Students from across the UK are being offered the chance to win up to £2,000 for getting their friends signed up to a brand new social media network. Flippie, a platform set to rival the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn will launch in fresher’s weeks across the country this September. And the graduate behind the system is giving away £1,000 to the university student who gets the most sign ups in the week. Kieran Roper will also hand out a further £1,000 to the individual who shows the most entrepreneurial spirit in attracting interest. Students from all over the country will be battling it...
Global IT giants including Amazon and LinkedIn could be doing far more to raise awareness of the need for better password practices among their users.
Analysis by Professor Steve Furnell, Director of the Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research at Plymouth University, looked into the password security controls in place among ten of the world’s most visited websites.
It revealed very few of them give detailed guidance about the importance of providing secure passwords, either when users were creating or updating accounts.
The Teignmouth and Dawlish Social Media Cafe is one year old this October.
Over the past year it has helped over 50 local businesses and community organisations with help and advice in using social media to promote themselves.
The birthday cafe will be held at the Langstone Cliff Hotel in Dawlish on Tuesday 7 October and experts will be on hand to provide advice on which social media to use and how to set up accounts.
The social media cafe runs from 5pm to 7.30pm and provides a free drop-in event where people can pick up tips and hints on using social media, ask...
In this latest In a nutshell video local business expert Chris Wood at Q Social Media discusses how to utilise your Linkedin connections.
Chris gives great advice on how to make LinkedIn work for you. He also explains the importance of using your connections to help your develop new connections. “Advanced People Searches -- you can utilise existing connections to introduce you to shared connections - people you don't know but that your connections do. Helping you to develop new connections. This will give you new opportunities to: Drive sales leads Be seen as industry experts...
In this video local expert Ann Holman from Our Think Lab discuss whether she thinks social media is good or bad.
Ann then goes on to explain her answer and gives her thoughts on the future of social media
"This is the time to look forward to when we can redirect our efforts away from posting what we had for breakfast or drunken images of last night, to co-creating and collaborating. Using the connections, fans and followers we have accumulated on social media platforms. It's about solving real problems in society and in business. Thats when it gets really special."
With Social Media marketing taking on a life of its own in recent years, we at The Plum Consultancy ask what is relevant and what isn’t? How many people are drowning under the barrage of tweets, shares, likes, LinkedIn requests and Google+ notifications? Are they all meaningful or are tweets being re-tweeted within an inch of their lives and is anyone taking any notice or is it all going in the spam folder?!
We believe the considered approach is the only approach to have when using and dealing with Social Media for business purposes. Social Media is as much about relationship...
For those of you that don’t already know, LinkedIn is a powerful networking site that can be used to create business opportunities, ask questions, and build credibility. In particular, it can be a brilliant tool to generate leads from high-end decision makers, especially since 39% of members are at management level or above.
As a user, you should be pro-actively using the site to ensure you are exploiting its full potential. With this in mind, we have put together 3 ways in which you can use LinkedIn to do just that.
The "Camera skills, lighting and sound" workshop is designed to help you get the most out of your video equipment to create good looking and good sounding business videos. This session includes advice and demonstrations suitable for dedicated video cameras and mobile devices.
