I often get asked “what makes a great social media photo”, so thought I’d share my thoughts on this via the blog.

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I recently blogged about My Twitter 10 Commandments and My LinkedIn 10 Commandments, and here’s my thoughts on blogging.

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How many profile views do you get on LinkedIn per day? And what do you do when you see that someone has looked at your profile? And how do you generate these views? Do you know the power of this tool and how it can help you generate more contacts and business?

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I have run out of business cards… AND my website has just had an overhaul / rebrand… what do I do? In a moment of madness I decided to not bother with getting any new ones printed as most of my networking is now online… then I hesitated, panicked and stopped the bus!

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I recently blogged about My Twitter 10 Commandments (thanks to all of you who retweeted this. Thought I would follow up with my thoughts on LinkedIn. Let me know what you think.

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Outlook Social Connector is a free bit of kit that you can find within LinkedIn that links your LinkedIn account to your Outlook software. We love it at this end, so I wanted to share with you the benefits and how to complete a very simple setup.

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Social media: all about “sharing not selling”, and you will always hear me wobbling on about tweeting not bleeting, sharing not barking, pulling not pushing, but “selling” (or “pushing”) through social media really does have a place, even if it is a small one.

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Have you ever performed what I call a Google Trawl? We recently project managed a client’s new website, and the first thing I asked them to do was a Google trawl. Bear in mind, what Google says about you is highly influential – it will influence surfers, and impact upon your bottom line.

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Did you know that nearly 40% of UK mobile users have smart phones (ie. the ability to surf the web). If you use the format +44 (0) above, you are making it difficult for me to call you from my smart phone…

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Currently Twitter has over 200m users, is 10th on the Alexa web rankings scale and 200m tweets are sent per day. All of this adds up to a very active environment, with many positives, but unfortunately, some risks – one of these being SPAM.

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