Progress – Week 10

Just as I thought, the social media pages have suffered while I have been working on the e-book. But, as it is coming up to the deadline I want a draft of the book to be completed by the end of this week. While doing further research for the e-book, I have found some very …

Progress – Week 9

After a good week on Facebook last week, this week isn’t great. The Facebook struggle seems to have little return on investment. Whereas I have found new contacts potential collaborators on Twitter, this has not been the case on Facebook. Once I get to the end of this project, and reevaluate my social media strategy, …

Progress Week 8

Facebook Finally, I’m making progress with Facebook. My likes have increased in line with the predictions (based on previous weeks). The only area that has decreased is the video views. So, this week I’m going to take the time to plan a video. I followed the 80/20 rule and it has worked very well. My …

Progress – Week 7

Progress – Week 6

As I didn't get back from holiday until part way through this week, I found it hard to catch up. I only scheduled posts up to Monday, when I did not have time to schedule posts properly until Wednesday. In future, I will make sure I have posts scheduled up to three days after I …

Progress -Week 3-5

I planned on keeping a weekly diary of my 'Health Matters, Social Media Matters' project. But so much time has been spent on the blogging that I haven't managed this, regrettably. So now I'm going to look at the past 4 weeks of work in one (probably very long) blog post. Week 2 I last …

Progress

My project has been running just over a week and things are going well. The Facebook and Twitter pages have been set up, and I also created the blog late last week. I’ve chosen Monday as the day to look at analytics and take note of my successes and failures of the week. Facebook As …

New Project – New Reason to Blog

My blogging always seems to taper off when I’m not working on a specific project. But here we are. It's project time! Health Matters, Social Media Matters For my final Ma project I am setting myself up as a social media consultant. More specifically, I am creating a space where health professionals can learn how …

Differing Social Media Strategies

Over the last couple of weeks I've been looking at the social media strategies of different organisations. It has been very interesting to see how in-house social media teams work. Last week I went on a little field trip to the headquarters of Virgin Trains, and this week we had a guest speaker, Guy Evans,  the …

Alt Britain Update: Inviting people to Like Your Page

This week I haven't done any experimenting on AltBritain. I have been spending time researching engagement and encouraging new likers. We just can't seem to make it over 30 fans. During my research I discovered something small, but useful.>>here<< When you create a page on Facebook, the first thing you tend to do is invite …