Why I’m Liking Posterous
When I heard about Posterous, I wondered if we really needed another social media platform. We already have Twitter for small posts and there are a ton of blogging and social bookmarking platforms out there for everything else. Being curious, I signed up for an account and checked it out. At that stage, this was pretty much all I did, I couldn’t see where Posterous would help me and with 3 blogs, 2 Twitter accounts and a Facebook account, I... [Read More...]
Social Media in Manufacturing
How can social media be integrated into a marketing plan for a manufacturing company that sells to other manufacturing companies? This post has been on my to-do list for a long time. When you bear in mind that I’m a social media enthusiast and a marketing manager for a manufacturing company, you’d think it would be easy. I should be the perfect person to use social media to market to my clients, most of whom are manufacturers themselves.... [Read More...]
Blog of the Week – Global Patriot
I came across Mark Lovett, the Global Patriot guy during the recent 12for12k 24 hour event. Mark has had a successful business career and now is devoting a lot of his time to helping others. Marks idea is that being a Global Patriot is different to being a National Patriot. While a National Patriot is concerned with people and events within a single country or region, the Global Patriot wants to do and create things that are good for everyone. As... [Read More...]
Blog of the Week – SEOMoz
If you are anything like me, you probably find the whole Search Engine Optimization (SEO) a bit of a mystery. Let’s face it, how many of us could claim to know our link juice from our Page Rank? Not too many I bet! It seems to me that getting one of my lame sites to actually show in Google (or other search engine) results is as much black magic as technique. What makes the whole thing even more frustrating is that for a business, getting good... [Read More...]
Tweetboard – Twitter conversations
If you use Twitter, you might have noticed that Tweetboard Alpha has been a (possibly rather annoying) trending topic of late. The developer has been using Twitter to get peopel to sign up for the alpha testing program. I’m not sure I like that kind of marketing, but it does seem to have worked – the developer 140ware has been overwelmed with requests try out the application. Tweetboard is actually a pretty clever idea, one I was tempted... [Read More...]
Social Media Icons
No self respecting blog is properly dressed without a nice set of Social Media icons. Totally Incorrect is no exception and I’ve been looking for a set of icons that would fit in with the design of my site. Not being able to find anything I really liked, I decided to make a set for myself. As you can see from the image above, my icons are designed to fit in with the thumbnail iamges I use on the homepage. The set consists of icons for Twitter,... [Read More...]
Social Media & the IT Guy
Social Media and the IT Guy People who market to businesses, (I really don’t like the expression B2B but I guess that’s what it is) often seem to complain that social media marketing techniques are not as successful as they are when marketing to consumers. I’m not sure this is totally true, especially if you include blogs as being part of social media, but it is a fact that there are not too many people in manufacturing spending a lot of time... [Read More...]
Blog of the Week – Kids are Heroes
OK, so Kids are Heroes might not strictly speaking be a blog, but I want to recognize it anyway. Kids are Heroes was set up my Gabe O’Neil and his daughter Mary Margaret and it strives to help young people do great things – become heroes! As I understand it, the idea for Kids are Heroes came from Mary Margaret and she was able to get her dad on board – I think she was 9 at the time so this is pretty cool. It was also rather fortunate... [Read More...]
Blog of the Week: Vlad Dolezal
According to Wikipedia, Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Ţepeş), or simply in Romainian Dracula (November/December 1431 – December 1476), was a Wallachian (present-day southern Romania) Voivode. Um, excuse me a second …… what’s that? Oh, wrong Vlad! Sorry about that; let’s start again. Vlad Dolezal is a blogger who lives in Leeds – life there is just as exciting as that... [Read More...]
Google Reader Widget
You might have noticed that I’ve been making some changes to the Totally Incorrect homepage layout. I’m trying to make everything easier to use and more – well more me. One of my passions is reading and learning (OK, that’s two passions but the two are strongly connected). As part of this, I’m a huge fan of Google Reader where I subscribe to lots of great blogs and other sources. For a while I’ve been wondering... [Read More...]
