How to Control Who Sees What in Your Facebook Profile
If you use Facebook for a mixture of business and pleasure; then you’re best controlling who sees what on your profile if you don’t want to embarrass yourself or lose credibility with your clients and business associates. But how do you go about it?
I’ve been on Facebook, the omnipotent social networking site for [...]
Groan! Not Another Social Networking Site Please!
The use of social networking sites in business has really taken a grip over the last couple of years, but surely enough is enough now!
Facebook, MySpace, Bebo plus many others have enjoyed phenomenal growth over the last 5 years, This is well documented with the young upstart Twitter outpacing many over the last 12 months.
Their [...]
Use Hootsuite to Set Your Twitter Tweets as Your LinkedIn Status
Back in July I posted a “How to” article which walked you through the steps needed to update your LinkedIn status with your Twitter Tweets.
The article has proven to be one of the most popular ones on my blog judging by the stats in Google Analytics and as a post; ranks well in Google for [...]
Cold Calling via LinkedIn. It’s Not Big and it’s Not Clever!
I’ve been on LinkedIn, the social networking website for professionals and business folk; for about 3 years now, but it’s only recently in the last 12 months or so that I’ve begun to pay any attention to it and have started to put some real effort into it as a networking tool.
To be fair my [...]
Facebook Groups. What’s the Point?
I’m a great advocate of free speech and am a big fan of any platform such as a the Internet or a particular website that facilitates it, but come on! Facebook groups?
For the uninitiated, Facebook – the number one social networking site with over 260 million account holders worldwide; gives anyone the ability who has [...]
Which Social Networking Site Do You Use for Your Business?
Real-world business networking groups have been around for several years. The more traditional ones such as the Chambers of Commerce and Trade, the FSB and Rotary Clubs to name but a few; have traditionally dominated the scene here in the UK and were a lot more subtle in their approach to generating business for their [...]
Smashing Up Guitars Damages Your Brand
Is your brand name and reputation important to your business?
If so, protect it well because social media gives your unhappy customers the ideal platform to air their grievances and if they know what their doing, you’ve potentially got a big PR problem on your hands.
What I’m referring to is an excellent story that’s doing the [...]
Personalized FaceBook URLs – Who Really Cares?
If, like 200 million other people on the planet, you’ve got a Facebook account then you’ll no doubt be aware that the social networking site rolled-out its personalized account Usernames last Saturday morning.
This move was announced on their blog earlier this month and seems to have generated quite a bit of controversy.
If you don’t have [...]
Sign-up to Facebook with your OpenID or Gmail login
Facebook has 200 million subscribers which despite it being the number one social networking site on the planet, means it still has a fair chunk of the human race to go.
So to make the task easier for people, Facebook has embraced the OpenID concept which means people that have other login details that are acceptable [...]
Let’s Connect? Thanks, But No Thanks!
I’m pretty active on a number of social networking sites including, Twitter and Facebook. However it was a rejection on LinkedIn that really felt like a kick in the teeth.
As I go about my daily activities I meet many different types of business owners. Some of these are associates that I work with regularly, some [...]
