(WALES) Today, myself, Bobbie, and special guest Karl, are training at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, in Wales for a Staff Development day entitled ‘Capturing the Learner Voice’. We’ll be working with a number of Deputy & 6th Form Heads and Consortium Co-ordinators, enlightening their minds and showing the vast uses of social media in a teaching environment.
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(WORLD) With any new(ish) industry / sector, there comes a transition of semantics and an amalgamation of terms which start to muddy the discussions until a consensus has been reached.
Of late, we've noted an increasing use of the term 'social networking' when in fact they mean 'social media'.
Why is this important?
Check it:
Just as the violin is not the orchestra, social networking is not social media.
If someone talks to you about how social networking can help you raise your brand profile don't forget to ask about social media (and how it can help to make things quicker, cheaper and sexier).
(WAL) Today myself and DK are visiting Bridgend College to work with the Entrepreneurial Champions on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government. These champions aim to promote entrepreneurship to their students across Wales. Once empowered, we hope they will go on to enable others to steer their motivation in the most effective, communicative and financially lucrative way possible.
(IRL) Yesterday myself and DK had a short notice phone call to step into another speaking gig for Vistage UK. Like excited little bunnies (or at least me, because this is my first trip to the Emerald Isle) we packed and fled the country like a pair of high tailing bandito’s.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Heather Oldani is the Director of PR for McDonalds (USA) and colead on their digital strategy.
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0.47—3.07 the digital strategy
3.08—5.30 monitoring the brand online and how do they react to it
5.31—9.12 examples of engagement
9.13—11.45 priorities relating to internal adoption
11.46—13.41 future plans
13.42—13.53 outro
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(WORLD) This is quite fun.
Social media is like the classic Swiss Army Knife—can be used in so many ways.
Here are the top ten search terms :
I know we've done nearly all of these and over time I'm wondering how this will change?
Will more generic things start to appear like 'plan a wedding', 'buy a car', 'find a man/woman' etc.
What do you think?
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(GBR) Serving up another juicy half-day social-media-taster for a group of CEOs on behalf of Vistage International this morning in Putney.
DK and Mark helped us today to understand what social media is all about and showed us in a very practical way how we could use it. The 'new normal' for all our businesses requires us to consider and implement more person to person communication in our marketing mix.
John Thorpe, Group Chairman
Related posts : Past Vistage Speaking Group Gigs
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