Social collaboration is becoming increasingly important within organisations and it’s easy to see why. Research outlined in this infographic demonstrates how collaborative software can significantly improve team efficiency. According to a recent survey, online collaboration tools will play an important role in 75% of businesses by 2013. As we are already accustomed to social networking with friends, [...]
Our Social Times, in partnership with Constant Contact, have recently been running a series of Social Media Marketing for Small Business seminars, we’ve seen a lot of great advice come out of the events so we’ve compiled a tips post to help everyone out there. Social Media is great if you are an SME, it [...]
At Our Social Times‘ latest free seminar in Manchester yesterday Pinterest, the fast-emerging ‘share-your-favourite-pictures’ social network, provided the biggest gasp of the day. Tammy Kahn Fennel (CEO of MarketMeSuite) was giving an impressive master-class on how to generate leads on Twitter, then turned her attention to Pinning. She started by talking us through her own research, [...]
As part of the launch of Constant Contact in the UK, Our Social Times is teaming up with the US-based social media marketing company to run a series of 6 free seminars. Between March and June 2012 we’ll be hosting Social Media Marketing for Small Business in London (x 2), Chelmsford, Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham. [...]
My friends at Constant Contact recently published a report on small business usage of social media, taken from a survey of 2000 SMEs. I’ve had a look through now and the results are actually pretty amazing. It seems SMEs are adopting social media at an extremely rapid rate. You can read their headline findings below, with [...]






