In July I went on a rail trip around the UK presenting LinkedIn and Twitter seminars, with Dennis Brown of UK4Business, in Edinburgh, Manchester and finally in Birmingham. The journey to Birmingham went smoothly with hardly any time to gain FourSqaure check-ins at stations en route. The good news was that a 3G signal was […]
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Personal Information in LinkedIn
In my recent round of LinkedIn seminars for The Social Media Bureau I noticed that a number of the attendees had gone to the trouble of filling out all of their Personal Information on LinkedIn but hadn’t taken the precaution of protecting their identity fully.
Social Media Seminars in Manchester in July 2012
LinkedIn and Twitter social media training seminars in Manchester
Social Media Seminars in Edinburgh in July 2012
LinkedIn and Twitter social media training in Edinburgh in July 2012
Top 10 Marketing Questions to Refresh Your Memory
These Top 10 Marketing Questions are useful for new businesses or to refresh your memory about all the things you need to think about for your marketing plan:
Check Before Sending Messages Selected Using LinkedIn Tags
In our earlier post we described how to use tags to select and then to send messages to your LinkedIn connections. This post is an extra reminder to double check how you send these messages.
Using LinkedIn Tags
The tagging feature on LinkedIn is one that most of us discover far too late. However it’s really useful even if you haven’t yet categorised all of your contacts. To access the tagging feature select Contacts > Connections and on the left-hand side of the page you will see the Tags area.
Another Reason to Change your DNS to OpenDNS
I stopped using my ISP’s Domain Name Server (DNS) a few months ago as it was taking over 5 days to pickup client websites that had ‘moved’. I switched to using OpenDNS on the advice of my colleague, Graham Washbrook, from The Social Media Bureau and this immediately solved my problem with being able to […]
Attending Your First BNI Meeting
All you need to know to prepare before your first visit to BNI meeting as a visitor and what to expect once you are there
So your Twitter Account has been H+cked, Now what?
Increasingly Twitter accounts are a target and these are a few simple steps to take if you fall victim to such an attack
Dropbox – My Favourite Cloud Application
Examples of of how I use Dropbox every day to share videos, pictures and files
My First Phishing Attempt Initiated via LinkedIn
I have been a member of LinkedIn for many years and I am a great supporter of the site for professionals. I have used LinkedIn in the past to keep in contact with ex-colleagues, to make new contacts and more recently I have begun lecturing on how to use it to promote businesses. Earlier this month […]