Social Media

Facebook Chat Hack Virus

Posted by on June 23, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Today I was working away as usual and a customer came onto Facebook and said Hi and then told me he was away in London with the family and got mugged and needed help. A little strange as I know him, but didnt think we were at ‘That‘ stage of business that he would be [...]

Facebook facial recognition feature !

Posted by on June 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Yes, you may have heard the rumours that Facebook are now automatically “Tagging” photos of people who use this social network for image sharing. The Giant of social networking with an estimated 700 million users has a new feature to read an image and use facial recognition software to “Tag” or mark an individual. Big [...]

Facebook Live Updates!

Posted by on March 10, 2011 at 12:35 am

Anyone see the new feature on Facebook whereby they are updating the comments live on the page without the refresh the page. I was having a chat with a web designer in Leitrim called Leon Quinn when the comments were popping up live. Another demonstration that websites are living and breathing animals that are always [...]

Social Media Mum

Posted by on March 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm

I have a contact who is a Social Media Mum as she calls her self and if looking for work maintaining Facebook and Twitter accounts for small businesses in the Wexford area. She love Facebook and currenmtly runs campaigns for Driving schools and Florists etc. If you are looking for this type of service for [...]

Setting up a facebook business page?

Posted by on February 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm

Facebook is a Pub!

Facebook Places in Ireland

Posted by on February 4, 2011 at 7:11 pm

You may have noticed that Facebook has launched Facebook Places in Ireland. This feature was opened to the public yesterday but has been running in the USA and UK since last summer. “Check in” This is the term to allow users to show where they are and enter information about the place they are located. [...]

Twitter for Business

Posted by on December 16, 2010 at 12:47 am

They guys at twitter have launched a new business centre for twitter to help business get involved and start using it and understanding how they can benefit from it’ts use. So for all those questions that you wanted to know about twitter and what they hell is it etc then see the link below. http://business.twitter.com/

Facebook Fan or Friends Page?

Posted by on April 19, 2010 at 4:03 pm

Well this discussion has been going on for a while now as many businesses found that they didn’t like that Fan pages as the interactivity was very one way and that they felt that they only put announcements on their Facebook page but then they changed and set up a friends page that they had [...]

Facebook overtakes Google!

Posted by on March 16, 2010 at 8:58 pm

News today that Facebook have overtaken Google as the number 1 website in terms of visits according to “Hitwise”. This is something I was only giving a talk about today to a group of business people here in the south east. I was explaining that social media needs to be managed correctly by staff of [...]

Twitter facts and figures

Posted by on January 14, 2010 at 6:58 pm

I was browsing facebook and a friend of mine who works in a Media company in Sweden posted a link to a blog from a social media company in the UK. The post was about the percentage of tweets that contain brand names or organisation names. So what you may say,but like everything on the [...]

Social Media sites over take porn!

Posted by on October 28, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Yes it’s true, apparently news out this week shows that the Irish nation has embraced social media websites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, YouTube etc with such a vigor that now they are viewed more often than adult websites. I read recently on a blog run by the famous Damian Mulley that facebook has gone [...]

How to use Social Media websites!

Posted by on September 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm

A friend posted this on Facebook and it’s just great to see social media being used to bring an issue to the attention of management. This is what i mean by digital footprint, See how many people have view the video! click on the video to see it on YouTube and the Number of “hits” [...]

What are twitter and facebook all about?

Posted by on July 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm

This is a questions we get asked all the time, no matter if it’s on-line, via the office telephone or sitting at a family dinner table. What the hell is twitter and why would anyone be mad enough to upload “I’m having my lunch” as a statement on their twitter page. Let me explain how [...]

Understanding the internet

Posted by on April 27, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Understanding the internet One remark that comes up again and again is how “confusing the internet is”… Indeed the world wide web is such a vast virtual organism that its hardly suprising that many folks are stumped when it comes to applying the latest web technology such as blogs, you tube videos, flickr photos , [...]

Social Media Marketing

Posted by on November 6, 2008 at 9:52 pm

We’ve started on a new campaign for one of our clients in Galway. The college of hairdressing has approached us and asked us to develop a strategy for them to improve their online presence and go after their target audience online. We have started working on this project this week and will be keeping an [...]