As a business, you may be on various Social Media platforms and try to use them to connect to your primary audience in different ways. If you’re already on Instagram, have you gotten involved in stories yet? If not, maybe you’re still waiting for someone to tell you...
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Photos for Social Media: why being fussy is worth the effort!
Social Media is becoming more and more a visual experience. Instagram is the fastest growing platform out there and continues to dominate with the introduction of Instagram Stories and now, IGTV (Instagram TV). When you’re scrolling through any social feed and you see...
My First Two Weeks at Social Progress as #TheNewGuy
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...
Take Control of Your Social Media
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...
Eat Less Cake, Get More Active! Race For Life 2018
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...
Facebook Privacy Settings: Protecting Your Profile
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...
European Space Agency & Felix the Huddersfield Station Cat team up in Human / Feline Space trial
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...
What I’ve Learnt So Far: My top tips for working at Social Progress
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 more people!)...
Which Third Party Apps Have Access To Your Facebook Profile?
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...
Does My Business Need A Chatbot?
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,...