One of the highlight’s of Cybher™ 2012 were our amazing satchels, made exclusively for Cybher™ by The Leather Satchel Company and this year they are back with a brand new exclusive Cybher™ bag, that you have the opportunity to design!

The Cybher Bag Design Competition

This is our bag in its stripped down state, in a couple of different colour options. It’s a Cybher™ Pod Bag and we want you to design the Digital Print that will cover it to create one of this year’s conference bags.

Here are a couple of examples of bags with Digital Print applied to spark your imagination.

So what are we after?

Think Cybher™ and all of the things we stand for and then get designing – Think Geek. Think Chic. Think Inspire.

To enter, simply download the bag template and create your design. Closing date for entries is quite tight, we need them back by midnight on Monday 20th May. The winner will be chosen by the Cybher™ team and made up in time for the conference on Saturday 1st June. You will of course get your winning bag to keep and show off at every single opportunity.

To enter, download the Cybher™ bag template to create your design to size. Entries can be hand drawn, photographic, patterned, text based or something else entirely.

When your design is complete, simply scan it (high res please) and email to Sian@cybher.com before the closing date. A confirmation email response will be sent all entries received. If you do not receive confirmation please feel free to Tweet us @Cybher to arrange an alternative delivery method.

Be creative and have fun!

You don’t have to be attending Cybher™ 2013 to enter. Please read the full terms and conditions before entering.

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Collective Bias® is a social shopper media company based in Bentonville, Arkansas, with satellite offices in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Toronto and London.

Through Social Fabric®, a proprietary community consisting of approximately 1,300 shopping-focused influencers with an aggregate multichannel reach of more than 40 million, they weave organic social content into engaging, real-life stories to create millions of impressions leading to increased share of voice, SEO, and ultimately sales for brands and retailers.

Collective Bias was named one of America’s Most Promising Companies in 2013 by Forbes.

As part of their launch into the UK, Collective Bias are hosting the Cybher™ cocktail party in Boyd’s Bar at 8 Northumberland from 6pm – 11pm.

Their team will be around all day for you to get more information about their UK plans and exactly how you can get involved.

For more information, please visit www.collectivebias.com, @CollectiveBias and /CollectiveBias on Facebook.

Get your Cybher™ 2013 ticket here.

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There’s a feeling of unease that’s descended over UK bloggers in the last few weeks. Talk of disclosure, non-disclosure, do follow links, no follow links and loss of Page Rank as Google clamps down on people we know (by name) for breaching their clear terms and conditions.

It’s like the Twilight Zone blogger special as unscrupulous SEO agencies blatantly lie in any and every which way they can to score that undisclosed, paid follow link –  but enough is enough.

Bloggers – and I mean all bloggers need to wake up and start towing the line because non disclosure is not only unethical, it’s also unlawful.

Despite what your average friendly ‘link building’ operative may have told you, disclosure is really pretty straightforward. It goes like this…

If you have been paid (in money, vouchers, air miles, chocolate, fluffy kittens or product of any kind) to write a post, or add a link to an old post then you have a legal obligation to declare that relationship in the body of the post.

The reason you have to declare that relationship is so that you don’t unduly influence the ‘average consumer’ into making a purchase that they wouldn’t have done without reading your post. So marking a post, brought to you by…, in conjunction with, guest post or any other ‘beat around the bush’ term just isn’t ok. Neither is adding a graphic image to the end of your post emblazoned with the scary S word that you are too afraid to type. Many readers have images turned off if they are reading via mobile device and again, it’s another tactic to try to sneak under the radar.

At the end of the day, a sponsored post is a sponsored post. END OF.

If you haven’t already familiarised yourself with the Internet Advertising Bureau UK’s Guidelines on the Payment for Editorial Content to Promote Brands within Social Media you need to, NOW.

Non disclosure is a breach of  the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Act 2008, it’s also unethical and prevalent amongst many blogger communities.

We are all for best practice here at Cybher™, how about you join us in that stance?

