We Are Social People

With more than 465 million accounts and 175 million tweets every single day, Twitter plays a pivotal role in the thousands of different social media marketing strategies run by companies worldwide. But why is using Twitter for business such an effective online marketing tool and what’s so special about Twitter in particular? There are all [...]

Social networking is a viable medium to connect with people across the globe. Therefore, you can use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as a tool to widen your network. Many people are using these social networking tools to find new jobs to build their career. But you should be aware that these social networking tools have [...]

This week MarketMeSuite released some fun new tools to the suite in their latest update to “The Social Inbox.” The Inbox For those who may not be aware of what a social media Inbox is, think of your email interface and then just apply all of your important social networks and data across it! You have [...]

One of the first industries to embrace the use of Social Media to build long lasting, profitable relationships with customers is the Motor Industry. Now, for Social Media Managers and Consultants, the automotive businesses are a staple in our client portfolios. As a Social Media Manager and Consultant myself, I find that consulting and training for [...]

I was invited to write an article by Nikki Peters and I thought, what the heck would I write about that may have any interest to the readers here at We are Social People. I felt honored that she asked me and wondered if she had ever read anything I had written.  If she did, she never left [...]

Social Media has impacted every aspect of our lives, whether we like it or not. From Twitter #Hashtags on TV and QR Codes on logos, we are communicating full sentences at the click of a button or a snap of a picture. But the impact of Social Media has even reached the roots of our [...]

Thai Prime Minster Yingluck Shinawatra, has had her personal Twitter account hacked. Bad enough that a head political figure should have her public feed over taken, any politicians worse social media nightmare,  but the hackers then used this as an opportunity to question her competence as Prime Minister for the world to see. One tweet read: [...]

I come from a working class family, dirty fingernails and no money.  Somehow never getting above ground level was because “It’s not what you know … but who you know”. My family had this strange idea that people prefer to work with other people that they already know are safe.  They weren’t far wrong there, [...]

Yes ladies and gentleman, a robot using social networks whilst in a rocket in the depths of space… This is a story which sounds like it should be the plot to a old black and white Hollywood movie, but it’s 100% true! A robot, named R2, has tweeted whilst out amongst the stars. Now we’ve [...]

The last year has seen few highs but many lows in UK politics. With no party outright winning the 2010 election, we managed to accidently elect a Conservative coalition government with a light sprinkling of Liberal Democrats for fun. The old two party system is dying on us. Political parties are starting to blur, the [...]