I am just putting the finishing touches to the information I will sharing at the Ask the Expert event at Farnham Castle this evening. This event is organised by Enterprise First and it is aimed at helping businesses – both start-ups and established to access advice and expertise about certain key business areas. I will Continue Reading

  Whilst I am a very firm believer in the power of using Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook to promote and build your brand, reputation and customer relationships, it is really important to blog as well. In fact, the glory of your own blog is that you control it. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and others are all Continue Reading

I’ve recently been thinking about what I was very busy doing this time last year and comparing it to some of the things I’m currently working on. Last May I had just returned from a fascinating trip to Nigeria as part of my work as a Communications Consultant for the PATHS2 health project which is Continue Reading

I still get amazed when I have the same conversation over and over again with people about their websites and discover that they have just paid for a new site but that it doesn’t use WordPress. Instead they have an often good looking site but with no RSS feed capability and usually a ‘bespoke’ CMS Continue Reading

  It’s good to finally be getting back into the swing of things now that our many Bank Holidays are over – no more Easter, Royal Wedding or May Bank Holidays – well until the end of the month anyway! Before Easter there were a number of ‘social media is plateauing’ articles and commentaries being Continue Reading

    Despite the huge number of bank holidays we have just experienced here in the UK we have managed to launch a website for Apex SLM. Apex SLM is a company that is focused on revolutionising the way things are done in sports and leisure within the UK in terms of developing real, high-value Continue Reading

The more I learn about Social Media and the more I train others about Social Media, the more I realise how few businesses and individuals really think about and understand why they need it and how they should use it. And this is evident in either how they use it or if they don’t use Continue Reading

Yesterday I blogged about a debate taking place on whether social media has plateaued in terms of usage and this morning I have found another article on Mashable stating the same thing. Whilst this seems to be based on actual stats rather than the lack of ground-breaking technology at SXSW I still personally don’t think Continue Reading

I have just finished reading a fantastic blog by Liri Andersson in response to a piece published on Mashable recently. Her blog, titled ‘How naive to think social media has hit a plateau‘ succinctly describes how social media is still in its infancy and has a long way to go before there is a chance Continue Reading