We don't know where 2012 went but Christmas is here already and soon it will be 2013. We've had a great year and we're confident that next year will be even better.
This week we had a lot of fun at our annual Christmas staff party at the Radisson Bristol's Filini restaurant (pictured above). We also enjoyed meeting Laura from the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust who won our Business West 'Meet the Chamber' prize draw champagne. Here she is collecting it from Ron Lee!
The GWS team has continued to be busy with a week full of meetings. Among the highlights were a meeting with a dynamic, forward-looking school in Wales, one with the brilliant Bristol artist Linda Alvis and a couple about App development projects.
We were also delighted to catch up with clients including Oasis heating and mechanical engineers and Pronto-pack who supply catering disposables for festivals, pubs and the food and drink industry.
Before we close for the holidays we'd like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful start to the New Year!
If you haven't got your New Year's resolutions yet, why not follow Heidi Cohen's 13 step blog checklist for making 2013 your best blog year ever. Like Cohen we believe that successful blogging is the result of persistence and careful planning. We also liked Cohen's 12 useful tips for curating your content to a satisfactory standard.
If you think the examples given in 4 Reasons Why Your Facebook Page Sucks sounds a little too close for comfort to company page at the moment then perhaps you need some inspirational assistance.
To help you get going, here are 9 fun Facebook examples of businesses that found ways to bring excitement to their pages.
Breaking News for Twitter Users:
Companies using Twitter might be interested to know that Followerwonk, a leading Twitter analytics tool just rolled out their new engagement metrics (yesterday).
These new metrics allow for much deeper crawling of Twitter users' timelines to provide more data and understanding of a user's audience, competitors and prospects. To learn more about this, head over to Pete Bray's summary on SEOMoz.
This week we had a lot of fun at our annual Christmas staff party at the Radisson Bristol's Filini restaurant (pictured above). We also enjoyed meeting Laura from the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust who won our Business West 'Meet the Chamber' prize draw champagne. Here she is collecting it from Ron Lee!
The GWS team has continued to be busy with a week full of meetings. Among the highlights were a meeting with a dynamic, forward-looking school in Wales, one with the brilliant Bristol artist Linda Alvis and a couple about App development projects.
We were also delighted to catch up with clients including Oasis heating and mechanical engineers and Pronto-pack who supply catering disposables for festivals, pubs and the food and drink industry.
Before we close for the holidays we'd like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful start to the New Year!
Businesses using social media - Have you made your New Year's
resolutions?
If you haven't got your New Year's resolutions yet, why not follow Heidi Cohen's 13 step blog checklist for making 2013 your best blog year ever. Like Cohen we believe that successful blogging is the result of persistence and careful planning. We also liked Cohen's 12 useful tips for curating your content to a satisfactory standard.
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| Image via Eva-Lotta Lamm |
As with blogging, a successful Facebook company page is almost always the consequence of a good, targeted strategy from the outset.
If you think the examples given in 4 Reasons Why Your Facebook Page Sucks sounds a little too close for comfort to company page at the moment then perhaps you need some inspirational assistance.
To help you get going, here are 9 fun Facebook examples of businesses that found ways to bring excitement to their pages.
Breaking News for Twitter Users:
Companies using Twitter might be interested to know that Followerwonk, a leading Twitter analytics tool just rolled out their new engagement metrics (yesterday).
These new metrics allow for much deeper crawling of Twitter users' timelines to provide more data and understanding of a user's audience, competitors and prospects. To learn more about this, head over to Pete Bray's summary on SEOMoz.
Art & Design:
Image via amusement.net
Moving back to the present day, how many of you knew that Harry Potter's invisibility cloak may not just be the stuff of fantasy? Visit amusement.net to learn more about a real life invisibility cloak manufactured by a camouflage design company in Canada.
If you felt inspired by the floppy disk Christmas tree decorations we posted in our weekly round up last week, perhaps you might also like this festive-inspired 'Chemistree'. With just 3 whole days left until Christmas, you might also have quite a bit last minute present buying and gift wrapping to do. On this note, we hope you'll like EcoChici's re-usable fabric gift wrap as much as we did. Could this be the Christmas present-wrapping path of the future?
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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