Twitter can be an excellent social media tool as a part of a larger
search engine optimisation plan, but it can also be a danger. When you’re concerned about your online (more…)
Be selective when tweeting
The secret to social networking success
Quick, come over here. I’ve got a secret to tell you. Now, you’ve got to promise not to share it with anybody – we can’t have everyone honing in on the action. You want to know the secret to being popular on social networks for your search engine optimisation plan? Listen very, very closely: the secret to this popularity is… (more…)
Saudi women driving campaign a success thanks to social media
A campaign ‘Women2Drive’ was launched to urge Saudi women to drive their cars on 17th June 2011. The Facebook campaign has played an instrumental role in encouraging Saudi women to drive, just like their male counterparts. There is no law preventing a woman from driving in Saudi Arabia, but they can’t get a driver’s licence (more…)
The social media party: think cocktails, not pub
Social media networking is often compared to regular social situations. If a social media site was a party, as some SEO experts put it, then you need to know which party frock to wear. Or, to put it in a more practical way, you need to know which party manners to display.
The trouble with (more…)
Facebook Marketing: More than a social network
With the Oscar winning film the Social Network (the so-called dramatisation of how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook) being one of the biggest films of last year, and Facebook itself eclipsing Google as the website with most number of page views in the UK, it’s hardly any wonder that many businesses look at Facebook with a sense of mistrust, curiosity and intrigue.
It’s true that more man-hours are lost in the UK to Facebook than (more…)
Are you a social media commitophobe?
Do you get the chills when someone asks you to commit to Facebook? Do you ignore those ‘you have a reminder for
LinkedIn‘ emails that pop up with such desperate frequency in your inbox? Do you fail to return tweets? If you do these or a number of other things, you may (more…)
Facebook updates Facebook Pages
Facebook today made an update to Facebook Pages to bring it in line with profile pages. The new layout for Facebook Pages, which officially goes live on March 10th, is being trialled by a few pages already as page owners have the option of previewing the updates, or accepting them straight away.
Much like regular profile pages, the new layout of the Facebook Pages features (more…)
Don’t be a ‘muppet’ about social media
‘It’s not easy being green‘, Kermit the Frog once said. It’s the colour of so many ordinary things. He was right – green is a fairly ordinary colour, and tends to blend in. Yet, somehow, Kermit managed to (more…)







