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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Using Linkedin Properly – Chelmsford Womens Referral Network

28 September 2010

Tomorrow I’m giving a talk to the Chelmsford Women’s Referral Network, a group of professional women organised by Judy Day, a solicitor at Prettys, Kirsten Woodgate, previously of Lloyds Banking Group now KLW Business Evolution and, Joanna Hamblin director at Bird Luckin Chartered Accountants. The group aims to give professional women working in Chelmsford the [...]

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Twitter is Stretchy and Sticky

22 September 2010

One aspect of Twitter some beginners have difficulty with is the concept of time. Is this you? You’ve learned how to send replies on twitter and someone doesn’t reply straight away, you’re wondering, what did I say? It seems quite natural with email. We send the email, perhaps get a read receipt, and don’t expect [...]

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Seven First Steps in Twitter – 2: Finding People You Know – ScreenCast

13 September 2010

When you’re starting out using Twitter, your real life friends and contacts can be immensely useful. Apart from anything else they are likely to be the most sympathetic with your early attempts to understand the medium, and they’ll help you get started. If they are any good at networking they’ll also start introducing you to [...]

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Paper.li makes twitter stickier

9 September 2010

About a fortnight or so ago I got featured in the first paper.li daily news thanks to @stevenhealey who often finds things first. When I saw it I was absolutely fascinated, because it met a need I had identified – people don’t want to miss stuff on twitter, particularly good links. It is really interesting [...]

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Seven First Steps in Twitter – 1: Strategy

8 September 2010

So what do you want to use Twitter FOR? In its purest form I find that twitter is good for: Listening Being Human Talking to People Linking to other things on the Web There is also a longer ‘what is Twitter useful for’ post here, looking at the question in more detail. All the uses [...]

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How to work out the size of your audience on Twitter in 4 Steps

7 September 2010

Today the Fresh Business Thinking website published an article of mine entitled “Twitter is a Serious Business Tool” which has received more than a little interest, which is great. Over the next days I’m going to elaborate on some of the ideas in the article, and I’ve started with this one because it has raised [...]

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Seven First Steps to Take on Twitter

4 September 2010

Many people have difficulty knowing where to start with twitter and can easily become discouraged because the interface is not intuitive and you can end up shouting in a barrel! Last February I gave a workshop on twitter which made these suggestions, and you may find them a useful starting point. Have a strategy you [...]

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