This slideshare explains some of the ways that Apple and IBM stopped themselves from sliding into oblivion – a fate that appears to be awaiting Yahoo!, RIM, Nokia and AOL.
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How many of your Twitter Followers are Really Fake Accounts?
How many of your Followers are real accounts? Over the last few months the number of Twitter accounts offering ‘Followers’ for sale has increased and increased.
The Needles from P&O Adonia
This is my first ever view of The Needles, taken from P&O Adonia on her way to France and Spain
Social Media Training at BNI Royal Windsor
On Friday August 3rd 2012 I gave a scheduled 1.5 hour training session on using Twitter for marketing for the Royal Windsor Chapter of BNI.
Social Media Seminars in Birmingham in July 2012
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 […]
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 […]