Tag: Facebook

  • 100 Days to Change // Day 1

    100 Days to Change // Day 1

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    January 1 2016 – Happy New Year!

    The day didn’t get off to the best start to be honest. I’ve had a horrible cold for a few days, which seemed to keep me awake for ages, meaning I slept ’til lunchtime. It also rained all day which is never great to give you the get up and go that I had hoped for. Couple this with an annoying cough and you get the drift.

    So as it was going to be an indoor, take it easy day, I decided to do a social media cull. So in what way is this making life better I hear you ask?.

    Well, I use Facebook, primarily to keep up with family and friends and for my radio show, so I left that alone. Personally, I prefer Instagram and Twitter but it’s easy to add random people to who you follow.

    It took a couple of hours, while sitting on the couch, but using Crowdfire app, I went through who I was following that I didn’t really need to be, and had no interaction with and unfollowed. With a couple of hundred less people followed, it’s easier to see what’s going on in your main timeline. It’s not as busy. Next job on Twitter is to add people are are not already in lists into appropriate lists so it’s easier to follow, social media tips, music, radio etc.

    A lot of people seem to think that the way to reorganise themselves on social media is to step away completely for a while. For me, using it for work and for my radio show, as well as keeping up to date with the Irish Crew, that’s not an option. So what I wanted to do was to get rid of a lot of noise and already I can see the difference.

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    Quiche – Tastes better than it looks!
    My timeline isn’t as mental, friends on Twitter don’t get caught up in all the spam.. I’m happy so far!

    Oh, I also made a absolutely yummy quiche for the first time in my life.. doesn’t look too pretty but tastes yummy! Hurrah for achievement number 1 of the year!

    So that’s Day 1 down, yes, I eased my way into it. Here’s to the next 99 Days of Change.

    Happy New Year, here’s to a happy, healthy, productive 2016.

    Leo

  • It’s Miller Time! – The New Social Media Hub

    Miller TonightLast week I was asked if I would be into testing out a new Miller website, itsmillertimeuk.com Basically what Miller have done is come up with a hub that intergrates with Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, allowing the user to pre-check into venues on their site and then invite their friends for a pint. Basically it’s an online way of getting your mates together in a pub.

    When you first log into the site, you are given the opportunity to login in with Facebook and also Foursquare and Twitter. Once you choose Dublin as your city, you are given a map with some circles. These circles indicate how many locations are within that area. When you zoom in and click on a particular venue, the hub gives you an option to check in, and tell your friends where you’re going that night.

    When you do check in and invite your friends, you do this through Facebook, clicking on their profile pictures as with any invite for Facebook. It also gives you the option of emailing your friends with a note saying where you’re off to that night. I didn’t like this, I’ve already given some Facebook details and passwords to use the hub. The last thing I then want to hand over is the password to my email account thanks. (more…)

  • Internet for Bands: 101

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    It still baffles me sometimes at how bands use or don’t use the internet. If you are in a band then it means you want to get your name out there. To be honest this could be for any artistic types but it seems that bands have shouted the loudest to get themselves heard.

    The internet has made it so easy for artists to get their wares to the outside world but the technologies that have allowed us to do this also means anyone can do it.  But its important though, even before anything goes online to make sure that the material you are uploading is the best you can make.

    1. Quality Control:

    Ten, fifteen years ago , there is no way a band, even a small garage band would record something in the morning and release it that afternoon. Unfortunately that happens now and it means there is less Quality Control on what reaches cyberspace.. what do I mean?
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  • Social Media to the Rescue

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    Last night myself and a college buddy were chatting outside our beloved school of intellectual enlightenment. It was getting late and we said our farewells.

    I turned towards the pedestrian lights to cross the road and spotted a wallet on the ground in front of me. I looked around to see if the owner was near but there was no one around. I checked inside, saw a name, bank cards and some cash. Why do we never put our own number in our wallet?

    I saw the owner was a student but not in our college.. I’d just have to left a message at their college reception for them.

    I got home, had another look to see if there was an address or a number and decided to tweet if anyone knew the person. I then went to Facebook and did a search for the person.

    I found both them and their boyfriend, sent a message and got a reply a couple of hours later. I had also got two replies from Twitter, with contact details for the person.

    The wallet was returned to the owner 14 hours after I found the wallet.

    Yay for social media!