I feel comfortable in the Social Progress office already, just as I did the day I had my interview. Janet and Becky remind me of my mum and my sister; whether that’s good or not I have no idea, but it feels familiar and I don’t feel out of place. The only thing that bothers […]Continue Reading

I’ll say it once, but I’m sure that I’ll say it another 1000 times before the end of the week. Asking people to ‘Like and Share’ is stopping your business being seen on Facebook. This is just a little unknown fact that every small business needs to know. There is a crucial reason why Facebook […]Continue Reading

Until now, the Social Progress Team has been well known to love #cake. It’s someone’s birthday – let’s have cake! We have a team meeting – let’s have cake! We’re out for lunch – let’s have cake! Clients have also been known to BRING us cake to some meetings and training! (It’s part of the […]Continue Reading

We’re sure that you’re aware that there’s been a lot of talk recently about the use of personal data from Facebook and Instagram and how this is shared with third party apps. There is no denying that Facebook is now desperately trying to harvest back some control and regain the world’s trust on what happens […]Continue Reading

Felix’s global popularity goes stellar It was announced earlier today and exclusively to Social Progress that the European Space Agency have allowed British Astronaut Tim Peake to take social media sensation Felix the Huddersfield Station Cat on his next mission to the International Space Station later today. Training has been completed, with Huddersfield’s favourite feline […]Continue Reading

What I’ve Learnt So Far: My top tips for working at Social Progress So I’m just coming to the end of my 2nd month as the ‘SoPro Newbie’ and have been asked to write a blog about my experiences so far, so here it is: Me I know more than I think I do (and […]Continue Reading

This is an interesting debate which includes one of Janet’s fellow Facebook ‘She Means Business’ Accredited Trainers, Dave Glenwright from JC Social Media about the recent allegations that 50 million Facebook users had their profile information harvested by Cambridge Analytica.      Now we’re not going to get into a debate about Cambridge Analytica or […]Continue Reading

If you’re active online, and who isn’t these days, you’ve very likely had an interaction with a chatbot. Don’t be afraid, but they are everywhere! We asked our resident ‘girl geek’, Mel Constantinou to explain about the latest social media technological integration, Chatbots! So here you have it…… “My latest tech challenge, I’m still waiting […]Continue Reading

Social media is buzzing with content but have you ever wondered what makes one post stand out from another or what makes a great social media post? Well we here at Social Progress decided it was time to do a little more digging into why visual content is king and what you can do to […]Continue Reading