Boost Google Rankings by Participating in the Online Social Conversations


I came across an article today on E-Consultancy, Lifting Google Rank using social conversations which confirms this is the route which Google is going.

A year ago I wrote a blog post about how customer comments would influence your search engine listings. Ahead of my time I hear you say (comes with being in the industry for 12 years!) Continue reading

Life without Twitter or Blogging for a month – How did I get on


For the month of May I decided to see how I could manage without blogging and twittering to see how life was before I got involved.

I initially had some extra time which I used up focusing on client work. After the initial week, I began to feel out of touch with what was going on. Not only with my peers and friends, but in the digital world, as I get a lot of news from Twitter.

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Top 10 Tips on listening & monitoring BEFORE you start your social media campaign

Admittedly listening and monitoring is not the glamorous part and I know time is of essence on a lot of this (as the pace is so fast) but how can you be authentically participate in conversations if you haven’t planned out your responses or got the business processes supporting the campaign? Continue reading

IoD Young Directors Forums – representing tomorrow’s leaders today

Enterprise and the entrepreneurial culture is growing in the UK, and schools, colleges and universities already recognise that they have an important part to play in stimulating an interest in enterprise. We need to build on that platform. Miles Templeman, IoD Director General comments ‘Young Directors are the key to our future economic growth and the IoD is very keen to support and encourage these developing leaders.’ Continue reading

Building an Audience vs Engaging with Consumer Brands: What’s the difference?

If you are a charity, social enterprise, arts project, club or society, then chances are that you’ll be using social media to engage and grow your audience.

But are the conversations that you are having different to those of how consumer brands are engaging with this their fans? Do you need to approach the method of seeding the conversations differently or should you be using different tools? Continue reading