Facebook timeline has landed for businesses

06Mar12

You may already have been grappling with the Facebook timeline on your personal page for sometime.  Every one has an opinion on it – some love it, some hate it.  Personally, I love the concept of being able to see the different life events on your friends wall and scroll down through old conversations, but [...]

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Don’t Hide Behind Your Digital Voice

30Jan12

A recent study has found that many people regret the things that they post on social network sites: “Internet users were warned over the dangers of pressing the “send” button in haste as research suggested that millions of people have posted comments and messages online which they later wished they had not.” (Source: Daily Telegraph) [...]

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Neighbour Networking – the Next Big Thing in the UK?

20Dec11

With the New Year just around the corner everyone is wondering what the 2012 digital media trends will be, and one possible answer is the expansion of  neighbour networking sites in the UK. Websites like Nextdoor.com, EveryBlock.com and HeyNeighbor.com already exist the in UK to enable neighbours the opportunity to network online: ‘There are so [...]

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Engaging in the conversation, without having to make a lengthy speech; the beauty of Tumblr

30Nov11

I have regularly extolled the virtues of blogging for business; particularly as an individual blogging to build up a profile for yourself as an expert within your field.  But blogging is daunting for many because of the time required to research, write, edit and manage a blog. There is one particular blogging platform that makes [...]

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President Obama starts another election campaign with social media…

25Oct11

…and this time the chosen outlet (or at least one of them) isTumblr – a blogging platform (or ‘tumblelog’) that allows users to post images, text, video, quotes and links. But why Tumblr?  Well the great thing about Tumblr is its submission feature, which allows anyone on the web contribute to your blog – the [...]

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New ways to tweetify your way to Employment Success

21Sep11

Andrew Robson, who is currently completing an internship with us here at Twelve PR, talks about the benefits of social media for recruitment purposes: The UKis growing ever more connected with 77% of homes now having internet access and 27% of adults able to access internet on the move through their smartphone. Indeed the average [...]

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Changes are afoot in the Digital World …

16Sep11

There have been lots of changes afoot with our most loved social networks recently so here is a quick summary of some of these, and how they might affect you as a user: Facebook Facebook seems to be developing at a rate of knots at the moment, with several changes occurring, some more significant than [...]

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The New Kid on the Block – Getting to Grips with Google Plus

18Jul11

Just when we start to feel like we have got to grips with all that social media has to offer, with our twitter accounts, our Facebook profiles and pages, our LinkedIn profiles and groups, our personal and business blogs on WordPress and tumblr, our inspiration gathered on Pinterest etc. etc.; there’s a new kid on [...]

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What Facebook Real-Time Could Mean for Businesses

10Jun11

  According to digital bible that is Mashable Facebook is currently trialling a real-time ‘what is happening now’ feed in the right-hand panel of the Facebook homepage:   (source: Dazeinfo via Mashable) Although the current news feed allows users to see their friends status updates, posts on mutual friends walls, events friends are planning to [...]

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Facebook changes promotion guidelines

27May11

The news that Facebook has now changed its promotions guidelines to say that the ‘like’ function can not be used for voting in promotions might be a bit of a blow for some digital marketers that have relied on this for their Facebook campaigns…but hopefully it will force us to use the platform more creatively [...]

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