Published by Janine on 29 Sep 2009

Twitter Training by Andy Atkins-Kruger

As social media is playing a more active part in many organisations, WebCertain MD, Andy Atkins-Kruger decided to hold a Twitter Training session, the idea being to maximise website traffic and to enhance company engagement with their audience. After all, social media is a cost-effective marketing solution with real time search benefits.

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Published by Janine on 10 Aug 2009

Can Tweeting help get your own way?

When I read this article http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/traveltips/08/06/travel.social.media/index.html from cnn.com I was thinking about how popular Twitter and Facebook are, how they have developed over the years and how we all use them to micro-blog about what is happening around us.

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Published by Janine on 13 Feb 2009

Travel Companies and Twittering?!

The use of social networks and micro-blogging is growing faster than ever, with many business joining in to enhance their services, improve internet rankings, reputations, any campaigns and much much more.

Recently the first official “Twisitor Centre” was launched in the US by Travel Portland, where travellers can connect to the Twisitor Centre to find out holiday / travel information, just like a walk in visitor centre, which relies on Twitter technology, so travellers can plan holidays to the city etc etc.

The use of codes to transfer the “tweets” to the Twisitor Centre is essential to get the correct feedback, visit Travel Mole who reported on the tweeting city.

Twitter and other micro blogging / social networking sites are great to find out local information, like places you are visiting on holiday etc, keeping your Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc profile public may be risky if you declare too much information, however if you are following people from all over the world, information will be far more accessible, just remember to be careful!!