Articles from October 2011

What’s your social influence this Christmas?

on 30 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

Social influence is the latest online marketing hot button. Various software solutions are being evolved to measure your influence and how seriously you take their measure is probably going to be directly proportional to your measure of social influence on their particular platform ;)

LiaiseOnline have come up with a social influence Christmas competition for your enjoyment and to see which software producer has the most influence in the market place

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Redesigning company web pages for today’s visitors

on 29 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

Today’s company web page visitor wants to establish if you can help quickly, they don’t want to have to dig too hard to establish the basics

We have redesigned our LiaiseOnline group of websites using a great little widget which presents 6 key points using sliding panels at the top of each page… no need to click from page to page, making it easier for the visitor to find out

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LinkedIn training workshop formats to meet your business needs

on 23 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

When we launched our LinkedIn workshops, 2 years ago, we started with a 90 minute workshop and grew into the full day How to use LinkedIn for Business

Shortly, Social Media Directors will launch two alternatives to our ever popular full day How to use LinkedIn for Business workshop. While the full day workshop gives a very comprehensive review of how to use LinkedIn for business purposes, many business people these days feel

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Online community managers need to set few simple rules

on 18 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

LinkedIn Groups require and online community manager to set a few basic rules to ensure the group stay on track and on message

When you start an online community then you need to try and manage the group with a small set of rules from the start. It might appear easier to just let people do as they please but

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Posting Discussions to Multiple LinkedIn Groups

on 17 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

Don’t waste your time by posting the same discussion to multiple groups at the same time… it will irritate more folk than will take time to click… it’s counter productive…

You need to be engaged with your audience for them to take the time to click through and find out more about who you really are…

At the weekend I ran with an experiment. I posted the same discussion to

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1000th Business in Berkshire LinkedIn Group Members

on 15 October, 2011 No comments as yet -

Who will become the Business in Berkshire 1000th LinkedIn Group Member?

LinkedIn has over 125,000,000 members world wide… that’s like loads! And nearly 1000 have joined our Business in Berkshire Group since 6th August 2008

Most of the members are inactive… they ticked the box to join but don’t contribute in anyway… Microsoft call these folk lurkers and when I heard this term a couple of years ago it was very reassuring. If you have spend year’s trying to build momentum into an online community, it can be terribly frustrating when you spend time encouraging folk to join in, they say they will and then nothing happens.

Times they are a changing… it’s time for ACTION…

Today according to Neil Warren, community leader over at Modern Selling, in 2005 it took 4 calls to speak to a decision maker… today it takes

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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.