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• RIP Google Reader (via Mashable)
• Facebook Timeline redesign is rolling out now (via Mashable)
• Dear PR, NO, I won’t write for free (via Mummy-Tips)
• 40 Alternatives to Google Reader (Via E Consultancy)
• 10 and a bit stats on why the visual web matters (via Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics)
• Technorati’s Digital Influence Report says “Be nice to bloggers” (via SMI)
• Introducing Pinterest analytics (via Pinterest)
• Hashtags may be coming to Facebook (via Mashable)

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Here’s what we’ve been reading this week…

• How to stop Auto DM Spam on Twitter (via Bad-Fiction)
• Trouble logging into your Evernote account this week? Here’s why (via BBC News)
• A sneaky peek at Facebook’s new Timeline design (via The Next Web)
• Twitter is killing TweetDeck for iPhone and Android (via Mashable)
• How to customise the new Google+ Cover Photo (via Stephan Hovnanian)
• 25 Terrible things you should never include in your Twitter bio (via MediaBistro and flagged by Violet Fenn)
• The most irritating responses to International Women’s Day and how to retort (via Vagenda Magazine)

And if you do spot any of those Twitter bio crimes – do leave a link in the comments!

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• Twitter shortens tweets by two characters (via Telegraph)
• Nokia launches a £13 phone that you only need to charge once a month (via Daily Mail)
• Adobe debuts Photoshop Touch smart phone app (via Techcrunch)
• The stupid cookie law is dead (via SilkTide)
• The history of rap (via Bad-Fiction)
• I’m a social media guru (via Blogger Bitches)

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• Posterous will turn off on April 30 – back up now (via Posterous)
• How to stop Auto DM Spam on Twitter (via Bad Fiction)
• How to add your PerrIndex Badge to your blog (via Geekisnewchic)
• Rel=’Publisher’ for Brand-Savvy Marketers (via State of Search)
• How to make your social media content more shareable (via Simply Zesty)
• Dear PR and SEO companies (via MummyBarrow)
• Burger King adds 30,000 new fans to Twitter account following an almighty hack and takeover (via Wall Blog)

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• Are you fed up of blogger competitions? (via Big Fashionista)
• Which one of these concepts is the new Apple Smart Watch? (via Mashable)
• 7 Ways to Groom your Kids for Online Stardom (via Geekless Tech)
• Why Google Authorship is important (via Social Media Today)
• Facebook is testing ‘Buy Tickets’ links for events, but will it get into the ticketing business? (via The Next Web)
• 10 digital strategists to watch in 2013 (via The Guardian)
• Social Media addiction recognised as an official condition (via Socialmediainfluence.com)
• Blogs have bigger influence on purchase decisions than Facebook has (via Twingly)

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• 20 henious examples of social media jargon (via E Consultancy)
• Social Media – It’s social innit? (via Rosie Scribble)
• What ads will look like on your Instagram feed (via Mashable)
• 10 Tips to drive Twitter traffic to your blog (via Social Mouths)
• 7 social networks to keep an eye on in 2013 (via The Wall Blog)
• Kids app ‘translates’ grown-up paper into child-friendly articles  (via BBC)
• How hackers use social networks to destroy your online life ((via Social Media Today)
• Introducing your Instagram feed on the web (via Instagram)

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Dear Claire, Sian & all at Cybher HQ

Davina receives a briefing from TV crews in the vaccine centre in Ghana. She is recording live appeals for Red Nose day as well as live link ups to UK television shows throughout the day and radio interviews. Everyone is working really hard to get the #goodwork message across as quickly and efficiently as possible. Around us women cuddle and feed their babies as they wait for lifesaving vaccinations.

Love Penny

This is a digital postcard sent from TeamHonk (www.mammasaurus.co.uk;www.aresidence.co.uk; www.mummybarrow.com) during their travels with Comic Relief in Ghana celebrating #goodwork. 

For the past 25 years the money raised through Red Nose Day has been changing the lives of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa. Let’s Keep Up the Good Work. Find out how at rednoseday.com

For other digital postcards please do join up and check out the linky on www.teamhonk.org

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