This one day course introduces techniques to help you develop your online social media presence and enhance your online marketing efficiency. It is a hands-on course with many practical exercises which you will carry out with your social media accounts. The course uses many free tools available from the World Wide Web. By the end [...]
For a while now I have been using the online influence ratings site Klout. For those who have not heard of this before it basically uses a range of algorithms on different social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Foursquare, Quora and more to estimate your influence and reach on the web. As more and [...]
About a week ago I received an invitation to Google+ from one of my students (Thanks Haydn). When I followed the link I was disappointed to find that Google were no longer accepting new users, even with invitations. I have experienced this exclusivity idea before with the launch of Google Wave, however I still do not understand [...]
The mass adoption of smart phones such as the iPhone and android based phones like the Samsung Galaxy S are providing people with instant access to information and social networking from any location.
There seems to be lots happening with Twitter at the moment, the recent OAUTH changes resulted in lots of people telling me they had problems with twitter applications on their phones (in particular the iphone) and today I logged on to the main twitter.com website to find a massive change is happening to the user [...]
