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Want to Send your Tweets to your Facebook Page? Here’s how.
Managing our social networks has crept into the time management of our days. It can be a little tiresome working out where to post what. These issues will grow as our reliance and involvement in the social web increases. If you have a Facebook Page and a Twitter account, you may want to update both at the same time. One way is to use a content management system like Hootsuite but a simpler way would be to post your tweets to your Facebook Page automatically. Many are already doing this to their personal Facebook profile but how do you post to … Continue reading
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Want to Write a Personal Blog? This is how you set it up
Someone once commented that it is blogs that are causing the internet to grow. This is probably true with well over 200 million blogs in the world and growing all the time. Blogging is one of the best ways to build a personal or business brand. There are many reasons to blog. The evolution of business and technology is making writers of us all. Everyone has something to say and everyone has something to contribute. You will be amazed to find that there are people in the world who share interests with you and would love to read what you … Continue reading
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How the Age of Communication Killed the Utopian Dream
The beginning of the 21st century will come to be regarded as the start of the communication revolution. This follows the industrial revolution from 1750-1950 and the technological revolution from 1950-2000 Each of these periods changed human development and each built on the progress of the one before. It is ironic that the result of technological innovation was a revolution in communication since the industrial revolution inculcated a perception that individuals were merely cogs in the great machine of industry. This was reflected in the myriad sci-fi movies which most often depicted the future as a sort of utopian paradise … Continue reading
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Should your CEO have a Social Media Strategy?
This article on a personal social media strategy was a lightbulb moment. It is accepted that social media plays an important role in personal brand building. Critical when you are building your own business or if you are likely to be in the job market. An issue that has not come to view, particularly in the early and slightly behind the rest of the world stages of social media in South Africa, is the personal branding of high level business leaders. At first the idea may seem a little absurd. Running a national corporate surely requires no personal branding and someone … Continue reading
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Plumbing the Depths of Social
The possibilities and excitement of social media continue to amaze me. Mando Lopes is a friend of mine and a gadget freak. He is generally the first to buy the the latest must have item. He is also a plumber. Now plumbers have had their fair share of abuse when it comes to stereotyping and, really, what could be interesting about it? Mando is going green with his plumbing and he’s taking it social. I am a social media catalyst, a champion and an evangelist. But even I was not sure that there would be a place for a plumber … Continue reading
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Hi-Fi Corporation Goes Social, Gets Funky
A number of South African big brands are making their way on to the social web. Only a handful are coming close to making a good shake at it. The rest are not doing too well at all. The change of mindset required for social media can be almost impossible to fathom for a business and the bigger the business the more difficult it becomes. One brand that is taking small steps and taking the time to come to grips with how it works is Hi-Fi Corporation and being engaged is beginning to show positive results. According to Digital Manager, Anne … Continue reading
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Can Social Lighten up Stuffy Corporate? Sappi thinks so.
In March this year I wrote an article about how The Dream Team Catalyst are using Yammer as a social media platform for internal communication. It was a revelation for me. While chatting with Carol Milner, a friend who works for Sappi, the subject came up and she said Sappi had been using Yammer in the workplace and it was very popular. I jumped at the chance to meet with some peeps over at Sappi to find out how it is working for them. In the case of Dream Team, Yammer made sense. They are a small, tight-knit, fun bunch of … Continue reading
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Our Heads are in the Cloud
The Cloud. It’s been talked about for sometime and it’s here. Not dissimilar to “The Grid” (think Tron) but unfortunately far less 3D stimulating (for now). When I first read of the concept somewhere around 2008 I thought it was a ridiculous premise given the cost and state of broadband in South Africa and I gave it little thought after that. But like all grand concepts its takes over through a gradual erosion of fixed ideas. Just like online purchasing; just like social media. This all came home to me in the last week. I will soon be purchasing the … Continue reading
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Google+ Circles a Powerful Tool for Business Collaboration
I have been very interested in restricted social media platforms that provide a way for a business to be social among its employees. Both Yammer and Podio are platforms that are used and do the job very well. But I’ve been bothered by the fact that it necessitates being involved in two ecosystems. On the one hand this seems right; the perfect way to keep business and personal separate. In theory you log on to Facebook at home and Yammer at work. Enter Google+. The perfect platform to do it all. By simply creating a company you can collaborate and … Continue reading
Own your own Social Media Programme
When it comes to Social Media it’s a tricky time for business. There are so many opinions about how business should tackle social media. In fact you’d be hard pressed to get the same opinion from 3 different “experts”. And that is the promise and the peril: Social Media is so new, so dynamic, so volatile it is impossible to base decisions on any kind of precedent yet there is a world of willing and waiting customers if you get it right. There is one thing I’m sure of: Social Media will benefit a business in direct proportion to how … Continue reading
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