The Learning Social Media by Doing Course Overview

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Social Media Strategies

The Learning Social Media by Doing Course Overview

The Learning Social Media By Doing Course has been put together in response to requests by attendees of the popular Social Media Starter Course for a more practical, hands-on training event.

Designed as a follow up to the entry level Social Media Starter Course, the Learning Social Media By Doing Course is a practical half day workshop that gives anyone new to social media a safe environment to try on the tools for size.

Do you need to Twitter for work?  Have you just been nominated company blogger but don’t know your WordPress from your Movable Type?  Do you feel overwhelmed by all this talk of trackbacks, pingbacks and Google PageRank?

Then the Learning Social Media By Doing Course is for you.

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The first Social Media Single: “Credit Crunch Christmas” by Micky P. Kerr

Posted on 19. Dec, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Engagement Marketing, Social Media Strategies

Social Media Christmas Number One

Earlier this week I shared how Peter Hartey, a recent attendee of the Social Media Starter Course was seeing some fantastic online success around a social media project he launched after attending the course in October.

Hot on the heels of Peter’s good news, I’ve been contacted by another Social Media Starter Course attendee with details of a fascinating social media project, this time featuring a Christmas single!

Liam Walsh of Ask Me PR is currently promoting an inventive musician’s Credit Crunch-themed Christmas single using social media.

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Introducing the Social Media Starter Course

Posted on 03. Sep, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies

Introducing the Social Media Starter CourseI’m pleased to announce that you can now register for our newly minted Social Media Starter Course.

Social Media Starter Course

Date: 10 October 2008
Time: 9:30am–12:30pm
Venue: One Central Park, Northampton Road, Manchester, M40 5WW
Cost: £100 including lunch

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Social Media Starter Course Overview

Posted on 03. Sep, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Social Media Strategies

Social Media Starter Course Overview

Introduction
In these times of economic uncertainty, how do you stand out in a crowded marketplace?

Your competition is increasingly your customers themselves, empowered by social media platforms like blogs, micro-blogging tools like Twitter and profiles on social networking and video sharing sites.

They are staying connected with each other for longer online, and increasingly via the mobile web using smartphones like the iPhone, creating and consuming information about products and services in a virtuous circle of digital word of mouth.

It is time to admit the inevitable.

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