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LinkedIn launches a new mobile phone app
I’ve had a LinkedIn app on my phone for a while now, but it wasn’t particularly useful. It really didn’t do very much and was quite inferior in comparison with apps for other social media networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And so I quickly moved it off the main screen of my HTC and […]
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101 ways to promote your business for free
There’s a thread on My Local Forums that links to an article that lists 100 ways to promote your personal brand for free. (It says “personal brand”, but it applies just as well to businesses). Subsequent posts on the thread noted that some of the items were quite tenuous and it seemed they had stretched […]
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Can you write your elevator pitch in 140 characters?
On one of the Chartered Institute of Marketing groups I belong to on LinkedIn, there was a discussion started about how attention spans have decreased and how you no longer have twenty floors in which to explain what your business does, but just two. This of course led onto how much information is out there, […]
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Social media: are you a newbie or an early adopter?
With the recent launch of Google+ (and no, I don’t have an invite; somebody send me one please!), I have been musing to myself about which social media I have been using the longest. I think my first foray into the social web came when I joined Friends Reunited, some time in 2000. It was […]