How I Discovered I Have a Local LinkedIn Network of Over a Quarter of a Million Speaking to groups in my part of the world over recent months I have found there are a lot of business professionals who know about LinkedIn and may even have a profile of sorts there but are not convinced…
Today, as part of my current course with the Social Media Academy, I’ve been working an exercise to develop a concept and framework for a consultancy business in the field of social media. In line with how the assignment was set, the first thing I did was to endeavor to define the problem my business…
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…
This post about Twitter is the first on a specific social media platform promised in my Social Media Tune Up post last month. Different Twitter users have different reasons for being on Twitter and different ways of behaving there. Why I am there and how I use Twitter may be quite different from why you…
Why smart business owners cut through the noise and get the Twitter business case I’ve been thinking about the comment I heard yesterday morning from an otherwise quite smart presenter on morning television, to the effect that everyone who goes on Twitter gets addicted to it and that’s why she is not on it. I…
Next week, on September 29, I’m teaming up with Associate Professor Michael Rees of Bond University to deliver a one day workshop for businesses in the Brisbane (Australia) area on social media. Then the following week, on October 2, we do that again on the Gold Coast. (Update: Brisbane workshop now postponed to a date…