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Social Media

Getting your head around linkedin

7 October 2010

It was great evening at the SME 2.0 ‘tagtribe’ event last night. The room was split between experienced Linkedin users and some fairly new to it… There were a few questions on certain how tos which I said that I would blog about today – but rather than write it all out – I’ve done [...]

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Don’t miss out – a simple thank you will suffice

4 October 2010

I get a lot of questions asking about how to communicate with people online, which may seem simple to some but it appears to cause hours of sleepless nights to others… What if should I do if no-one replies? What should I do if someone replies? What tone of voice should I reply in? etc [...]

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One for your toolbox: ShareThis Analytics

10 September 2010

Yesterday I posted the start of a mini series ‘Defining the elusive meaningful metric‘, where I discussed: Engagement for me is when someone cares enough about what you have written to such an extent that they felt compelled to do something about it. and Metrics I like to use to understand the effectiveness of online [...]

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Defining the elusive meaningful metric

9 September 2010

When you write a post – whether it’s a tweet, blog or comment etc – and people read it, repeat it and they like it – this can at times lead us to feeling ‘I’ve done it. I’m finally reaching people’ But in point of fact, this is only the beginning. Because even though tracking [...]

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An Idea Worth Spreading: Coca~Cola Happiness Machine UK

7 September 2010

I came across this youtube video from Coca~Cola (launched today 7th September 2010) that is truely REMARKABLE, and one that clearly everyone involved in will talk about, think about for a very long time to come. In fact I don’t think they’ll approach a Coke machine ever again without thinking about it or wondering ‘I [...]

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The Eyes Have It

13 August 2010

I have a bit of a fixation with eyes – for me they are the gateway to the soul. You can tell exactly how someone is feeling or whether they agree or disagree with you just by looking into them. Those little ‘inflections’ that appear when a person is talking about a subject that they’re [...]

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495 Social Niche and Not-So Niche Site Links #LLBS

20 July 2010

This post is support my 7 min talk at the Late Late Breakfast Show, at the Sway Hotel in Holburn tonight (20th July 2010). I will keep adding to this list when I come across sites, but if you know of any that are not here please can you add them in comments. For those [...]

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Twinterview ‘Making Social Media Work for You’ hosted by @abarge

2 July 2010

So as promised becasue the #shoestring tag wasn’t displaying the stream correctly – I think it was sabotaged #joke – I’ve integrated my tweets into the stream for those who might have found it difficult to follow… If you were following along and didn’t manage to get a question in or you’ve thought up a [...]

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Be2CampEast June2010 – Getting Jiggy with Viddy

24 June 2010

Be2Camp East June 2010 presentation – Getting jiggy with_viddy View more presentations from Lee Smallwood.

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