Archive | Social Media

The power of tweeting blog posts

So we have a great blogging property; it’s probably the best blog in the UK asset management space. It’s good because it’s well written, timely and focuses on market opinion – and doesn’t try to sell the firm or the product set. It’s been attracting good email subscription rates, good traffic and moderate RSS subscribers.  Read more »

Xobni for Gmail BETA

This has been out for a while but I just received a ‘it’s nearly here’ email that reminded me about the service. I like plug-in CRM tools – I don’t need a stand-alone service but it’s nice to have a tool that tells you more about your contacts and in my case remind me that  Read more »

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

LinkedIn recently started promoting their new Share button. It’s pretty much like Facebook ‘Like’ for grownups. I haven’t put any of these buttons on a site yet – I’ll look at adding them as part of overall social share buttons. But alongside the LinkedIn ‘Follow’ buttons they do start to really help with promoting your  Read more »

Six core tactics for social media managers – Econsultancy

Six core tactics for social media managers – Econsultancy

Some sensible thoughts from Matt Owen at Econsultancy. We’ve been starting small and careful at www.twitter.com/investecam_uk and we’re seeing steady growth. In particular we’re concentrating on quality followers so that we’re confident that the content we tweet is hitting the people it’s relevant for. It’s important to just start participating and see it where takes  Read more »