social media

what a difference a fortnight makes….

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

Photo courtesy of Elton Harding

Photo courtesy of Elton Harding

Been off on hols for two weeks only to find that if you turn your back for a minute, by the time you look  around again, the economy has taken a few more heavy-footed steps towards disaster…….XL popped its clogs leaving me and a couple of hundred other holiday makers stranded and out of pocket….Alitalia is allegedly on the brink of bankruptcy but the sniff of an oilrag is keeping it flying…..Lehman is no more…..Merrill got bought……the women of Alaska have found their voices opposing  Palin….lots of events I wanted to go to happened and the world and his dog wants a PR agency/proposal. I picked a busy fortnight to go away it seems….note to self – go away in September again next year 🙂

Closer to home, my copy of David Brain‘s book arrived and he is now lying on top of Jackie Collins on a coffee table in my lounge ( #thingsithoughtidneversay )

And finally, not known to rest on their laurels, the Ruder Finn team have been yammering away all week and I logged on see various invites to another new network sitting in the inbox ….off to give it a whirl….

Holiday was ace by the way…

just a blip?

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

I stumbled across the latest site to be obsessed with this weekend via a number of Twitter feeds….blip.fm.

At first I just groaned, seriously questioning whether I have time for anything else digital but over the course of yesterday, I blipped a few tracks and started following a few familiar faces and it is definitely growing on me.

So what is it? In short, it is like the secret love-child of Twitter and Last.fm…

A music sharing site where you post short messages (like tweets…but called blips) with a track attached. The timeline builds up a story accompanied by music documenting your friends’ day. You play the timeline and have music on all day selected by your friends.

You can upload your tunes and give people cred (called props) based on what you think to their tunes.

You can also link it last fm but I don’t know how so check their FAQ for that.

Oh and you can send your blips to other soc networks like Twitter etc too…which frankly I find annoying but hey, just my opinion!

Anyway, blip me here and decide what you think.

twitter karma

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

If ever there was a network for reaping what you sow, Twitter seems to be it. In just the last month, I have had several great opportunities (spanning recruitment, new business and a couple of great job briefs that I obviously passed onto friends 😉 ) all through contacts I have made solely through the platform as a result of being interested, listening and being involved.

Articulating the benefits of twitter is not always easy as I found when trying to convince an old PR friend of mine this afternoon but my top three would have to be:

1) Community (the banter and craic is really important to me as someone who works remotely a lot)

2) Knowledge (am loving the interaction and stuff I am learning from peers and journos alike)

3) Karma (what’s not to love?)

Putting the time in to respond to people’s tweets, listening, helping with requests and genuinely being nice seems to really pay off in the social networking world. Not so different to real life after all…