Having launched last week my twelve month free Social Media Roadmap Webinars 2011 program, not without a few technical hitches on the day but launched nevertheless, I turned my mind and energies to setting up a community site for participants in the series. In this post I explain how and why I chose BuddyPress and…
I don’t know if this is an ideal time to launch my long thought-about series of free, monthly webinars on social media. But I believe it’s a good time. (Note: a week after this post was written, a trademark was issued for the words “Social Media Roadmap” and this was drawn to my attention in…
In my update last week on the Social Media Tune Up series, I promised another in the sub-series on Twitter, to look at hashtags (#) and lists. Hashtags and lists are features of using Twitter which help explain to the interested enquirer why there is far more to Twitter and Twitterville than people sharing breakfast…
Last year I started a project I thought would be fairly straightforward, a social media tune up. It proved to be a more challenging task than I’d envisaged. The intention was to go systematically through my main platform-basedsocial media presences, with the aim of refining and generally improving what was there. Although I thought the…
One event I would really love to get to some time is Le Web, held in Paris, France of course, on Dec 8-9. It claims, and justifiably as far as I know, to be the #1 Internet event in Europe. With 2500 or so participants and an array of Web business leaders as speakers, it…
Would you connect with someone on LinkedIn who does not want to speak with you? If it weren’t for my own experience over several years, I probably would not think that was a question worth asking. But consider this. LinkedIn is a professional business networking platform. It is not and never has been intended as…