Good + Innovative Design = Gold Ad Award Winner At Cannes Lions 2010

In my World Water Day post on March 22nd, I shared with you an inspiring and totally innovative live ad that was on display in Paris, at the Place du Palais Royal.

I’m thrilled to tell you today that the “Water talks” installation designed for NGO Solidarités International by BDDP won a Gold Award in the Outdoor Display category at the Cannes Lions 2010 international advertising festival.

Congratulations to the French agency BDDP Unlimited and its team.

Here’s the full video of the installation, from setup to display:

Here’s again what I’d captured ad hoc on my BlackBerry:

Wrapping up with my scribbles on search marketing. Week May 3rd-7th

In order of recency… Click on headlines to read stories

Friday May 7th
Social Networking Scores Biggest Rise in Q1 U.S. Mobile Use
“World Wide Web” Now A Reality With Non-Latin IDNs
Bing Wants to Socialize Shopping Experience
MSN China posts FY09 profit on operating sales of US$50-70m

Thursday May 6th
Dwell Time As Ad Campaign KPI: Yes, But…
38 Apps in the Google Analytics App Gallery

Wednesday May 5th
Yahoo Answers Hits 1 Billionth Milestone
Sysomos’ Audience Slaps Dollar Face Value With Influence Analysis To Measure Social Media ROI
Google Bets US$38.8M On Wind, Solar & Geothermal Clean Tech

Tuesday May 4th
Embeddable Tweets Likely to Create Signals for Twitter Search

Monday May 3rd
Steve Jobs May Need Anti-Scrutiny App As Spat vs Adobe Backlashes
Nachofoto Real-Time Image Search Lives Up to The Hype
How Much Will Google Bank On U.S. Real Estate Market Recovery?

Happy reading and … wishing you all a great weekend !

SEWatch Links today – Embedded Tweets, Google Goes Green, Yahoo Answers, Social Media ROI

Click on headline to read story

- Yahoo Answers Hits 1 Billionth Milestone
- Google Bets US$38.8M On Wind, Solar & Geothermal Clean Tech
- Embeddable Tweets Likely to Create Signals for Twitter Search
- Sysomos’ Audience Slaps Dollar Face Value With Influence Analysis To Measure Social Media ROI

It’s World Water Day ! Help me help them on Social Vibe

Hello !

Today is World Water Day.

As such there’s a viral social good campaign going on on Twitter: people are sending tweets to help charity:water.

If you want to have a look at the feed, click here: http://ow.ly/1pu9e.

Jack dorsey, aka @Jack, creator, co-founder and chairman of Twitter (as says his bio) has taken on the cause and tweeted it. From there on, predictably enough, news spread fast worldwide, with people passing on the message he sent out.

So to join this global movement, please take a few minutes to click on Social Vibe on the right sidebar: we’re being sponsored to help collect funds for charity:water — and it’s not just today, as you know.

Thanks !

To help, click over here ——>

Here’s a video of an art installation I just shot this evening at Palais Royal in Paris, France, for World Water Day.

Social Media World Forum: join the open list on Twitter !

A note to those of you who are either just interested or are coming to the Social Media World Forum in London, March 15-16th.
I’ve created an open list on Twitter, just add yourself by following it at: http://ow.ly/1gOaz or http://twitter.com/merrybubbles/smwf

Join the crowd of like-minded Tweeps !

There’s a bunch of us so you should be pretty well covered in case you’re not coming. It looks like the hastag will be #smwf.

Please RT !

… and if this post sounds cryptic to some of you, I strongly recommend you join Twitter altogether and start using it for pleasure, work, or information purposes. There’s a lot out there to benefit from, I promise.