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Category Archives: Social Networking
Social media lesson #83
Is: if everyone hates you, don’t try and be their friend. (Click for bigger, or see the full car crash in realtime.)
Posted in Oh dear, Social Networking
Tagged brand, facebook, fail, nestle, Social Networking
6 Comments
See, local gov *can* do Facebook
One of the highlights of last Wednesday’s LGComms event was hearing about Coventry City Council‘s Facebook page. If you click to see the larger image, you’ll notice that the page has 11,321 fans (as at the time of writing). 11,321! … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking
Tagged communications, coventry, coventry city council, facebook, lgcomms, local government, localgov, web
16 Comments
Formspring
Formspring seems a neat little service. It creates a profile for you on which people can ask questions, either anonymously or by logging in. Questions don’t become publicly published though until you decide they are worth answering, so there is … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking
Tagged answers, discussion, engagement, formspring, microblogging, questions
5 Comments
Ironic Facebook adverts #47
Is Facebook really the best place to advertise this product? Maybe it is…
OpenSocitm
I had an interesting time at Socitm09 – a lot of the conversations I had were useful, and others fruitful. I won’t lie to you, though, a lot of what I saw and heard I found pretty painful. My Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Social Networking
Tagged membership, ning, organisations, Social Networking, socitm, socitm09
5 Comments
