A couple of weeks ago there were two significant events in social media marketing. The first was the “quiet” launch of some new Apple products, and the second was the change to the Skittles corporate site. Both used social media in very different ways. The results for both campaigns was massive exposure. So, mission accomplished?

From 2012 the government intends that every employer offers every employee a pension to which both the employer and employee will have to contribute. Your employees will have to be enrolled in the scheme from day one of starting employment, and existing staff will have to be registered by a certain date. Even if your employee doesn’t want a pension you will have to enrol them into the scheme so that they can then choose to opt out of it.

A social network relies on its credibility and this is achieved by how it protects its members. Sadly, Ecademy’s credibility as a social network has been completely undermined by one of its founders as it has allowed my details to enter the public domain and as a direct result has caused my email account to be spammed. In the title of the post I mentioned Twitter, Ecademy and LinkedIn. The reason for this is that they can act as a very effective funnel for networking. Here’s how.

This is a quick “how to” post if you experience the above error when installing Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007.

Social media – when applied to the web and mobile technologies – is a collective term for any place where dialogue can occur. This dialogue is generated by members of the community where the interaction occurs and could be text, pictures, video or audio, or any combination of these.