Shouldn’t Social Media Training Be Included With Web Design Services?
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Social Media Strategies
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The rather provocative title comes from recent experience on an interesting project with a brilliant new client.
Contact Theatre, Manchester’s home for explosive new theatre run a biennial international theatre exchange programme called Contacting the World.
Introduction to Social Media for Media Professionals
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
I’m pretty excited about this! Starting next month, on Wednesday 10th February to be precise, I will be running a new social media training course aimed squarely at the media industry in the North West.
The new Introduction to Social Media for Media Professionals course, designed specifically for digital media professionals considering use of social media within media projects, builds on Real Fresh TV’s success with the UK’s longest running ’social media for beginners’ course: the Social Media Starter Course.
Along with an assessment of workable strategies for developing multi-platform content, the course concludes with an introduction to the rigours and demands of creating content for multiple platforms.
Read on for details of the course and how to register. (more…)
Social Media Starter Course – Tuesday 27th October, 9:30am – 12:30pm
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
It’s been a little while since the last Social Media Starter Course but I’m pleased to announce there’s one scheduled for Tuesday 27th October 2009.
Real Fresh TV’s innovative Social Media Starter Course was developed over a year ago and launched in October 2008 as the first dedicated Social Media for Beginners training course in the UK.
It has proven incredibly popular, with academics, marketers, PR companies, photographers and even non-profits attending over the course of the year.
Attendees even requested a more hands-on follow up course, the Learning Social Media By Doing Course which has since been developed.
Here’s some of the fantastic feedback the Social Media Starter Course has received:
The First Learning Social Media By Doing Course – A Success!
Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
By all accounts, yesterday’s first Learning Social Media By Doing Course was a success!
Put on specifically in response to requests by attendees of the Social Media Starter Course for a more practical follow-up course, the half-day workshop was aimed at giving beginner to medium level social media users a hands-on introduction to social media tools.
And hands-on they got!
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 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.
Using Twitter for Discussion and Feedback during the Social Media Starter Course
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
Yesterday morning saw an incredibly well attended Social Media Starter Course, the second ever and fully booked!
Attendees included staff from Salford, Manchester Metropolitan and Manchester universities looking to engage with the local community using social media, the marketing team from online travel and leisure company, iKnow, a community worker from Trafford Metropolitan Borough and a PR/journalist.
It was a pretty mixed group with varying levels of social media experience and knowledge.
2009: The Year Social Media Becomes Big Business in the UK
Posted on 06. Jan, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Social Media Strategies
Or so it would seem.
It’s the season for predictions. From the BBC’s list of hotly tipped bands for 2009 to Wired’s list of tech predictions including a look at the wry miscalculations of yesteryear, this time of year it seems you can’t move for lists of predictions.
I’ll throw one into the mix for good measure. I think that 2009 will be the year social media makes its way into the enterprise in the UK.
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
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.
Landmine Charity MAG Kicks Off Ambitious Poetry Prize Using Social Media
Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
It’s not often I get the opportunity to combine social media with a worthy cause and so I was rather excited to hear that one of the last attendees on the Social Media Starter Course has joined forces with MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the Manchester landline charity, to kick off an ambitious online poetry competition using social media.
Peter Hartey is behind Poetic Republic, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the poetic arts and humanitarian causes. Poetic Republic was born out of Poetica, a completely open writing forum based in Central Library, Manchester.
Introducing the Social Media Starter Course
Posted on 03. Sep, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
I’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
