Awards Blog

About this blog...

This is the Carnyx Awards Blog for our awesome competitions The Chip Shop Awards, Online Media Awards, Social Buzz Awards and DADI Awards brought to you by social media chap Craig McGill.
Expect insight, interviews, reviews and snark. Especially snark.

We'd also encourage you to enter all the awards to make you feel better about yourself.

Would you read The Drum on an iPad in the bath or is paper better?

Opinion: Awards Blog

With just weeks to go until the Social Buzz Awards night, we're in no doubt that people are already pampering themselves up and getting... Read more

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Craig McGill - 30/10/2012

Social Media

Stewart Kirkpatrick, Yes Scotland Head of Digital

Interview: Yes Scotland Head of Digital Stewart Kirkpatrick

Opinion: Awards Blog

Today, the First Minister of Scotland and UK Prime Minister met to finalise the terms of Scotland's vote for independence in 2014. It is... Read more

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Craig McGill - 15/10/2012

Social Media

Interview: Why InkedIn might be the new LinkedIn for SEO

Opinion: Awards Blog

As anyone worth their salt in digital knows, SEO is a key cornerstone of outreach - either for social media or websites - and sites... Read more

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Craig McGill - 08/10/2012

Social Media

Fatbuzz's Gordon White tells us his Good, Bad & Ugly of Social Media

Opinion: Awards Blog

Gordon White is is well known as the man behind Fatbuzz and the New Media Breakfasts across Scotland - and now, as part of our The Good,... Read more

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Craig McGill - 14/09/2012

Social Media

Colin Kelly tells us The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Social Media

Opinion: Awards Blog

Colin Kelly is no stranger to these parts - having given a cracking interview earlier in the year about social media - and now, as part... Read more

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Craig McGill - 13/09/2012

Social Media

Interview: meet the top social media Scotland ranker Andrew Burnett

Opinion: Awards Blog

Andrew Burnett is a well-kent social media operator across the UK. Not only was he the first person to rank for the phrase Social Media... Read more

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Craig McGill - 06/09/2012

Social Media

"The rise of social shopper means a shift in consumer psychology" LivingSocial's Peter Briffet Interview

Opinion: Awards Blog

Peter Briffet knows technology - and consumers. His career at Microsoft and Reuters before now being UK GM at LivingSocial have shown him... Read more

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Craig McGill - 31/08/2012

Social Media

"Firms could get better social media results from the Karate Kid film than going to conferences" Lyndon Antcliff Interview

Opinion: Awards Blog

Content plays a large part in social media (and this is reflected in the Social Buzz Awards ) but creating content and seeding it... Read more

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Craig McGill - 29/08/2012

Social Media

Jamie Riddell Interview: What Google, Facebook & Twitter will do next

Opinion: Awards Blog

Today is the last chance to email in for an extension to the Social Buzz Awards and to mark the fact we're going to run not one, but two... Read more

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Craig McGill - 17/08/2012

Social Media

"PR should own social media" Martin Harrison Interview

Opinion: Awards Blog

Today is the last chance to email in for an extension to the Social Buzz Awards and to mark the fact we're going to run not one, but two... Read more

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Craig McGill - 17/08/2012

Social Media

GiffGaff talk Social Media (Social Buzz Interview)

Opinion: Awards Blog

Vincent Boon is the rather talented and Chief of Community/New Business Development at GiffGaff, the MVNO which has been praised for... Read more

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Craig McGill - 16/08/2012

Social Media

Social Media Review: Linkbait by Lyndon Antcliff

Opinion: Awards Blog

One of the great problems with social media - and in training social media to people - is that a printed book can be too slow to be the... Read more

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Craig McGill - 07/08/2012

Social Media

Broadcaster Colin Kelly talks social media

Opinion: Awards Blog

Colin Kelly was well-known to many across Scotland's Central Belt as one of the more popular voices of radio station Clyde 1 before... Read more

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Craig McGill - 06/08/2012

Social Media

So who fancies an extension to the Social Buzz Awards?

Opinion: Awards Blog

Picture the scene... it's just before 6pm last night at Social Buzz HQ and the emails start popping in asking for extensions to the best... Read more

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Craig McGill - 02/08/2012

Social Media

Final social media tip for Social Buzz entrants by Dave Coplin

Opinion: Awards Blog

Dave Coplin is the very personable and public face (at many an event) for Microsoft Google search killer Bing. He's also an incredibly... Read more

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Craig McGill - 01/08/2012

Social Media

Social Buzz Interview: Jeremy Waite

Opinion: Awards Blog

There's just days left to get Social Buzz Awards entries in - they close tomorrow and we thought we'd let judge Jeremy Waite, the Head of... Read more

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Craig McGill - 30/07/2012

Marketing

How to win a Social Buzz Award

Opinion: Awards Blog

We asked a couple of our Social Buzz Judges - the people who know social media inside and out - about what advice they would have for... Read more

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Craig McGill - 26/07/2012

Social Media

Brand Anarchy: This Summer's PR & Social Media 50 Shades of Grey

Opinion: Awards Blog

Brand Anarchy is the latest in a rapidly-growing area of social media advice books in the UK, brought to readers by the experienced PR... Read more

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Craig McGill - 24/07/2012

Marketing

Social Buzz Interview: Sedge Beswick from ASOS

Opinion: Awards Blog

Sedge Beswick is not only a wonderful social media practitioner, currently working with ASOS, she's also one of the judges for this year... Read more

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Craig McGill - 23/07/2012

Digital

Social Buzz Interview: Head Judge Paul Fabretti

Opinion: Awards Blog

With just under two weeks to get your entries in for the Social Buzz Awards, we thought we'd ask Head JudgePaul Fabretti for his thoughts... Read more

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Craig McGill - 20/07/2012

Digital