ArchivesPosts Tagged ‘communities’

Do you use LinkedIn? It’s a rapidly growing platform and an incredibly powerful tool! Networking is important for building your business and connecting with people within your industry that can add value to you, your business and your network, so being able to do this online can be invaluable. A lot of the recent additions […]Continue Reading

On 2nd April 2019 Google officially pulled the plug on their own social media platform called Google Plus. You may or may not have heard of this Google product, that was initially late to the social media party… For those who don’t know much about the search engine’s own ‘social’ site, Google was a little […]Continue Reading

On Friday 1st March 2019, Janet and Esther travelled down to Facebook, London for a “Train the Trainer” Event as part of the “Facebook #SheMeansBusiness Programme”. Although Janet had been to the Facebook Partner Centre in London before, Esther experienced the social media giant’s London HQ for the first time. “It’s like the Willy Wonka […]Continue Reading

Have you heard about something called the Fyre Festival? Well, I hadn’t until recently. I walked past my husband watching something on Netflix that stopped me dead in my tracks – even though it only had 20 minutes left! My husband said “you’d be interested in this because it’s unbelievable what they achieved through using […]Continue Reading

It’s 2019, but this still happens far too much! What is Facebook spam? It might be that you know someone that is a serial Facebook status updater, but that’s up to them, and you can choose who your friends are…BUT, have you ever seen someone posting or sharing a competition that sounds too good to […]Continue Reading

For those of you who have gotten to know us since October last year you may not really know about SoPro Esther who’s actually been part of the Social Progress Team since 2015. She’s back after almost a year on Maternity Leave! Well, she’s actually been back over month now – how time flies! She […]Continue Reading

What is a #hashtag? Hashtags are used all over Social Media, it’s almost a sin not to use one now. Companies regularly create their own for their brand as well as advertising campaigns, so they  can gather momentum over time. They are usually keywords but can also be slogans and adding the # hashtag symbol […]Continue Reading

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 why they’re a good tool to use […]Continue Reading

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 an image, there’s a good chance you ignore the text that accompanies […]Continue Reading