Original at guardian.co.uk
Four years ago, Hornsey library became the centre of my working life after I moved to London. I had worked there for a few months when I met the assistant director Diana Edmonds, and we had a chat about social media.
At the time I had been involved in a few [...]
Sharing Social Media skills, either in open mornings, through consulting, coaching or structured courses, was one of the main intentions when setting up the Unlibrary.
Tomorrow will be the start of a pilot 6 session Social Media course over 7 weeks, where face-to-face sessions are limited to an hour per week, and learning happens [...]
A local business needs to speak to its customers. Social Media is becoming mainstream (especially in my local area), yet businesses are still afraid to jump in. Apart from the time commitment (I get to hear ‘I don’t have time to tweet’ quite a lot) there are many fears involved.
This is understandable, but it [...]
Right at the beginning of this post, I should state that:
I do think hiring a digital agency to help with social media is worthwhile.
I do also think that in many organisations, decision-makers feel that they have no idea about social media, so are going into the process of deciding a strategy rather unprepared. [...]
Earlier this week I spoke to Lizzie who runs the communications for the Shine 2010 unconference.
We spoke about a lot of things connected to the event. I took part last year and didn’t feel a huge amount of community engagement. It’s funny to think that I feel more positive community cohesion in the [...]
So last year I went around and told people at the World Travel Market to look to their own local communities before trying to build a social media campaign. This year I’ve actually applied to speak about it (yes, in front of people and all that!)
This is the synopsis I just submitted: (I’ve never [...]
