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MyBdaily brings social networking to bdaily news bulletin

January 18, 2012 in News Roundup

Si Bales is the Managing Director of bdaily.

Bdaily is looking to re-invent business-to-business networking by combining social networking with their popular North East business news bulletin bdaily.

Titled MyBdaily, the new site offers members a supportive online business community that is dedicated to answer the needs of the business network.

“Bdaily was started to service businesses and the people within them”, bdaily Managing Director Si Bales said.

“Delivering daily business news, relevant to the individual reader as well as offering a more appropriate online channel to promote, connect and profile businesses with others through a deeper, richer experience.”

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Google takes giant leap into social search with Search+

January 10, 2012 in News Roundup

Google has taken a major step towards relevant social search results with the announcement of Search+ this week.

Search+ provides users with the option of ‘Personal Results’ – a unique search results page combining content from people you’re connected to on Google+ with other relevant search results from across the web.

“Just as in real life, your friends’ experiences are often so much more meaningful to you than impersonal content on the web”, Google wrote on their blog.

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Digital Matters: Marketing your own Business

December 23, 2010 in Events

MDDA’s Business Development programme
Event One:  Marketing your own Business
Date: 19 January 2011
Venue: Madlab, Northern Quarter, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN
Cost: Free

The event will commence with speakers from the sector who will share their knowledge and experience on improving their business approach to activities suitable to find new businesses and generating additional leads.

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UK’s first 'social media in the workplace' study published

November 17, 2010 in News Roundup

policyThe impact of social media on the British workplace has been documented in a ‘landmark’ paper.

Working in partnership with University of Leicester, MyJobGroup.co.uk has analysed the responses of 1,000 UK adults to questions covering a broad range of topics relating to social media use in the workplace.

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Definition: Sneezer

August 18, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Definition

Sneezer is an online marketing slang term coined by Charles Nicholls, founder of SeeWhy, to describe any customer that spreads your offers and promotions through social networks.

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Beyond 2010: Harnessing The Influence of Social Media

August 18, 2010 in Events

Date: Sept 20th 2010
Venue: The Point, Lancaster County Cricket Club
Cost: £55+VAT for students to £325+VAT full price. Early bird discounts available

Vision+Media are proud to be marketing partners of this new event bringing some of the best creative and digital minds to discuss and debate strategy, social media strategy and where digital media will go beyond 2010. The event is brought to the North West by Brainfood and in association with How-Do.

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Is location-based social networking the next big thing?

June 23, 2010 in Features

geolocation_worldFacebook and Twitter have allowed people to share details of their private lives on a completely different level to what we knew before.

Now, the web is set to offer us the chance to let others know where we are at any particular time. Geo-location services have started to gain momentum with social media blog Mashable reporting Foursquare nearing 1 million check-ins per day in May.

Services, such as Gowalla or Foursquare, allow users to check in in a particular location – for example, part of a city or a conference venue – and see who else is there.

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Quit Facebook Day Not Raging Success

June 3, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup

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International Quit Facebook Day came and went, without making a dent into the user-base of the fantastically successful social networking site.

The brainchild of two Toronto-based developers, Joseph Dee and Matthew Milan, the idea behind Quit Facebook Day was to send a message about privacy and control to the often controversial Facebook, following it’s recent privacy hoo-haa.

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