The world of blogging, twitter, linkedin and facebook

[325 for Telecoms & IT]

Hi,
I am a member of Linkedin and find it really useful for keeping in touch with people I came across in my working life...I also use Facebook for my personal contacts.

However I appreciate they have more to offer than just a tool to keep in touch, I have taken the plunge and decided to use these applications to try and improve customer awareness and bring 325 Consultancy to the forefront of peoples minds when they are next looking to purchase Telecoms & IT services.

325 Consultancy | FacebookPlease feel free to become a fan

and a blog has now been set up at 325consultancy’s Blog
Cannot get my head around Twitter though...it just seems pointless! If anyone has any ideas on how I could use twitter to improve customer awareness I would appreciate their feedback and likewise any feedback on the blog and facebook page would be great.....I am aiming to provide information that would useful whether you end up using 325 Consultancy or not, is this useful would you want to read this kind of information?? What information would you like to see on a Telecoms & IT blog???

Appreciate your feedback :001_unsure: I think!!

Many thanks
Karen

 

[Boxby]

I had a need to put an rss reader into my website, to display road news feeds. I procrastinted around this for a while, as I am a non codey, and wasn't 100% sure about what I was doing.

I now use twitter. I use twitterfeed to take the RSS feeds from the said news websites into my twitter account. And I have a twitter reader on my website which displays the twitter feeds to my website visitors.

That's what I wanted it to do. And it does it very well. And I am picking up several followers a day. So it works for me. (I warn people in advance that its good if you want to know about road news - because i've had over 1200 updates in a month!!)

I think the key is to have a context to make it work for you, and not simply do it because that's what other people are doing.

 

[Gordon N]

Boxby is right, if it doesn't have context it won't be useful. But another thing to remember is that Twitter is a two way thing, you should never join it purely to promote your brand/product/service - that my friends skirts on the 'spam' frontier!

I personally find Twitter really useful on keeping up to date on the latest developments, tutorials and articles relevant to my business which is worth the free signup alone - once you find the right people to follow its amazing what little gems popup.

As for what you should publish... it's a great way to promote your blog posts for one. If you find anything that may be of use to your followers post it, retweet it or share it again. This shows anyone following that you are in it for them as well as yourself, whilst gaining you a little more 'authority in your field' if you like.

There are a few social media types here on SBF who I am sure will have some more useful advice for maximising potential on Twitter...

 

[stuarty]

Twitter can be useful - personally I don't have time for it in the public sense. Our closed twitter account is very active and we use this more than anything else for giving updates.

We have one client who uses it to disseminate information to their client base. You could build a base by offering a tip a day on a techie IT subject. People will follow you if you post regularly.

Re your blog - you're on a real winner if you keep this updated regularly. You will attract natural links. Post on other good quality blogs. Publish a list of the 10 best authors in your field - flattery works. Publish regular articles like 5 top tips, 5 things not to do. Publish stuff like the ten best ways to save money. People love these pages and google will spider them and give rank.

For example if you google "heatmaps" we have a blog post that comes up on page 1 number 10. We get lots of people enquiring about heatmaps as a result.

Hope this helps

 

[325 for Telecoms & IT]

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post, your tips and advise are really appreciated and really useful.

I will keep you posted how I get on

Cheers
Karen