Social Media Means Engagement

I was interested to read recently that my local Council officers had recommended the Council make use of Facebook and Twitter. Great idea, until I read that councillors wanted to ensure no one could comment on the posts and the communications officer assured them they’d be used only to direct users to the Council’s website. [...]

Be Mindful of Your Brand

It’s not often you get to meet someone who’s Googled you! But I did… yesterday and of all places at a school graduation. Still not 100% clear how it happened but apparently he was looking for my husband, knew I ran a business and ‘vaguely’ what it was about and voila! Actually, I just tried [...]

VAs Helping Clients with Social Networking

Since my previous post on how VAs can help clients with social networking like Twitter, there has been a lot of discussion on industry lists about whether VAs SHOULD provide this kind of support – or whether it defeats the purpose of the networking aspect of these sites. There is no doubt a VA can [...]

Do You Tweet? Twitter Observations

If you don’t understand what that title means, the answer is probably no! It seems that what started out as something a CNN journalist inaccurately described as “a place where teenagers were posting what they were doing throughout the day, from the cereal they were eating to the movies they were watching”, Twitter has grown [...]