Facebook is no good for promoting events on its own

At the conference for Student Union Events Officers the other day I was asked if it’s a bad idea to promote an event solely via Facebook. I said yes, and gave a few reasons but I think it’s worth being a little more comprehensive. As I see it,

Picking a name - URLs and usernames

Although it’s not the be all, having a unique name for a project/event/whatever can be very useful indeed: * Being unique makes it easier for people to find you online, and * Using Google Alerts and the Social Media Firehose is an awful lot easier if you’re not

How to promote your night/gig/event online

This post accompanies a short talk I gave at a conference for Student Union Events Officers, arranged by CID Music.  I spoke about about how to use social media and online tools to promote events. My talk was only 20 minutes long so I rattled through many of the websites

Blog Action Day: Making the link

I’ve had a great evening. I’ve not long returned from the Birmingham Social Media Surgery held as part of Blog Action Day 08.  If you’re reading this there’s a fair chance that sentence makes sense to you.  If not, it was a chance for folk from

The best bit of Andrew Marr's 'My Trade'

My reading of newspapers is almost entirely informed (to the extent that I’m aware of it) by a single chapter from Marr’s ‘My Trade’.  Well, along with the excellent Ben Goldacre‘s writings. By the way, to the person that has my copy of the book – I know

Handing on Created in Birmingham

As I said in this interview with Localmouth, I put my involvement in CiB down to being in the right place at the right time and count my lucky stars for that. When Pete introduced me to the CiB readers he said that he’d lost interest in running the

Trip to the big tent (or 'What I did on my holidays')

As previously advertised, on Friday I made my way down to The O2 to have a nose about.  I was there to check out the filming of a new advert highlighting all the goodly things available at the venue (priority ticket booking, access to private areas, etc) if you’re

Blogging for the man

A couple of interesting things have been flung my way in recent days.  First up there was the invitation to the mobile phone-sponsored secret gig that I went to (and indeed blogged about) a couple of weeks back.  Now I’ve been invited to the Tory Party Conference and the

A WP plugin post. How lovely.

It’s a bit navel-gazing but, in answer to a request, here’s the list of plugins used on my blog.  Or at least hoarded just in case I need them one day. * AdSense Manager * Akismet * All in One SEO Pack * Audio Player * cformsII – contact form * FeedSmith * flickrRSS * Google Analytics

Links for 22 September 2008

Local Blogger of the Week: Chris Unitt of Created in Birmingham – Localmouth is a site that rounds up ‘placeblogs’. They were kind enough to ask me to do a short interview on what running CiB is like so I tried to cram as many links and refs to other people