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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 Becoming Boring?

Posted by Keith on Sep 13, 2011 in Social News, Tribes | 3 comments

I read an interesting article last night that got me thinking, Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

I look through my Twitter lists on TweetDeck and realised that the bulk of them are on how women of a certain age prefer Twitter to Facebook and others that tell me the latest must have stats from over the pond and I have come to the conclusion WHO CARES?

I joined my social networks to connect with people who have interesting things to say and share knowledge with each other not to have a constant stream of useless information and statistics chucked at me.

If Cameron tweeted what he proposes for the health service now that would be a conversation worth following, but will it happen, I doubt it?

So I have come to the conclusion that if I get this stream of drivel for much longer I will unfollow the culprits, I don’t care if I have a dozen people following me or me following them at least they will be my Tribe, I will want to listen to them and them to me.

I want stuff that is interesting not that someone in India has a bigger chance of using Social Media than someone in Bolivia…I really don’t care.

Let me know what you think I would be really interested to find out if you find this as boring as I do?

If I get enough response I will add it into my keynote stalk at Social Media week in Glasgow on the 23^rd September.

photo credit: Joshme17

Is Social Media making us lazy?

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

Lazy Keith 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

What’s so different?

Posted by Keith on Mar 30, 2010 in Social News | 0 comments

Whats so different? I was thinking this morning how much I use social marketing on a daily basis now compared to say a year ago, my site now reflects this, so what’s so different now to a year ago?
Well now it such a part of our lives, especially those of us who use the Internet for our living and I also thought who else uses it to great advantage? Looking through the guys I follow there are the obvious ones Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin to name but a few. These are a given for anyone who uses SM but what about closer to home?
I searched my lists on Tweetdeck and names kept popping up regularly

Now this is just a shortlist to illustrate my point and all these guys are based within Cumbria, twelve months ago they might not have even thought about using SM to market their businesses, I apologise to you all if this is not the case, but I think it’s great that all these businesses are now utilising all SM platforms to market their businesses. Plus they send out lots of relevant and good quality tweets