Top Social Media Best Practices
Using social media for business, but not quite sure if you’re doing things right? Make the most out of social media by applying these best practices.
Using social media for business, but not quite sure if you’re doing things right? Make the most out of social media by applying these best practices.
Social media has rapidly become a valuable asset for business. Learn more about how being on social media benefits large and small businesses alike.
Five simple words to guide your goal-setting process: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. Here’s how to set SMART goals.
A social media management action plan ensures that all your online activities supplement your overall brand growth strategy. Learn how to make one:
In the ever-growing world of social media managers, how can you stand out? By fully embodying these characteristics, that’s how. Read more:
Here’s a comprehensive guide to the attitudes, knowledge, and skills you need to equip yourself with to become a pro at social media consultancy.
Being a social media consultant may not be as easy as you think. Here are some of the snags that come with the job — and how to get past them.
Ever wonder exactly what a social media consultant does? Here’s a list of the tasks the job entails, in a creative and easy-to-remember format.
The right tools can make engagement, analytics, and other social media manager tasks a breeze. Learn how you can pick the best tools for your needs.
Give your social media management a little extra push from the unlikeliest places. Here are 5 useful apps to help keep you on track.
Read this easy-to-remember list of C’s and learn why social media management tools can make a tremendous difference in your social media efforts.
What do you need to do to be a really, really awesome social media manager? That’s what I’m going to help you out with today, so read on.
Here are the worst social media management bloopers out there for you below – take a close read and make sure that you definitely steer clear of them.
No matter what field you’re in, wherever you are in the world, this is one of those issues that bugs every single business owner. Late paying clients!
Here are some tips that you could implement right now to improve your social media engagement.
Find out the 4 ultimate steps that you need to know to conquer any social media platform ever created.
We often experience Twitter tips overload, but not a lot of design tips… Here’s one for the list!
For the last few years, I have been professionally delivering WordPress websites for clients from governments to the private sector. I would never say that coding is my strongest skill compared to researching and social media, but I have probably configured more than 30 WordPress websites to date.
As most of you might already know, visual content can really spruce up content and help it go viral.
The landscape of government communications is changing. This puts pressure on governments to communicate more effectively online.
We survived the end of the world, celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee, hosted the London Olympics and (most importantly) GOV.UK was launched!
Open source is defined particularly by its license and that license and those terms of use has very interesting effects.
I know people mostly know me for either talking and writing about social media or web usability. But over the past few years, I’ve been involved in so many different government related projects that I’ve managed to pick up a more bigger picture of government ICT.
A look into how social media guidelines can become unclear to civil servants and how some personal data can be at risk when using social media.
This game takes things off the pitch as well, where the gamer experiences the full 360 degrees lifestyle of being a footballer.
Ever since we started documenting our journey here at Camden webteam, we have been inundated with emails asking about our web strategy and experience redesigning our site. One of the topics that always seem to come up is how we’ve conducted our user-led approach in designing the site.
The LDG Community in conjunction with the Transparency team at DCLG and the LG group are planning a series of events and activities over a 6-month period to encourage use of open data sets and developments of some really useful apps.
There is one thing specifically on how I think Facebook can leverage on news, content/information or interesting articles online. And maybe also try to become the world’s most used search engine after Google and current second place, YouTube search engine.
Its a few weeks away from the ‘Really Useful’ event (open data/apps related) and my inbox is just bursting with some cool whitepapers and websites about open data, apps and mobile publishing/apps content stuff.
Ever since the launch of open data here in the UK by Sir Tim Bernes-Lee in January 2010 with data.gov.uk (who ReadWriteWeb says actually put the US version Data.gov to shame due to the volume of data data.gov.uk offered was far more than the U.S. site), we here in the UK have seen some interesting stuff coming out from raw data.
There is nothing more frustrating than being in government right now if you are looking for change or motivation in your work. With almost no funding available, fewer colleagues to carry the burden, feeling of loss and uncertainty, we are facing an all time low.
As the “Women for Social Change” event is rearing its head, I’d like to share with my readers, both men and women, a TED Talk that made me sit up and listen.
Attempting to outlaw Facebook, Twitter and their lesser-known cousins may cruel your pitch with Gen Y staff EpicStar SuperPost is…
It always makes me wonder, after my 3rd UKGovCamp, how are people reaching all the wonderful information we shared on…
For some of us in local government, mentioning the word widget is not alien to us and has become somewhat part of our online activities.
People often talk about getting on the property ladder for first time buyers and this would possibly be the talking point for many graduates who have manage to secure their first job and now considering their first real estate purchase.
This document provides extensive social media guidance. It contains information for Army leaders, guidance for Army Families, operations security tips, branding information, checklists, regulations and frequently asked questions.
For the past year, I have been rather quiet due to the many thoughts that have entered my mind regarding the future of local government public services online.
The event will be taking the “speed-dating” approach and I will be running the social media round table with Anna Fenston. On top of social media, there will also be search and open data at the ‘speed-dating’ roundtable sessions at the event.
With the demand for cost reductions, CLG calling for innovation in the public sector, ‘Big Society’, calls for more open government data and increasing restrictions on travel, the time is right to re-examine what social media offers local government.
Recently I’ve been more and more consumed with understanding human behaviour and wondering what makes us tick.
Verizon Case Study – How to Avoid an Epic Failure! (Audio Podcast Available). Verizon Communications Social Media Strategy.
I recently was contacted by Matthew Crozier, Director of Bang The Table Ltd, a specialist provider of online stakeholder engagement services in Australia.
I know this is a bit off-topic from government-related topics, but I feel I really wanted to share my future prediction for brick and mortar business when it comes to social media.
Its important to understand that in the context of user-generated content (UGC), the relationship you currently have your community and what type of relationship you wish to create, are two different things.
Predictably Irrational Behaviours.
Sorry for the short notice, but I’ll be presenting in Birmingham today on the topic of Government-to-Citizens Communications.
So here we are, LGEO Research’s first guest blog post! Hooray! Its such a pleasure for me to host this…
As all of you might already know, I was a CELEB for a day last week on board the HMS President. If you’re still a bit clueless, you can check out the details here in my earlier post last week.
So last week, the Learning Pool Summer Party took place on board the HMS President. There was a lot going on that day but I think the best experience that day for me was playing the ‘Snakes and Ladders’ game with jelly babies.