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How to get retweets on Twitter

  It’s finally happened, you’re open for business. You want everyone to know, you run outside and yell at the top of your voice. Is that enough? No, but imagine if everyone who heard you began to do the same and so on and so forth. Your message gains traction,
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How to hashtag effectively for your business

‘Hashtagging’ is taking the social media world by storm and is a form of a metadata tag. It all started in 2006 when Twitter was launched. Since then, social media such as Facebook and Instagram, have jumped on the tagging band wagon. It’s important to get hashtagging right, as it’s
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How U ‘n’ I connect – How Universities are using Social Media.

For the hundreds and thousands of students out there, they will already know how social media is being used, maybe not by the Universities themselves, but by the people at them. Facebook pages are swamping cyberspace with many of the “Tell him/Tell her” University pages, Freshers pages and ‘Spotted’ style
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Social Media Case Study: B&Q

It’s unlikely that people would consider a strong link between the DIY store B&Q and the concept of social media, but as a company B&Q use social media to its full advantage. From communicating with customers to creating community groups; they even have their own blog that publishes interviews with
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15 Amazing 2013 Social Media Statistics

  There are over 1.19 billion active Facebook users worldwide, which is an 18 per cent increase year over year. I think it is fair to say that Facebook is one of the biggest social networking sites across the globe. Every second 8,000 users will like a photo on Instagram
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New Year’s resolutions for your social media habits

When the clock strikes midnight, we all hope and wish that the New Year will bring us another chance to start fresh, but how many of us cave on our crash diet by the end of the first week? Or cut-out the cardio workouts by day three? Well, it’s now
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The Tumblr Effect

  What is it? Founded in 2007 by David Karp and bought by Yahoo earlier this year, Tumblr is partly a micro blogging site and partly a social networking site. Tumblr is one of the top 15 websites in the USA with an impressive 146.5 million blogs published on the

Fight of the Film: Instagram Video vs Vine

    Twitter’s Vine app for short viral videos was a real first as iOS apps go, but is it still first in the battle for fans against Facebook owned Instagram Video? Created by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll in June 2012, Vine was snapped up by Twitter
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How to Make the Most of Social Media at Christmas.

  Once a year, around the beginning of November, we see our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds become cluttered with posts about how Christmas is coming! It seems to be common knowledge that when we see the extremely well branded Coca Cola advert embrace our television screens, Christmas is only
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How can social media be used to help you find a job?

  Applying for jobs used to mean sitting in the privacy of your own home, perfecting and printing your C.V. on posh paper, then firing it off to employers advertising in the local paper. Things have certainly progressed a little in recent years. If you haven’t already, set yourself up