Interesting Use of Social Media

by | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized

I don’t know if you have noticed that the Daily Telegraph Travel section have just started running a competition to ‘Win a Kindle’ during July.  It makes an interesting case study. The competition was mentioned in the Daily Telegraph Travel section...
How can I use LinkedIn News?

How can I use LinkedIn News?

by | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

LinkedIn News is a set of news feeds that appear on your LinkedIn home page or can be displayed on your smartphone LinkedIn app. The news displayed is selected from a large number of possible feeds, based on  and the number of people in your network that have shared...

Get Started with Business Blogging

by | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

Blogging is another tool in your Social Media Locker that you can use to share information and engage with your audience.  When you start to write your blog, consider the following: 1. Audience Central to all of your social media should be knowing your audience.  Who...
Excel – CountIF Function

Excel – CountIF Function

by | Mar 8, 2011 | Uncategorized

Have you ever looked at the CountIF function in Excel?  I think it is one of the most useful functions available for quickly analysing data – and it has become even more useful in the 2007 and 2010 versions of Excel. In its simpliest form, the COUNTIF function...

Analyse Your Data with Excel

by | Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized

I spent last week with a lovely company doing some Intermediate Excel training for their staff.  They were particularly interested in the different ways you could analyse a set of data – Excel 2007 has some different options so I thought a general summary might...

Changes to LinkedIn Profile

by | Oct 28, 2010 | Uncategorized

Have you noticed when you go to edit your profile on LinkedIn, there is a section just above your summary entitled ‘Personalize your profile’? This gives you the ability to add an additional five new profile sections to your profile: What are the new...