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Simplifying Social Media With Spreadsheets – Part 1

by Steve Beavis | Jul 8, 2014 | Microsoft Office, Social Media

Here at Concise Training we love to use spreadsheets to organise work and to aid us in carrying this work out. In this series Steve will be looking at how you can use spreadsheets, specifically Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to make your social media management...

Social Media Policy and Training

by Mary Thomas | Jan 28, 2014 | Social Media

Do you have a Social Media policy for your business which explains what employees can do on social media and perhaps more importantly can’t do? Most businesses have an Acceptable Use policy – I would argue that a Social Media policy is just as important. A...

Beginners guide to Hashtags

by Mary Thomas | Jun 26, 2013 | Facebook, Google+, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

Hashtags have been used for ages on Twitter updates and Google+ updates and now they can be included on Facebook status updates. A quick beginners guide to hashtags…. What are Hashtags? Hashtags are a way of including a keyword within your status update. They...

5 LinkedIn changes – May 2013

by Mary Thomas | May 15, 2013 | LinkedIn

So during May 2013 LinkedIn made another set of updates – to round up the changes that are being rolled out at the moment: 1. Tags You can now mention or tag people and companies within a personal status update. This is similar to Facebook. By entering @Di in...

Interview with Craig Gordon

by Mary Thomas | Apr 19, 2013 | Interview

The fourth of our weekly interviews in which we discover how real businesses are making Social Media work for them. Please meet Craig Gordon from HRbullets.co.uk Who are you and what do you do? I am a publisher at HRBullets.co.uk. This is a subscription-based online...

Use of Social Media by consumer businesses

by Mary Thomas | Apr 16, 2013 | Facebook, Marketing, Social Media

I was on holiday in Amsterdam last week. Had a great family holiday in a beautiful city – though it was a bit cold! Whilst there, it was interesting to see how businesses were reaching out to me as a consumer, through the use of Social Media. QR Codes Many of...