How to get started with a blog
A blog needs to be at the heart of your social media strategy, providing an interface between the website and social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. There’s another ‘Let’s get blogging’ workshop planned for Thursday 8th March in Northampton. In 2 hours you can be set up and posting your message to the world. To find out more details about the ’Let’s get blogging workshop’ and to book at place, visit the Events page. Hope to see you there. Other posts on blogging and social media you may find of interest. 10 tips to get you started...
read moreGoogle+ video tutorial – adding people to circles
Having worked with several screencast video software options I’m now launching the first of a series of Website Wings video social media and blogging tutorials. This one takes over from the Google+ set-up tutorial featured elsewhere on this site. You’ll need to have set up a Google+ account to get the most our of this short tutorial. Subscribe to Website Wings by leaving your email address in the box on the right and you’ll receive notification of all future tutorials as they’re published. Don’t forget to make social signals by liking/sharing this content....
read moreWhy businesses need a social media policy
Why do businesses need a social media policy? Many companies don’t welcome the thought, let alone the time required to action one. In my opinion a social media policy should be viewed on an equal footing as the importance of the company health and safety policy. Both can seem over detailed until something goes wrong and blame rushes through the door, followed closely by bad publicity at best and litigation at worst. The use of social media by businesses is set to grow by a huge amount in 2012 as more and more companies experiment with its use for both marketing and communication with...
read more‘To blog or not to blog’ – Workshop at Icon Centre, Daventry
Yesterday, at the Daventry Icon Centre, I ran a 2 hour workshop for the Federation of Small Businesses aimed at helping delegates decide whether starting a blog would prove beneficial to their business. Pitching the content at the right level is always a challenge, especially when you know nothing about your audience in advance of the workshop. However, I think the smiling faces at the end gave some indication I’d got it about right. We covered a short history of the blog, mechanics and benefits of blogging for business, how website, blog and other social media channels work...
read moreLet’s get blogging
Back at the Corby Enterprise Centre again last week running a Website Wings blogging course, designed to get delegates up and running with a WordPress blog in 2 hours. We were all so engrossed with getting delegate’s blogs set up and running that I forgot to take a photo during the course. Liz and Krys carried on afterwards though, allowing me to snap this photo. Next 2 hour course will be on Thursday 9th March in Northampton. For full details about what’s involved and link for booking a place, visit the Events page. Share...
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