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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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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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A Very Innocent Rabbit

19 April 2010
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A funny thing happened to me on the way home from work on Friday. I was innocently scanning the stream of people I follow on twitter when I noticed that @Innocentdrinks (the makers of the lovely Innocent smoothies my son loves so much) had a new ad, so iPhones being what they are, I clicked [...]

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Twitter: No-one Reads Everything you Say (and that’s OK)

15 March 2010
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When first starting out on twitter, we follow our friends and people of interest, and some follow us back. Do you find yourself reading the whole stream – making sure you don’t miss anything? What happens when you’ve found over 50 people to follow – do you still read everything they say? This is the [...]

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Linkedin Destroys Company Confidentiality – No it doesn’t

5 January 2010

One of my recent construction industry connections emailed me yesterday about a dilemma he was having in Linkedin. This is what he said: Hi Su, Trying to get my head around LinkedIn and connecting to people who work for direct competitor organisations. Whether that is a good thing or not? For example colleagues who used [...]

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Twitter – How to Reply

18 December 2009

Replies are what conversations are made of on twitter. They can’t be complicated can they? Well there are some subtleties you should know about. Here’s some tips to get you started. Lets take a look at twitter.com to see how they look. 1. Tweeting from your Home Page Lets make some tweets from the ‘Home’ [...]

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