Tag Archives: social media

Four key social media strategies

Is your business using social media as part of its overall marketing strategy? Do you consider the relative social influence and authority of customers? And if so, do you tailor customer service, pricing or product selection as a result? A research study from the Harvard Business Review has found that companies actively using social media […]

Google Plus – My first impressions

Google+, the new social networking platform from Google, has caused a bit of a stir in social media circles (no pun intended!) over the past ten days or so. Since Google announced a limited number of invites to the ‘Google+ Project‘, the blogosphere has been buzzing with views, reviews and opinions. Google+ is intended to […]

6 steps to polishing your personal brand

This post was inspired by an article in the March 2011 edition of the Harvard Business Review by Dorie Clark. Whether we like it or not, we all have a personal brand. We are not defined by who we think we are, but by how others perceive us. And with the increasing power of search engines and social […]

Listen up!

As the web becomes increasingly social, more people and communities are taking the opportunity to talk about you, your company and brand – whether you like it or not. The questions is: are you listening? The social web is an incredibly democratising space, allowing anyone and everyone to become a publisher. Blogging, microblogging, social networking […]

Social media heavyweights

During the early part of the year I published three blog posts outlining a number of ‘social media heavyweights’ – people and resources that I consider to be outstanding in their field as publishers and curators of social media expertise. Many of these ‘heavyweights’ can be found in the ‘Great blogs’ column on the right-hand […]