My Blog

As most of you know, due to changes at our old venue, Enterprise HQ, Coalport Jelly stopped in November and we were waiting to see whether we would be able to restart it at the new Telford Urban Hub during 2012 which is under development. I was thinking of having a few months off from [...]

I’m delighted to announce that my company, The Net Advantage, has been asked by Shropshire Chamber to deliver Social Media training workshops during 2012. The first 8 workshops are now live and full workshop content is available via the Shropshire Chamber website. The aim of these workshops is to provide advice and hands on training [...]

I have a pet peeve to share with you – businesses using a Facebook personal profile as their official business presence … it’s wrong so STOP IT (please). I’ve seen countless examples where they have amassed hundreds or thousands of ‘friends’ and they don’t realise what the price is that they may end up paying. [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve never seen so much abuse aimed at Facebook for the ream of changes they have made in a very short space of time (ticker, open social apps, timeline to name but a few!). Partly due to too many changes too quickly, partly down to Facebook assuming we really want [...]

I’m going to share with you my biggest gripe on LinkedIn – people connecting with me and not making an effort when they do – ring any bells? Zero effort = zero return in my book. I’ll also discuss how you can make the most of connection requests you receive.   Inviting people the right [...]