Social Media for Business

Would it have made a difference?

Would it have made a difference if you had someone to turn to?

I was asked this question in an interview the other day and I was so overwhelmed by the event that I gave an answer that was true but also not entirely true as it could make people think that my mom and my gran did not love or care about me.   The truth is they did, they loved and cared about me very much but the day my mother became religious and because of how we were raised and how the human race dictated what was “acceptable behaviour” keeping up the appearance meant that I could never really talk to them about the things that were happening to me as a teenager and I never really felt they had my back and by no means was it intentional.  My mom and gran were also damaged goods of the human race and they did what they knew best while coping with their own issues.

It all went pear shaped the day I turned 13 and it’s been a roller coaster ride since that day.  Now I’m no different to anyone else, in fact I would say that

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London and UK riots are they justified?

There are people who try to justify the UK riots and say that the youth are frustrated and they have no future and so they have to let it out! They want change.

From my point of view, there is just no justification for burning someone’s house down, for burning someone’s business and livelihood down.  I don’t care what your reason is!

If you have an issue with the government then why on earth don’t you go and burn their houses down?  Damage their goods and make  sure it is the right government the ones who caused the problem in the first place.   Quite frankly to me this is not a good justification either but the fact is that the people on the street, the people around us are all in the same boat.  They are not the ones who caused this and yet they become the victims of your actions.  If  WWF can get the world to turn off their lights for one hour then surely there are other ways of dealing with serious issues.

How about taking a stand as a country and stop paying taxes in countries like South Africa because the government misuses tax payers

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I don’t communicate the way you do.

Whilst reading, “Why you can’t project your energy online” by Dr Lisa Turner I realised why it is so important for some people to meet face to face.  For me personally it hasn’t been a big issue, in fact I love meeting people online and have great synergies with various people across oceans and continents, where we just click and connect.

Lisa explained that our body language, tone of voice and the way we interact with other people is all part of the bigger picture in us feeling connected and that we feel we don’t really know the person until we meet them face to face.  It is a very interesting read.

It finally made sense to me why most people feel it is so important to meet face to face and why they struggle to understand the concept of networking online and that developing any form of interaction with other human beings seems a foreign concept and is unacceptable.

So basically the need for people to meet face to face makes them feel secure in that they know who that someone is and by meeting face to face you would possibly make a judgement on whether they

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Leveraging social media for business

You may have noticed a lot of coverage over the past couple of years about the rapid growth of social networks and how they are changing the way we communicate? Perhaps, you have also stumbled across one of the many articles professing how to ‘double your sales’ with Twitter or Facebook and maybe feel you have missed the boat with your own marketing? But, it’s actually worth asking the question as to whether marketing through social media actually works in the first place, and, if it does, how can you make it work for your business?

The Changing Face Of The Web

Many social media web sites have been built on the back of a technical evolution on the Internet – something paraphrased as “Web 2.0″. It’s a term that many marketers talk about with great authority and it is used in many different contexts. But, what exactly is it?

In the early days of the Internet, a website contained words and pictures – like a magazine or brochure – and it wasn’t an interactive environment. But, with the advent of Blogging, Wikis and commenting (to name but a few) we can all get involved with conversations

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