Social Media for Business

Should you manage your own social media or outsource it to a professional?

A question I was asked on The BackSeat a few weeks ago and what a good question.

My answer to this question is both and here are my reasons:

Outsourcing social media management to a professional.

The reason you would want to outsource your social media to a consultant is because they are specialists in their field. They are on top of industry news, new products and new platforms. A social media consultant will spend a lot of time keeping in the loop with what is going on, especially when it comes to changes and new platforms. In the

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Kony 2012 – Social Media Brilliance

As most of you know by now there’s been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Kony 2012 video which was made by Invisible Children. I’m not here to say they are right, or wrong, what I will say it does leave a lot of questions and rightly so. I’m not writing this blog to discuss their rights and wrongs of what they did, there are enough people doing that already. I want to talk about their use of social media.

On the social media front, you can see that Invisible Children defined their goals and objectives and had

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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

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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

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