Category Archives: Social media

How I use my social networks

Social networking has become a huge part of our lives, so much so that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to escape them whether we’re online or not! Many people use social networks for both personal and professional reasons and I wanted to share with you a little insight into how I use them. Facebook I was […]


Discover the role of your social brand

Social media has proved to be a great leveller, allowing any company to join in and be apart of the social web. The barriers to entry are low and as a result corporate use of social media is growing exponentially. However, although it may be relatively simple to set up and create a social media […]


The new Facebook Timeline: My first impressions

On Thursday 22nd September Facebook held its 2011 f8 developer conference in San Francisco, California, an annual event with the aim of generating collaboration and networking between entrepreneurs and developers as well as announcements of new Facebook updates. With the introduction of Google’s new social platform, Google+, earlier in the summer, there was a lot […]


27 social media insights from SMM11

On the 19th September 2011, I attended the Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 (SMM11) conference in London, an event set up and run by Luke Brynley-Jones at Our Social Times. Unfortunately, I’ve not had a chance to attend many digital and social media events over the past year and so it was great to finally get opportunity to do […]


Developing the case for social integration

Earlier this year Jeremiah Owyang presented a webinar (in association with Janrain and Badgville) on ‘How to Integrate Social into your Website‘. The webinar, based on research by the Altimeter Group, introduced a roadmap for social integration and explained how websites evolve as part of an iterative process. In the webinar Jeremiah stresses the importance […]


A beginner’s guide to Facebook’s EdgeRank

Facebook is becoming an increasingly popular social media marketing tactic for many businesses as they look to take advantage of the 650 million+ user base the social network has built up since its launch in 2007. With 1 in every 13 people in world with an account, Facebook is by far the world’s biggest social […]