Social media use continues to grow rapidly…

The worldwide use of social media continues to grow like a snowball accelerating down a hill – increasing in size and speed!

The industry watchers at eConsultancy have just posted a comparison of social media stats for 2011 compared to 2010, and the jump is stunning.

Here are a few of the highlights:-

1. LinkedIn

Worldwide – grown from 50m [...]

How to Monitor your Social Media by Email

For many people, the biggest challenge of the social media is picking up the important items and responding, while  avoiding drowning in the tsunami of posts, comments and tweets occurring.

There are a number of dashboard applications, such as Hoot Suite and Seesmic, that will pull together information from your social media networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook [...]

Facebook Pages – Updated Layout launched

Following the recent ‘upgrade’ of the personal profile pages, Facebook has now announced an upgrade of the layout and functionality of Facebook Pages.

And most of it is ‘good news’ for the business owners of those pages!

To quote Facebook’s recent email to admins:

Facebook pages are getting an updated layout and several new features to help you engage [...]

Why is everyone ignoring me on Facebook?

Do you get the impression that half your circle of friends are no longer communication with you on Facebook? Do you just see updates and photos from a small group of friends and everyone else is ignoring you? Are you the ‘billy-no-mates’ of Facebook?

Firstly, don’t worry, its 99% certain nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem [...]

How to make Twitter sell – a case study

One of the most common questions I’m asked is how do I make Twitter work for my business , generating leads and sales.

One technique is to search for the demand and then bring that opportunity into the existing sales and marketing processes.

A recent post on the Econsultancy blog reviewed a case study from Avaya, who provide [...]