Articles from August 2010

Your Social Media home online

on 14 August, 2010 1 comment so far -

There has been an ongoing theme – to be honest, for quite a while now -  resurfacing at various intervals, about the imminent death of blogging, generally to be replaced it seems with the social media tools of the moment such as Facebook and Twitter.

For a small minority, I would agree that this may well be on the cards. The ability to connect with people using little bitesized chunks of information is tempting and may seem easier than sitting down and writing something longer than the typical “update”. However, for the vast majority, and particularly businesses looking to use social media as a tool to reach their customers – shouldn’t we all be? ;) – I would say that this prediction is premature in the extreme.

Indeed, with social media now firmly ensconced among the more established marketing and communications tools, I would suggest that not only will we not see a decline in the role of blogging, we will actually see it grow in importance. If you have a moment, then let me explain why – I guarantee that it’ll be worthwhile. …

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LinkedIn Workshop:
Getting the best out of LinkedIn

on 4 May, 2010 No comments as yet -

Introduction to LinkedIn Workshop“How do you use Linkedin?” is a question that is asked by an increasing number of people, especially business people.

This is our next LinkedIn Group event and will be a chance for our LinkedIn Group members to engage in good old fashioned face to face networking while also uncovering some of the hidden depths of Linkedin.
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Social Media Directors run Social Media Training and Social Media Courses as well as delivering Social Media Workshops. Onsite training is done nationally, but the social media training courses run near London in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire focussing on locations such as Reading, Guildford and Bracknell. LinkedIn training and LinkedIn courses across the UK.