by Jo Dodds Admin on 2012-05-15
Do you know what Facebook Edgerank is all about? Most people I speak to don’t and are really suprised to find out how much it affects your visibility on Facebook.
Basically, it’s an algorthim designed to determine whether your status updates appear in your friends’ News Feeds or in your ‘fans’ (I know they’re not called [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2012-04-14
I found this great Slideshare presentation showing Facebook Timeline Covers and I thought I’d share it with you. Some of them are so clever.
I particularly like Slide 4 with the girl in the washing machine! And no 7 is very funny.
If you like Slide 8 – the pinboard – you can download an image that [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2012-03-19
I guess you will have heard about the new Facebook Timeline for Business Pages that is hitting Facebook at the end of this month. That may be presumptuous of me given that I follow all things social media and you may not, but it seems that everywhere I turn there is another blog post on [...]
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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?
For more information about how to use Twitter to market your business, download our free Twitter Marketing report ‘How to Twitter Effectively’
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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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Just so you know, I'm feeling so different now I have a 'web presence', so much more 'official' - very much thanks to you.