Category Social Media

Social Media is a Brand Killer

With only 6% of companies ready to engage with customers on a regular basis and 82% of consumers actively wanting to engage with brands, the recent Alterian survey revealed a huge disconnect between businesses and consumers. Social media reports may…

SMX 2011: Social Signals & Search

A particular current obsession of mine and a topic on which I have about three gigs in the next month, so really hoping for some interesting thinking on this subject. Panellists are; Bas van den Beld of State of Search,…

Social Media World Forum – Keynote

With the noted exception of SES London 2010, (power points, tables and vaguely passable WiFi) every conference is the same. No power and no wireless. I’m sitting next to Kristofer Bjorkman, Founder of mynewsdesk. Kristopher managed to get onto the…

Yet Another Use for Social Media

Apparently the Facebook group “1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert” is the fastest-growing Facebook ever (if you believe the hype, and I’m gullible so yes, I do.) This is only slightly more impressive than the SEO Chicks Facebook group reaching…

The Chicks Get All Social

SEO Chicks has a facebook app! Yes, thats right, you can get all the latest and greatest SEO chick action direct to your facebook page. You know you want to, so add to your facebook profile and be the…

Social Media: A Glorious Timewaster?

After I actually spent a decent amount of time searching for people to add to my dinky collection of friends on Facebook the other night, and I only mean dinky in terms of the sheer poor little number, not the…

Twitter Etiquette

In case you are living under a rock…. Twitter is just another one of those social platforms that you didn’t want to grow attached to but knew you would. It has become unavoidable at this point. If you don’t tweet,…