Weekly Round-Up: Social Media Apps & Stats, SOPA update and the New Design Museum

Fabulous edible type by m-inspira via @laughingsquid

This week seems to have shot by with a full round of networking events and meetings. We're delighted to have started work on promotion for a health and safety consultant, as well as carrying on with design work for Brace, a charity raising money for research into Alzheimer's.

Bristol is all abuzz with events this week, ranging from the Slapstick Festival celebrating silent comedy which started yesterday to the MShed's Chinese New Year events over this weekend. We're continually refreshed to see how active and creative Bristol is, and we've also been enjoying looking through photos for our Bristol Unique Guide (and sharing some of them on Twitter).

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How to develop your Twitter presence: voice

As we mentioned in a previous post, one of the topics we would be focusing on this year is social media marketing, and more specifically, tips on how to develop your Twitter presence. We thought we would kick this off with one of the more fundamental, but perhaps hardest, aspect of presence.

The development of your 'voice' on Twitter is crucial to determining the tone of your interactions and communciations on this social media platform. It is something that you need to think about in relation to all aspects of social media, but is particularly important to Twitter, which has a much more conversational tone built into it. However, establishing the tone of your brand or company can be quite difficult, especially if there are multiple people tweeting for the company (one way to approach this issue might be to have each person sign their tweets, thus transparently signalling who is saying what rather than trying to stick to a single 'voice'). We've come up with some tips to help with establishing your business' 'voice' on Twitter.

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Weekly Round-Up: Social Media Success, SOPA and Tech predictions of 2012

Loving this Movies from an Alternative Universe poster series

Thanks to everyone who has given us feedback on the blog over the past couple of weeks - if you've got any suggestions for features that would be useful to you, please do let us know.This week we've been enjoying a cold and sunny Bristol (blue monday? Not here), with plenty of meetings and a Bristol Business Networking lunch. We've also been working on promotion for clients, including Prom Dress and occasion wear specialist, Drop Dead Gorgeous  and Bristol Bed and Breakfast provider, Downlands House.

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