Year: 2010

Google has just launched a huge improvement to its blog search section Previously if you ran a search for a topic it would bring back posts back with your search term in the title This was useful but it was almost frustrating that you couldn’t...

As I sure many of you know I am the social media coordinator for the CIPR in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region As a regional committee we get involved in organising lots of corporate events and training but on the whole we don’t organise many...

The Everton Footballer Mikel Arteta (of Spanish nationality) is now eligible for a British passport (and so he can commit to any British team of his choosing) because he has been a resident in the UK for five-and-a-half years He was signed by...

Facebook has announced today that due to popular demand it is adding a new button/feature to Facebook pages Traditionally, users were asked to become fans of a page but that was changed a few months back Facebook users are now asked to like a...

Unless you have been hidden under a rock for the last twelve months you must have heard about Foursquare which has been the latest geo-location craze to hit social media in 2010 Basically the premise is you have to travel around checking in to...

In December 2009 Facebook made a few adjustments to its formal policy on competitions and promotions which you no doubt will have heard about The net result was that promotions on Facebook can’t hold: Photo contests which require profile photo...

For the last nine months I have been working on creating a Twitter management application that added value to the Twitter experience The application, called Tweasier, is currently in beta testing and has several hundred people using it on a daily...

I have written various posts on here before about identifying influential sites but I thought it was worth posting today because I have found a tool to use to make this process a whole load quicker The Google Chrome SEO plug-in takes all of two...

I have been really busy recently, with this launch and that, but in my spare time I have been reading quite a lot on the ROI of social media and scratching my head As more and more of these amazing buzz monitoring tools spring up out of the woodwork...

As many of you know for the last six months or so I have been really busy working in online public relations both freelancing for my own clients and working as a digital consultant for the lovely people at Lucre Communications in Leeds To be honest...