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Social media network managerFor many businesses, social media brings clear benefit, but is it always useful in business?

Here we give you our views, opnions, experience and tips around making the best use of social media in a business context.

We also look at what social media for business actually covers, the common channels that most people will have heard of - Twitter, facebook, Linkedin, YouTube - as well as some of the more recent or less mainstream channels.

Tool for automating management of Twitter lists
Managing long Twitter lists can be a pain, especially when you need to manually check who is or is not a member of a particular list. @JuliaBramble, a social media manager, menti...
13 Jun 2011
Tracking social media metrics for web pages
You can track social metrics (the number of likes, shares, tweets etc.) for your web pages by looking at the individual services (e.g. Facebook for example offers 'insights'). If...
26 May 2011
Benefits of social media in public relations
Over the past five years a growing number of social media sites have sprung up, suggesting people are interested in sharing their experiences and linking with new found friends. Bu...
13 Jan 2011
Twitter is a one way street (mostly)
Sysomos has done some interesting research based on two months of analysing twitter. It seems that only 29% of tweets get a reaction and very few tweets (6%) are re-tweeted. ...
05 Dec 2010
Social media help from a technology PR agency
Loving all things Social media, I attended a Social media workshop run by the National Business to Business Centre, an organisation which helps West Midlands SMEs benefit from e-bu...
04 Dec 2010
I need a blog but don't have time to write it
The MD of a small technology company told me that he wants and needs to blog (he'd heard that it's a good way to bring visitors to his website, show his thought leadersh...
26 Nov 2010
Results are in: Social media experiment or stalking - it works!
Well done Ben Hanlin you did it. Michael McIntyre was the name pulled from the hat and Ben found using social media and performed a magic trick for him. Ben's connections o...
04 Nov 2010
Social media experiment or stalking?
Can you use social media to find anyone? Now, here's an interesting idea: bet your mate £50 that you can use social media to find a celeb and then (in this case) p...
26 Oct 2010
Be careful what you tweet
As more people join and monitor what's being said on Twitter, I found an article by Oliver Marks from ZDNet on the famous Fedex Twitter/Email Exchange. Basically an agency emplo...
10 Feb 2010
New social media guidelines from CIPR
The CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) has come together with some PR bloggers and updated their social media guidelines. These provide best practice advice and raise ...
23 Apr 2009
Mastering Twitter
Yesterday's Social media event was attended by around 120 people at Aston Science Park. However, only half of them were on Twitter. I got an e-newsletter today with a guide ...
17 Apr 2009
Birmingham Social Media Cafe this Friday
The next meetup will be on Friday February 27th at 10am at The Coffee Lounge at 10/11 Navigation Street, Birmingham. I've been going to a few of these and it's great to ...
22 Feb 2009
US bloggers disclosure tool – cmp.ly
US bloggers are going to need to disclose where they get their info from in the new year. DigComm. just launched Cmp.ly - http://cmp.ly - which addresses the new blogger dis...
01 Feb 2009
Social media event in Birmingham
Aston Science Park is holding a very useful sounding event on how social media is becoming a must for business success. It’s on 4 Feb and the organisers have let me know t...
26 Jan 2009

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