Nick Baggott's CRM and Digital Marketing Blog

DFID Climate Change Blog Action Day

Happy to oblige by promoting this and linking to their blog. Blog Action Day for Climate Change

Marketing as it should be in 2009

Saw this on the train yesterday - poster for "This Festival Feeling" mag. A mag full of users views and reviews, promoted on facebook and twitter. For a free copy text your email address to the shortcode. Great!

Yoobot from British Heart Foundation

My 10 year old is addicted to Yoobot. It is a wonderful game made by the British Heart Foundation. It allows kids to build their own virtual character and then feed it, give it exercise etc and watch him or her grow up. The message is clear - eat well and do some exercise and you'll stay healthy.

The great thing is, my son is playing the game becasue it is fun, not because it is educational. His friend at school introduced him to it, so I guess that is true viral marketing. An excellent interactive experience for kids. I even noticed that his character is now wearing a BHF branded T shirt that he bought with virtual money online

Wordle

Many thanks to my friends from Microsoft Sweden for sharing this awesome digital tool - Wordle .

Just point it at a document or web site (or in this case my delicious bookmark links) and it will draw up a word cloud using the words that are conmtained most frequently. Here is one I prepared earlier...