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Exciting news just in!

Karl Brookes, Head of Communications & Marketing for NHS Salford is joining our esteemed panel of speakers at the July Manchester Social Media Surgery.

For once, the surgery metaphor is apt in the traditional sense!

An early adopter of many new technologies, Karl has led his team to a position where NHS Salford’s use of social media to engage and communicate with their local population is recognised as pioneering within the healthcare sector.

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Here comes a roundup of upcoming social media and digital content events taking place in the region in June.

Want to add your event to the list?

Contact us at least one month before your event and we’ll publicise it! Call it a media partnership in the making…

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A couple of years ago I started reviewing FTSE 100 companies use of social media.

One of the companies I reviewed was the now beleaguered oil giant BP.

As I said then:

My pre-evaluation expectation of how the company will fare:
I expect BP, who have significant consumer facing operations in the UK, to have a social media-rich web presence.  Let’s see.

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Brendan Dawes, creative director of digital design company magneticNorth shows off the new VisitManchester.com on his Apple iPad

Here comes that promised blog post about the launch of the new and improved VisitManchester.com.

I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the new VisitManchester.com website in the rather salubrious settings of the Portico Library last week.

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Image credit: Talaris.com

Social media is no longer a fad.   Many recognise that with the ubiquity of broadband access speeds in excess of 2MB, consumers are now capable of sharing significant amounts of content with others online at little to no cost.

The ability to post video, images and text to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and social media platforms like blogs, Flickr and YouTube have enabled web users to become multi-media publishers in their own right.

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Following requests from attendees of Real Fresh TV’s Social Media Starter Course, I’m pleased to announce we’ll now be offering a Social Media Monitoring Training Course.

Full course details to follow in the next blog post!

The funny things people say…

To mark the six month anniversary of the Manchester Social Media Surgery, I’ve compiled 5 great questions asked by attendees that highlight objections businesses have to using social media like blogs, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for marketing.

Social Media Surgery events are free monthly events that help Manchester businesses embrace the social media revolution in order to grow and market their companies.

Each Manchester Social Media Surgery offers real life advice and case studies from an experienced panel of digital and social media marketers who discuss social media projects and issues presented by the audience.

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Real Fresh TV, a social media training and implementation consultancy based in Manchester, develops and delivers industry-leading social media marketing training courses specifically designed to equip business owners with the confidence to strategically use free social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to grow and market their companies.

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Manchester Social Media Surgery, in progress

Last month’s Social Media Surgery for Manchester business saw a 300% increase in attendees following coverage in regional industry press.

The free monthly Social Media Surgery events which help Manchester businesses embrace the social media revolution in order to grow and market their companies saw an influx of new attendees.

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Much has been written online about Facebook’s new ‘Instant Personalization’ features.

At its annual f8 developer conference, the world’s largest social network recently unveiled a raft of new features that aim to make the web inherently social.

The main headline grabber has been the ‘instant personalisation’ features enabled by the Facebook Open Graph API which allows any website to present information about a user’s friends actions on the site.
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