Link Shortening
I’m once again blazing a trail with my social media discoveries by talking about bit.ly. Okay so short links are nothing new (in new media terms at least) and I’m not exactly an early adopter, but having jumped on the band wagon just as it’s pulling out of the station, I’ve recently started using it more [...]
My Social Media Stats
It’s fair to say that in the the last few months I’ve been on a mission to embrace New/Social Media. I currently have active accounts with Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, foursquare, Feedburner and YouTube. Having made the initial first steps of establishing the accounts I thought it would be interesting to look at my current social media stats.
Facebook: 68 friends
LinkedIn: [...]
Discovering RSS Feeds
RSS Feeds have, in the last week gone from being something I didn’t really get, to something I can’t believe I ever did without. I was aware that there were things called RSS Feeds and I had a vague idea of the type of thing they did but it wasn’t until I took the [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning #2
Due to the Glasshouse going into liquidation we had to move the 2nd ELCM to Craigielaw Golf Club who made us very welcome – although they did have a rather relaxed attitude to taking payment for the coffees!
Anyway, we had a few less people than last time – perhaps due to the location? – but [...]
Geo-tag your business
Geo-tagging, for anyone who hasn’t come across the term yet is an emerging trend that is being hailed by some as the next step in social media. It’s essentially assigning physical, geographic locations to actions, events and anything else you can think of. It’s been around for a while already in various guises you can geo-tag [...]
My YouTube Channel
Apparently on the 1st May 2007 I set up a the Al Bryce YouTube Channel. I say apparently because I don’t remember doing it and until this week I have never done anything with it but in my attempt to dominate the first page of my google search* and I thought it would be worth taking a look [...]
Equity Punk & Crowdfunding
I am now the proud owner of a share in Scotland’s hippest Brewery. BrewDog is a brewery located in the north of Scotland and they recently launched an online “crowdfunding” scheme selling shares to raise £250,000 of equity.
Crowdfunding is not a new concept but one that has flourished under the Internet and in particular, the [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning – Update
An update to my earlier post.
The first get-together of the East Lothian Coffee morning took place on Friday morning and seemed to be a great success. About 48 people turned up which was beyond my expectations but fantastic all the same. Still waiting to see the survey monkey feedback on the event but the anecdotal [...]
Trying out search engine optimisation – update
I recently wrote about my beginners attempt at search engine optimisation on my sister-in-laws website. It’s now been five weeks since I gave it a shot and needless to say it’s had varied success. Registering with Google Maps was great as her listing always comes up on a google search for ‘personal trainer aberdeen’ or [...]
Social media at work
It’s become such an everyday term that it’s hard to imagine that ’social media’ only dates back to around July 2006. But here we are a little less than 4 years later and Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others have become an everyday activity for millions of people. And where you find millions of people, [...]
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