by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-08-12
This is the trailer for the film coming out in October about how Facebook came about. It’s a bit slow to get going but once it kicks in it looks really compelling. I was wondering whether it would seem more (boring?) documentary than Hollywood blockbuster, but I was pleasantly surprised and I will be looking [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-07-09
Do you like being pitched to all the time? How do you feel about people coming to your door asking you to buy stuff or give money to charity? What do you think of your neighbor who talks about how great he is all the time? If you are like most people, you are [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-07-05
I was at a 4th July party yesterday with our daughter’s best friend from school whose father is in the army. Co-incidently their army ‘patch’ (where they live) is also where the daughter of Bill Shaw MBE lives with her family. It was an emotion filled party as Bill Shaw was acquitted yesterday morning by [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-06-11
I recorded you a video about two mistakes that small business owners make all the time when setting up their social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.
What do you think?
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-01-22
I’m speaking at a couple of events this month about using social media like Facebook and Twitter to promote your local business, so I thought it might be useful to post a few statistics and useful hints and tips for you. As I’ve just spent some time developing our Facebook Fan Page, I thought we’d [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-08-26
More and more local business people are asking us about Twitter and whether it is worth them getting involved with it from a local marketing perspective; at the same time more and more local businesses are starting to use it and getting some great exposure for their business.
My answer is generally something along the lines [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-08-03
In an article in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, Vincent Nichols – Archbishop of Westminster, was quoted as saying that “the internet and mobile phones were “dehumanising” community life”.
I would like to disagree. I, of course, am a regular user of Facebook and other social networking media like Twitter and [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-06-15
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What is a ‘vanity url’ you might ask?! It is an opportunuity to have your name or some other clearer indicator of your public profile on Facebook. Up to now to give someone a direct link to your Facebook profile has involved some convoluted typing, lots of numbers and a very good [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-05-28
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Many people are now using Facebook but I would guess that there aren’t many small business owners that realise how useful it can be for marketing their local business on the internet.
These are some of the statistics on the Facebook website to give you some idea of how popular the site is:
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