social media

LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals where you post information about your work experience and career goals as opposed to baby snaps. It’s worth joining some groups once you’ve joined LinkedIn. I recommend joining ones related to your profession, and especially ones that organise meet ups in the real world, otherwise what’s the [...]

Join Facebook

If you are aren’t on Facebook already then just go for it. Take this as a sign from heaven. Your friends will be thrilled and they might even remember your birthday this year. If you made a conscious decision to live in the dark ages and not engage in social media then let me attempt [...]

Why you should use Twitter hash tags #

So you are all set up on Twitter and tweeting away to your hearts content, but how do you actually talk to some of the 200 million Twitter users? Hash tags, that’s how. What are hash tags # ? Hash tags help organise content on Twitter and it invites other people to take part in the conversation. [...]

Pimp my LinkedIn yo

At first, LinkedIn seems to be only interested in your job and not much else about you as a person, however, here are some ways of adding a bit of creativity and personality to your profile to make it a bit more human. Adding Applications You can easily add LinkedIn applications (under your main blue blox [...]

Getting started with LinkedIn

With 101 million users worldwide it’s probably best not to ignore LinkedIn. Here are some stats if you want convincing of its enormity. At first glance it’s easy to look at LinkedIn and feel a bit bored with the interface and maybe the content but don’t worry, before you know it you will love LinkedIn as [...]

How to link your Facebook and Twitter accounts

It might suit you to put the same content on both your Facebook and Twitter feeds, it’s worth trying it out, but consider you want to reach different audiences with each site or if you need to take a different tone on each (for example you might want your Facebook entries to be more personal [...]

How do I set up social media to establish an online presence for my business?

Here are a few simple tips to get your online presence established using the wonderful and free resource of social media Why use Social Media? Develop relationship with your customers Makes it easy to deal with any queries or problems directly with your customer Build brand loyalty Facebook: over half a billion users Twitter: 175 [...]