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This Year’s Most Disturbing Halloween Hashtag

  Halloween can be a scary time. Not because small people knock on your door covered in blood and threaten you for sweets – for some reason we’ve long come to accept that practice as commonplace. What we mean is that it can be a scary time in the world
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Getting Going with LinkedIn: 2. Building your Network

LinkedIn is the go-to Social Network for most professionals and job-seekers. It’s understandable that some of us have apprehensions about setting yourself up – and it can also be unclear about what steps to take after you have created a profile. In our previous article in the Getting going with
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“Anybody seen Tom…” What happened to Myspace?

  Between the years of 2005 and 2008 it was the largest Social Networking site in the world and in June 2006 exceeded Google as the most visited site in the US. At that point it needed no introduction. Now it does. It’s Myspace. In its hey-day, Myspace was the
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Social Media And The Right To Be Forgotten

  The “Right to be Forgotten” ruling, regarding the removal by search engines of certain information pertaining to an individual or organisation if such information could be deemed inaccurate, irrelevant, inadequate or excessive, has had it’s fair share of air time recently. While the ruling focuses on holding search engines
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Google Wants To Have Your Cake And Share It

  Google looks hungry to tap into the world of photo sharing as a new feature on Google maps prompts you to share your dinner with the rest of the world.  It seems what was a common frustration to the world of hospitality, is now fast becoming a fad that

How To Interact Like A Social Media Boss

  One of the most successful ways to build your professional network in the digital world is through Social Media. Get it right and you will find your brand is more widely known both in your industry and beyond. For business, Social Media is all about interaction and about gaining

How To Get A Job With Social Media

  It has become a bit of a cliché that if you’re looking for a job, you want to make sure your Social Media presence is at the very least refined. You don’t have to spend long in the magical world of job seeking before somebody points out that the

How Do Blockbuster Movies Use Social Media?

  It’s summer and so we are knee-deep into blockbuster season already. So far, we’ve had Jurassic World, Minions, San Andreas, Pitch Perfect 2, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Tomorrowland: A World Beyond to name but a few. With all of these huge titles jostling for prime position in viewers

How Social Media Has Impacted On The Way Disasters Are Handled

  Instant social mediums like Twitter and Facebook have proved invaluable in the development of channels that not only support communication during natural disasters, but have proved their worth by innovating and encouraging social efforts in disaster response… With a staggering estimated 258 million affected by natural disasters worldwide every

If Social Networks were Popular Holiday Destinations

  Obviously, we’ve all found ourselves wondering which social networks tally up with popular holiday destinations. It’s a natural thought progression. So, where will you go on holiday today?! Facebook Facebook is Spain. It just is. Everyone has been there. Whether they’ve been to the tourist bits (the memes that