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Application

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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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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General Election: After the debate 15th April #GE2010

15 April 2010

The figures don’t lie Reviewing the online conversations that took place during that debate, Nick Clegg looks to have won that round! From 7k + plus before the debate there are now 16,997 posts, with LibDems taking 51.6% of those, Labour 29.8% and Conservatives 18.6% But the devils in the detail so…: Labour Sentiment And [...]

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One for your toolbox: Qik

2 April 2010

The mobile phone is becoming less of a phone and more of a ‘all in one place’ communication tool. Developers of mobile applications are pushing the boundaries by producing mobile apps that enable people to engage, communicate and share experiences/moments that we would never before dreamed possible by such a small device. One of these [...]

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In the beginning there was sliced bread, and then came Radian6

18 March 2010

I love my job because I get to find out what people are talking about online, communicate, engage using social media everyday. But what has always been ‘challenging’ was monitoring and measuring. That was until I started using Radian6. So what is Radian6? Well, there is a sentence on the Radian6 website that sums it [...]

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One for your toolbox: discussing DisQus

19 February 2010

At first glance you might be fooled into thinking that Disqus (pronounced ‘Discuss’) was just another commenting system – but… you’d be mistaken. I thought the same, 9 months ago. Actually, if I’m being honest I originally installed it because it looked better, asthetically speaking, than any of the other options. But now I wouldn’t [...]

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