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Free seminar at Venturefest Yorkshire

Liz Cable and Helen Whitehead from Reach Further often give free seminars and presentations at trade fairs, networking events and conferences.

The Balloon Principle: how to set your business soaring with social media - at Venturefest Yorkshire on Wed 10th Feb 2010 at 3.15 pm is free to attendees and you can book by contacting us, or  just turn up on the day.

 

Christmas Number 1 - A social media success?

Whether or not you like either of the two songs that have been battling out for the Christmas number 1 spot this week - and whether or not you watch the programme X-Factor, you probably haven't been able to miss the media coverage of the story. It seems to have been social media - in this case FaceBook - that facilitated the campaign for Rage Against the Machine to be the Christmas number 1. You could say that Jon and Tracy Morter, who started the campaign, have been incredibly successful and proved that a grassroots movement, with the help of social media, can topple the "establishment". Which is a good thing - probably...

I do wonder though if it's not just the good old British grump at work. This campaign wasn't about supporting a great song (it isn't, particularly), it was about halting the success of Joe McElderry (X-Factor winner) and sending a message to Simon Cowell. In other words it was acting out of a negative impulse - to stop something. Of course, I can appreciate the idea of challenging the automatic X-factor-equals-Christmas-number-one that has been the case for the last few years, and approve the idea of a genuine battle for number 1. But it would have been easier to put one's support behind a more worthy contender: the band are even signed to the same record company as Joe McElderry.

Merry Christmas from Reach Further

Liz, Helen, Mark, Maria, Lianne and Graeme at Reach Further would like to wish all our clients, partners and friends a very Happy Christmas. In the spirit of the season we are making available some seasonal Twitter backgrounds which you may like to try out on your Twitter page.

Happy Christmas

How to change your Twitter background

First save the background of your choice to somewhere on your computer’s hard disk

  1. Login to Twitter
  2. Click “Settings” towards the top right
  3. Under [Yourname] Settings click “Design”
Here you can select one of Twitter’s own themes, then add your own background image, and if you’re feeling really creative, you can choose your own background colour.

To simply change the background image:

  1. Click “Change background image” towards the bottom left
  2. Click “Browse”
  3. Browse to the background image you wish to use and click on it
  4. [In the case of the small tree image only you will need to tile it so that it repeats, so click next the box next to tile background]
  5. Click “save changes” in the Twitter window
  6. View your new Twitter page. If you don’t like it – try another background!

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