Social networking has become a huge part of our lives, so much so that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to escape them whether we’re online or not! Many people use social networks for both personal and professional reasons and I wanted to share with you a little insight into how I use them. Facebook I was …
Don’t worry, you haven’t stumbled across a ‘Poetry for beginners’ post (I’m afraid I never mastered that particular literary art!) but one about the different types of media marketers can use to connect with consumers. POEM stands for paid, owned and earned media, and all three types should be used by marketers to create a …
This weekend I was in Clevedon in the South West of England to celebrate a quite brilliant achievement – my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. Besides having fun and catching up with family, I also felt this was a weekend of reflection. The idea of anyone doing anything for 60 years is mind-blowing and at times …
Social media has proved to be a great leveller, allowing any company to join in and be apart of the social web. The barriers to entry are low and as a result corporate use of social media is growing exponentially. However, although it may be relatively simple to set up and create a social media …
On Thursday 22nd September Facebook held its 2011 f8 developer conference in San Francisco, California, an annual event with the aim of generating collaboration and networking between entrepreneurs and developers as well as announcements of new Facebook updates. With the introduction of Google’s new social platform, Google+, earlier in the summer, there was a lot …
Earlier in the year I blogged about the social media heavyweights I think YOU should be following. This included links to the blogs, websites, and social media pages of some of the biggest and brightest personalities in the world of social media. But a recent post by Mitch Joel made me think about other marketing websites, …