February 2010 Archives - Simply Zesty

Are we having fun yet?

February 26, 2010 Leave a Comment @laurenfisher

Never forget that one of the massive benefits of social media is that you get to have fun. You get to take your branding and identify to completely new levels and engage with your users in a real way that gets them talking about you and, most importantly, remembering you.

A stunning new Irish blog

February 25, 2010 1 Comment @laurenfisher

There’s a brand new photography blog in Ireland, and it’s none other than our very own Sarah Kavanagh’s!

How To Vastly Improve Your Twitter Stream

4 Comments @niallharbison

Managing the people you follow on Twitter is not that easy and thanks to the way Twitter has been built it takes considerable effort to manage those people but there are a couple of tools that you can now use that will help you immensely. The key with Twitter is taking the time to build up your stream and tailor it to your own needs so as instead of having a load of useless waffle in there you have something that adds real value to you and constantly gives you the best information. Here is how to vastly improve your Twitter Stream…

Is this the future of advertising?

Technology February 24, 2010 1 Comment @laurenfisher

Could this be the future of advertising and the internet? An interesting look into the intrusion of brands and how intrusive they could be in our daily lives. It’s a scary looking future, that might not be so far from the truth.

Excellent Coca Cola Social Media Strategy Presentation

February 23, 2010 14 Comments @niallharbison

One of the smartest brands around and one of the quickest brands to embrace social media are Coca Cola and this presentation hits so many of the keys points that big brands need to be following around social media. The key areas are that you should treat Google as your homepage as that is where your consumers are looking for information around your product as well as the fact that you should be creating unique content to keep your fans engaged as well as looking at the bigger long term plan rather than thinking about campaigns. This is one presentation that is well worth having a look over…

5 Improvements Facebook Can Make To Massively Increase Revenues In 2010

Facebook February 21, 2010 2 Comments @niallharbison

Facebook is fast becoming the main stop for brands wanting to spend money on social networks and it is doing a lot right to attract those brands but I feel that they could just be doing so much more and I wanted to identify 5 key areas where Facebook could improve if it wanted to increase it’s revenues in 2010. You would have to think that they have plans in place to change most of these problem areas but here are the 5 ways in which I would love to see Facebook improve…

20 Social Media Blog Posts That Are Well Worth Bookmarking

Social Media Leave a Comment @niallharbison

There are tons of social media blog posts and there is lots of noise around the topic at the moment so rather than highlight blogs that you should be reading we thought we would share 20 blog posts that are worth bookmarking. These are blog posts that act as either “go to” resources or inspiration that you can check in on when needed. I often find people (readers of this blog or friends) asking me for advice and rather than having to write long winded replies I usually just give them a link to one of these posts which all have great information written by the relevant expert. Here are my 20 social media blog posts that are worth bookmarking…

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