An interview with Nikki Pilkington – a leader in simplifying social media & internet marketing

Posted by Chris in Blog, Social networks, Top Class Interviews, innovators and leaders, twitter, web sites on November 6, 2009

Nikki Pilkington is one the founders of nikkipilkington.com. She has consistently managed to position herself as a leader in her field and is a major name in the world of Internet Marketing. Renowned across Europe for her innovative, experienced team of Internet Marketing experts primarily working with SMEs, she’s made her name by delivering results.

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How to use Twitter as a marketing tool

Posted by Chris in Advice, Social networks, twitter on September 8, 2009

The very essence of Twitter is engagement and forming relationships with people.

Across my twitter life I’ve been able to engage and now have regular contact with Gemma Went (@gemmawent).

Part of both our philosophies is collaboration and partnering so rather than me rewrite her words or steal, why not link to her blog and find out all about…

How to use Twitter as a marketing tool (just click the link)

I have nothing further to add. Excellently written, useful and thought provoking!

The value of social media to your business

Posted by Chris in Advice, Blog, Social networks, Video, twitter, web sites, what's new on August 21, 2009

As social media grows at a rate unseen even in ‘online’ terms many are asking the question what is the value of social media and is it all worth it?

Well I could ramble on for hundreds of words (never recommended) or you could just spend four minutes watching the following video and then probably come to the same conclusion that most do.

Points the video shows include

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My follow friday’s for 21 August 2009

Posted by Chris in Blog, Social networks, followfriday, twitter on August 21, 2009

Now every friday I’m going to post #followfridays on my blog and give good reasons why you should follow.

here’s my six (usually five but had to recommend them all) for this week

@juliaerickson – top of my twitter list. Never too much trouble to tweet (and reply). Always interesting links and messages and a really nice person

@JuliaRosien – the happiest person on twitter [official ], so let’s face it, we all need a smile sometimes and Julia is the great at helping get it back. Also has a vast range of subjects covered in tweets

@Minervity – legend on twitter. topics range from ‘design’ and ‘website layout/structure’ to social media and fun stuff. More than recommended

@NikkiPilkington – expert advice and support across all social media.

@joannejacobs – social media expert with a great website and tweets

@andysowards – another top man, with a great attitude to life and excellent tweets centred around web development and online. Always enaging and helpful.

My follow friday’s for 7 August 2009

Posted by Chris in Social networks, followfriday, twitter on August 7, 2009

Now every friday I’m going to post #followfridays on my blog and give good reasons why you should follow.

here’s my five for this week: -

@gemmawent – professional, engaging and intelligent with an eye for useful information and inciteful tweets. If you want to know anything about social media within the design or  architecture sector; or just want to keep up with pr/marketing/social media then FOLLOW

@volumegroup – never dull tweets and always entice you in with great hooks. Very useful to follow and brings an interesting and informative tweet style. recommended

@marcmapes - uses twitter like I think it should be used. engages in comversation and mixes tweets up with great effect

@JennaMadison - so much fun, with a pinch of  crazy & always brightens the twitter day up. Never a dull moment and its good to mix different types of people up in twitter I think…

@SharonHayes - one of the best twitterers about. Always interesting with a vast amount of subjects discussed. Always engages and is well worth a follow.

…so that’s my votes in from the @chrish10 jury. Hope you follow these good people and more next week.