This is quite apt, considering my last post about doing fewer things well… I’m giving up on Twitter.
Continue Reading →What Your Social Media Profile May Be Saying
Twitter is full of social media experts, most of whom I actually think spend so much time in social media land that they don’t actually make any money unless they are selling “how to be a social media guru” to the next gullible person who doesn’t get it. You know the type. They are following [...]
Continue Reading →The Growing Social Nature Of News
On Friday night there was a big fire in Basingstoke as the large wooden frame of a construction site in Brighton Hill went up in flames. It was reported to have started at around 6.20pm. I found at at 7.15pm…via Facebook. Before long, many of my Basingstoke friends had mentioned it in their feeds and Twitter [...]
Continue Reading →Social Talk Is Just As Cheap
It’s easy to talk online . You set up your free social account and start talking about stuff. The disaffected with nothing to lose antagonize the people with authority. It’s been that way for hundreds of years and now it’s just in digital format with larger potential audiences. But, who cares about our opinions unless we have authority? I [...]
Continue Reading →The fickle nature of fans, friends and followers
Got loads of followers on Twitter you like to boast about? How about friends or Facebook or Fans to your Facebook page? As much as I can see the value of these tools, I also question the fickle nature and intention of the people who do the following in the instant switch on-off sphere of [...]
Continue Reading →Facebook advertising discrepancies
I honestly think there are opportunities on Facebook for advertising at the moment, but I have a very big but. Firstly, I have to say, I am successfully running two pages on Facebook, with adverts to drive traffic. I’ve spent about £50 over three weeks driving fans to my pages for two beauty salons – [...]
Continue Reading →Using social media in the property industry
Today I have been on a whistle-stop trip to Paris to attend the ULI Europe Annual Conference, sitting on the social media panel discussing how the property industry could be leveraging the platforms available. There was also the small case of a new Escape-built website launched for ULI (ULI Exchange). Considering it was a break-out [...]
Continue Reading →Facebook maturing and Twitter…
Facebook seems to be maturing and growing… but they must maximise revenue generation. That said, they are currently making money, they just need to make more. Twitter, the jury’s out for me. Don’t see the long term engagement there, or how they will make [enough] money. A quick look at Compete shows the gulf is [...]
Continue Reading →Social media lambs and old fashioned salesmanship
I am a big supporter of social media – don’t believe if I say I’m not. But right now, I can’t help thinking that brands, businesses and people like me have made it a cesspool of inane drivelling shit. Some Blogs are still relevant (as are some Tweeters), but it’s becoming a revolving roundabout of [...]
Continue Reading →The Beginning Of The End For Twitter?
A lot of negative stuff has been attributed to Twitter this week. Stephen Fry threatened to quit the platform after being called boring, Danyl on X Factor got likened to Hitler and, on a personal note, someone sent me a direct message asking me to Retweet something and saw their arse when I didn’t. And [...]
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