Earlier this year I was told "off the record" by an events company manager that she was simply adding the words "social media" to her events in order to sell the tickets. I guess, if it works... But the sad fact is, I've attended several social media events in the pas...
May. 20, 2010
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Here's a list of 8 free (or very cheap) social media monitoring tools we've tried out in the last few weeks. They are all pretty light-touc...
Feb. 28, 2010
While Twitter is reputedly growing at 700% per annum and hitting the headlines, it's sometimes easy to get carried away with it's significance. Obviously, if you're a daily Twitterer who's plugged in to several active networks and using TweetDeck (or a similar tool) as ...
Jan. 25, 2010
Following a tip-off from webmetricsguru (Marshall Sponder), I've been trying out Tweepsearch as a method of finding influencers in various vertical industry niches. He suggested that Tweepsearch's results combined with an Excel spreadsheet are the most effective free me...
Jan. 06, 2010
Finally, ten years after I first began building "online communities", five years after MySpace took the world by storm, four since Facebook stole their social networking crown and 18 months after Twitter went mainstream - publishers are starting to take social media ser...
Dec. 27, 2009
Founded by Luke Brynley-Jones, one of the UK's most experienced social media consultants, Our Social Times is a popular social media marketing blog. We also run high quality social media conferences, courses and workshops in the UK, US and Europe. Read More
