Getting started with social media
To help you get started with social media, we have assembled a range of interesting background reading on many aspects of this below:
- Perceptive Partners' views on social media in Sunday Herald
- What is social media?
- How to get started with social networking
- Top social networking sites
- Views on social media in the business to business market from emarketer
- Advice on social media policy
- How to write a social media policy
- 100 examples of social media policy
- How small businesses can use blogs effectively to promote their business
- Mashable's take on who owns social media
- Which companies have the most social media savvy employees
- Are we taking YouTube too far?
- Tips on building a social media policy with some examples from Kodak, Intel and IBM
- Rules of engagement for social media
How to make the most of social media
- Tips on getting your videos found online
- Ten myths about social media
- How to cut through social media noise and make an impact
- Prediction of online video explosion
- Mashable's guide to social media resources
- Social media resources you may have missed
- How to check what Google knows about you and your business
- Five ways to use LinkedIn to benefit your business
- How social media has prepared us for collaborative business
- How social media is changing advertising
- Social media for small businesses
- Using social media to promote and plan events cost effectively
- How to sell social media to your marketing department
- Making the most of customer testimonials on social media
- Mashable's advice on building a landing page on Facebook for your business
- Some trivia about Facebook from Mashable.com
- Facebook tips for non-profit organisations
- Facebook is the first thing checked by young women in the morning according to Mashable.com
- Facebook launches location features
- Creating a Twitter strategy
The fun stuff
- Social media and dating
- Use social media to help resolve your relationship issues
- How to ask someone out online
