Tag: social media
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Overheard: Unappreciated social
Last week I was at a conference with a large number of national and international businesses. Following some breakout sessions I was standing behind three delegates from Phones for you in the lunch queue. It appeared they had been to a session about Social Media and were rather unimpressed with what they heard. Delegate one:…
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What do you share with who? Web 2.0 is slowly being locked down.
I often go through phases of using different social networks to update different people in what’s going on and chat to friends and colleagues. Each of my main networks (twitter, facebook, instagram, Flickr, Google+) is used by different groups of people in different ways, and it’s partly this that gets me active on one and…
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Essential iPad apps
It seems a tradition for anyone with a blog and an iPad to list their “essential” apps, so here’s mine. Accuweather – Is it still raining outside and you hadn’t noticed? http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/accuweather-free-for-ipad/id364616869 Adobe Ideas – Sketching app that also works with other documents for annotation. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-ideas-1-0-for-ipad/id364617858 Adobe Photoshop Express – Simple photo editor http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235 Amazon –…
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Playing about with flavours.me
Today I resurrected an account with flavours.me after a launch of Version 2 last week. As a social portfolio it does very well. The only obvious account mising for me was de.licio.us but apart from that all the usual suspects were there along with the ability to add your own RSS feeds. You get a selection of designs…
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Positive and negative Google Plus hyperboyle, it’s all the same.
These opinion pieces are everywhere. Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business 4 Reasons Google+ Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook’s Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’; 5 Reasons We Agree Why It is Wrong to Call Google Plus a Failure Google Plus may be…
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A social media example – not just opinion.
A good piece about difficulties and successes of using social media, with real examples – not just opinions! “A Positive Response to a ‘Negative’ Tweet“. How refreshing. About a month ago I had this same conversation with my friend Shira Lazar and she said something interesting. The topic was on trying to get someone to stop…
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Basics Of Social Media ROI
Thanks to Carl Haggerty for posting up this presentation by Oliver Blanchard, something which cuts through the social media crap and shows obvious ways to tell if all your social marketing is actually doing anything. And of course what’s key to any good presentation, it has excellent graphics. Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi…