Posts tagged: social media

North East’s most influential Twitter users

19 January 2012 – 12:23 pm

Twitter, the social media tool, is becoming an increasingly useful way to reach people of influence.  One retweet from an influential Twitter user can send your message through to thousands of followers, even go global.  With this in mind I have gathered a list here of who I believe to be the North East’s most [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Posted in Social Media | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Bish, Bash, Bosh.

21 March 2011 – 2:51 pm

I’m increasingly drawn these days to the various debates emanating from the Our Society network. There’s some really good stuff going on there so check it out if you get the chance. It was whilst on the site the other day that I was spring-boarded to observations made by Kevin Harris after a Julian Dobson [...]

By Andrew Samuel | Posted in Big Society, ICT, Social Media | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Did you change your Facebook profile to a cartoon character?

8 December 2010 – 1:25 pm

Users of Facebook this week will have noticed that a lot of their friends have turned into cartoon characters this week. A campaign has snowballed across the social networking site spread through people changing their profile picture to their favourite childhood cartoon character and posting a comment to ask others to do the same ‘to [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Posted in Social Media | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Social Media, worth the extra workload?

10 November 2010 – 2:48 pm

Ive just come back from a training course on using Social Media for charities. It provoked some interesting conversations amongst the attendees, mainly all from small organisations around the region. One of the biggest gripes we all had was that social media has been bolted on to the typical communications worker role, without necessarily removing [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Posted in Communications, Social Media | Comments (0)