Year: 2011

In recent weeks, I have been receiving an increasing amount of Linked-in connection requests and it has got me thinking Now firstly I should point out I have a love hate relationship with Linked-in, some things I love about it and some things I hate...

Last Thursday, I spent the evening presenting on social media in the finance sector to a room of delegates at Grant Thornton When I present I prefer to use real life case studies of work that I have completed myself with my teams However, when I...

If you follow me on Twitter, you will have no doubt been seeing my recent tweets about the charity pub quiz I organise for the regional committee of the CIPR I hate plugging things too much but the pub quiz was to raise money for a charitable cause...

Sorry about this but I need to have a quick rant I have been working in PR for more than a decade and using social media for around five years and the shift I have seen in the understanding levels of social media marketing has been great as the...

Last year, you might remember I started a charity pub quiz in the name of a former journalist and friend of mine called Nigel Scott who died a while back The event thankfully was a huge success and great fun In fact, it was so popular it sold out in...

With all the hype during the last six or seven years around the explosion of social networking you could be led to believe that social media influencers drive everything and are going to take over the world now You may also have been convinced that...

So I have been  out of the country for a few days in Berlin with one of my clients that manufactures headphones We were attending IFA2011 which is the biggest consumer electronics show in the world, and as a massive tech/gadget geek I was in my...

If you are like me I imagine you have read quite a few posts before that give the usual advice about writing interesting and engaging content Well I didn’t want to write something completely about the theory because I am always covering that type...

I don't normally post about day's out but I thought this was worth a quick mention Yesterday, my wife and I wanted to take my little boy for a day out and we decided on the York Maze I don’t know what I expected but I was pleasantly surprised The...

Are you busy tomorrow If not, you might want to make your way over to the Adelphi on Hunslet Road as I am speaking at a free seminar on the benefits of using social media for business It’s the second of four seminars to be held by the organisers...