Chris Burdge | Miscellaneous | August 19, 2010
Many of the online marketing and social media campaigns I see these days focus on the big three networks; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Occasionally a smattering of Flickr, and some social bookmarking sites and of course YouTube, which is the one I want to talk about today.
YouTube is the most popular video storage and sharing website [...]
Chris Burdge | Miscellaneous | July 27, 2010
People are talking about you, your company, your brand. They’re making comments – good, bad, indifferent.
Word of mouth affects people’s choices in every aspect of their lives from purchases to travel tips and where to stay, which furniture to buy, where to go out for dinner.
If you’re tapped into the conversation and what’s been said, [...]
Chris Burdge | Miscellaneous, Social Media | June 23, 2010
Well you got your Facebook in my Twitter!
After an eye-opening discussion about Linkedin at the Victoria Social Media Club last night I decided to take a closer look at how Linkedin usage and behaviour has evolved over the last year.
It appears that many users are “taking advantage” of the Twitter – Linkedin integration to [...]
Chris Burdge | Blogging, Miscellaneous, Social Media | June 18, 2010
In doing research for an upcoming talk I’m doing about Linkedin, I uncovered some juicy insights and tips that I wanted to share with you.
Employers Use Social Media to Screen Candidates
According to a June 2009 CareerBuilder survey Forty-five percent of employers reported using social networking sites to screen potential employees. Eleven percent of employers [...]
Nick Cunningham | Miscellaneous | April 28, 2010
Congratulations to the Sage staff who participated in the TC10K. Not only did we have a fun race, some personal bests, and a great excuse to stuff ourselves at breakfast but the Sage team, Tweet My Dust, managed to raise $330 for charity.
Special thank-you goes out to Expert English Training for their generous donation.
Chris Whiteley | Miscellaneous, Social Media | April 21, 2010
Farmville. That’s all I have to say and half of you get excited about sharing watering cans and harvesting crops while the other half gets cranky about the amount of Farmville crap all over their Facebook Newsfeed.
Currently I am one of those Farmville haters, I have to wade through updates of friends that are [...]