definition recently when putting together a presentation about social media, so the debate is particularly timely for me.

…to everyone who reads this. And for those who are waking up with a sore head this morning, I hope the hangover clears soon.