Before we really got into the swing of things in the New Year, we decided to have a long weekend out of town. We decided on Paihia in the Bay of Islands as our getaway destination and it was well worth it. For Kiwis or visitors to NZ who haven’t been to the Bay of […]
We’ve all heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” and this is something that Twitter has taken to heart. The social network which is (or was) primarily text based recently introduced in-stream image and video previews. Prior to the change, users had to click on a link in order to view images […]
Just over half a year ago, I published statistics on the number of Kiwi’s signed up to the various social networks > New Zealand Social Media Statistics, March 2013. Given the amount of time that has gone by since then, it felt appropriate to revisit the numbers to see where things sit to date. The […]
Before the advent of Feedly as one of the more popular feed readers, there was Google reader. Google reader was a tool that I used on a daily basis to stay up to date with topics that I’m interested. It was also a tool that I used to find and share relevant content with via […]
We live in a day in age where information is literally at our fingertips! If i’m sitting at home and need to find out about something, all I need to do is pull out a laptop or tablet and search for ‘that’ information. If i’m out and about, that search is done on my phone. […]
HootSuite is my tool of choice for manage my social media properties. I recently took on a challenge to help a small non-profit with their social media presence. One of the tools that I recommended they use was HootSuite because of the various functionalities that it provides. One the things that this non-profit has is […]
Early this morning, my sites were down and after a bit wondering as to what could be going on, I put it down to a hosting issue. I took to Twitter to investigate and lo and behold, not only HostGator (Ninetynine Ways’ hosting provider) but Bluehost and HostMonster were experiencing outage issues. The issues were […]
Facebook is undoubtably amongst the top social media platforms that can really help grow a business. In order for that to happen, besides having a presence on Facebook, businesses need to be using it effectively in order to realise their social media marketing goals. There is a wealth of knowledge on the world wide web […]
I’m a person who believes that we learn something new every day. A little while ago, my lesson for the day was learning a new word; In a nutshell, meformation can be defined as “me” content, where almost all the content you share across your social networks is about you. I’ve been thinking about that […]
