Hardly a week goes by in Yorkshire without an event or workshop on social media. It seems that our appetites for anything digital are insatiable. Last week I attended a sell out social media breakfast seminar organised by the Chartered Institute of PR’s Yorkshire and Lincolnshire group. Deborah Copeland, head of online PR at … ‘I have a cunning plan’ – making social media strategic
by Dr Mark Van Hoorebeek The Director of Studies for Business Studies and Law at Bradford School of Management, and fulfils lead roles in both the Bradford University Innocence Project and Student Law Society. Social networking and locational teaching Foursquare has partnered with twenty US universities to launch the Foursquare For Universities initiative, the foursquare … Foursquare teaching
by Shaeeb Tanwir, I was one of the interns on the Northern Lights PR internship during the summer of 2010 and learnt a lot from it; currently I work for a digital marketing agency called Zeal Digital and have found a lot of the skills I learnt during my time at Northern Lights have been … Northern Lights developed my Zeal for Online Marketing
Peter Finnegan and Filiz Ozakinci are the Chartered Institute of PR’s student reps at Leeds Metropolitan University. They attended a guest lecture on ‘PR in the Boardroom’ given by Northern Lights PR’s chief executive Victoria Tomlinson as part of an autumn lecture series celebrating 20 years of the PR degree at the university Northern Lights … PR in the Boardroom
Phil Byrne of The H2 Companyrecently mentioned Blog Carnivals in his guest blog for us. Phil has kindly written this follow up guest blog for us to explain more! When you hear the word ‘carnival’, music, dancing, games and costumes are probably the first things that come to mind. Well now there’s a new carnival … How To Find & Submit To Blog Carnivals
This blog first appeared as a guest blog for The Forum of Private Business, following their recent survey on the number of SMEs using social media. Don’t get left behind! Even ‘dinosaur businesses’ are into social media Do you remember when websites first appeared? It was the time of dial-up internet connections … Don’t get left behind! Even ‘dinosaur businesses’ are into social media
I was delighted to be the guest today of the CBI at their annual conference in London – representing higher education through Bradford University School of Management. David Cameron had apparently said he wanted to be ‘sunrise uplift’ from now on and it was a surprisingly upbeat day. Here were the key messages that I … 10 take-aways from the CBI conference to make you feel optimistic (mostly)
Richard Abbott of Yorkshire Insider has asked a number of people across the region to write a tweet with our top tips for businesses to maximise social media. For those new to Twitter, a tweet is a message of up to 140 characters sent out to everyone who follows your account. So you don’t get … Create a business blog: 4 steps to blogs that work for your customers and clients
Today we have asked Phil Byrne, one of the UK’s foremost Web optimisation experts, to give us his take on blogs and their importance to good SEO. Here are his tips for the day
