Twitter introduces a one click ‘follow’ button – try it on your website

1 June 2011

Yesterday Twitter introduced a one-click ‘follow’ button – see examples to the right sidebar of this blog post. The idea of the button is that you can allow people who are signed into twitter to follow you with one click, from your website, blog or other web page. A very useful tool as it associates [...]

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Linkedin – getting recommended the right way

14 May 2011
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One important aspect of your Linkedin Profile is the endorsements you get from people you know on Linkedin. Endorsements give your profile credibility by linking it back into ‘real life’. So how to get the five endorsements Linkedin recommends you aim for? We were discussing this on twitter tonight and the suggestion arose that getting [...]

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Should you use a photo of yourself on Social Media? Here are my reasons

11 May 2011

Wherever I’m on social media as a person I use the same picture, a photograph of me, taken by my husband on Christmas day. 2008 I think it was – there’s one down side! Today I was asked for a photo of me for use with an article I have going out in Building magazine [...]

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Business to Business Social Media –make sure you have your website working for you

9 May 2011

I had a telephone conversation with a fellow professional this morning about their new website (which I won’t share with you here for reasons which will become apparent). The person concerned has invested in an attractive new site which has some very useful features, is approachable and demonstrates their experience well. The firm have also [...]

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Welcome to the blogosphere Flagship Housing

28 April 2011

Great to hear on twitter yesterday that the marketing manager for Flagship Housing who runs their twitter and Facebook accounts has set up a blog to help other RSLs and Local Authorities start using social tools to engage with their customers. Housing Associations are really good candidates for social media use, and this fact has [...]

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How to remove a non-employee from your Company Pages on Linkedin

11 March 2011

I recently noticed that someone had said they were ‘HR at’ my company on Linkedin, so I had to find out how to get them off. Here is how I did it. If you say you work at a company, Linkedin tries to associate you with that company on their database, so people may accidentally [...]

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PeerIndex and the Independent tells us nothing about Twitter

16 February 2011

I’ve been in two minds to blog about the scourge of ‘who is important on twitter’ answers but am moved to do so today by the collaboration between the Independent newspaper and PeerIndex. The reason why I’m moved to blog is that whilst both participants say that tools like PeerIndex and Klout aren’t perfect, they [...]

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Search Linkedin status updates – new feature

3 February 2011

Over the last few years many of the social media platforms have been attempting to introduce successful aspects of their competitor’s sites, and today I heard about another example of this – Signal from Linkedin. Signal lets you search the status updates of Linkedin users for key words. You can then filter these results using [...]

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Tarmac – Being there isn’t being Social

4 November 2010
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Daniel Maddocks recently posted an article about how Tarmac is using social media in construction, and their presence online is certainly impressive. Unlike most construction companies they have RSS feed buttons on their websites, a blog, twitter account, facebook fanpage and YouTube channel. Admirable. Daniel is currently studying Construction Project Management at the University of [...]

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85% of People in a Networking Group aren’t Networking

3 November 2010

Walk into a networking group meeting – you know the sort of event – a breakfast meeting, or maybe just a bit of ‘networking’ at another event. There will be people doing a range of things. Some will be ‘sharks’ working the room with a view to pushing their business cards on as many as [...]

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