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Social Media Talk

Posted by Keith on Jan 18, 2012 in Events, Social News | 6 comments

First off thanks to everyone who made it today I hope that you all had a great time and got a lot out of it?

As I said throughout the talk I would finish off the post with some of the key points we discussed.

So here we go, no particular order, just as I remember them:

• Remember if you don’t try social media you will never know if it will work for your business or not?
• If your behind the sofa or reading this through your fingers, don’t worry a black van won’t appear outside your house and drag you off for putting an update on Twitter
• Don’t be afraid of negative comments, use them to make you and your business better, more efficient and ultimately stronger. They are out there so you might as well respond if you can

Is Social Media making us lazy?

Posted by Keith on Jun 27, 2011 in Social News | 0 comments

I first thought about this a few months ago when trawling through my many accounts on Tweetdeck, I love Hootsuite for the scheduler but Tweetdeck still gets my vote.

Anyway I was thinking that maybe we are becoming too reliant on social media to get introductions and find people in the big wide world who can help spread the word about our business and we can reciprocate with.

Now I know the chances of me hopping on a plane to the USA to network with a bunch of guys I have never met is remote, unless someone out there wants to pay for that to happen, but let’s face it how many of us make excuses not to travel say fifty miles to meet new people and try to expand our network of business associates by actually meeting them?

I know, it’s more than you would think, but sometimes it’s nice to get out and meet different people and exchange ideas over a coffee so that’s what I intend to do, get out and meet more people. I hope you do to and if you do can you let us all know how you get on?

photo credit: Stevie-B