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  • #NLHour – What’s that all about?

    If you’re on Twitter you may have seen tweets all including the same hashtag #NLHour, #LincsHour, #UKBizLunch etc all happening at the same time. What you will have stumbled upon is an online networking hour. “A what?” I hear you ask An online networking hour, if you think networking (popping along to a meeting or […]

  • How to mess up your social media – Part 3 #Hashtags

    The third part of this series of how to mess up your social media focuses on Hashtags.  To start what is a hashtag – Used on a few social networks but most commonly found on Twitter, the definition from Twitter Help Centre is as follows : So how can you mess up using a Hashtag …. […]

  • How to mess up your social media – Part 2 Bad Taste

    How to Mess up your Social Media – Part 2 Following on from last weeks introduction to “How to mess up your Social Media – Don’t train your staff” we move nicely on to the second way you can mess up your social media efforts. This is something I am seeing more on accounts as […]

  • How to mess up your social media – Part 1 Don’t train your staff

    How to Mess up your Social Media – Part 1 I was asked to do a 20 minute presentation at the last Mercurious Networking Meeting and true to the hostesses form (Belinda from ABC accounting) she didn’t want boring, she didn’t want preachy, she wanted different and slightly crazy!! So my first official networking presentation …. Nothing standard […]

  • Facebook Permissions – Don’t get caught out

    I’ve have just finished working with a lovely local client who rang explaining she required a Facebook page for her hairdressing boutique, from this experience a blog post comes to light to advise you in the hope you are not bitten as she unfortunately had been!! Iona, owner of Crowning Glory, has agreed for the […]

  • A Dogs Tale of Social Media

    Well day 4 of Social Media Week is an unusual guest blog, as it’s not really a guest blog at all but more of me sharing information about another Twitter account I run, this is a lessoned learned account about my dogs twitter account (@SullyGSD), bear with me …. I promise it’s useful and worth […]

  • Social Media Week

    I’ve just returned from my yearly two whole weeks without the Internet and just sun, sea, sand and the residents local “water” … this year the local water was tequila! Mexico was fun!! But now I’m back and I’m straight back into the world of the Internet and as much as I enjoy my time […]

  • How Social Media has worked for Studio 55

    With the introduction of  the internet at the end of our hands with fabulous smart phones some individuals and businesses seem to have forgotten their basic social skills. Whether this is playing on Twitter whilst having a family meal (I saw this in the pub last week, no-one talking but all on their iPhones!!) or […]