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Just made it to the top 100 European Marketing Blogs and wanted to share that with you, obviously we will climb the chart right?

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Social Media Best Practices

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A bit off topic, but I’ve been tagged by Dan Thorthon with a writing project about finding the best practices in social media. The project was started by Mitch Joel at Six Pixels of Separation.

It is obviously very intriguing, therefore I’ll give my effort.

I loved Dino’s reply, as well as the one of the almighty Chris Brogan.

My suggestions:

Be Real

Do not talk like advertising

Engage with people in the same fashion you would at a conference or next to a buffet.

Be Opinionated

Try to avoid all the rethorics and just go right to the point, possibly displaying an opinion. Giving other’s opinion is a good thing, it will help your linking strategy, but try to have your view and make sure that everyone around know what you are about.

Be Personal

Within your community start talking by using first names and avoid using “Dear reader”.

Be Protective

Protect your audience, get rid of spammers and naggers

Now the fun part. I am tagging Alina, Cece, Andrew, Rob and Vero

How this blog changed my career

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This blog started as a hobby in April 2007. At the time there were very few blogs about the subject. A year and a half later I find myself with a new job thanks to this blog and I am very happy to share that with you.

Without the thousands of readers and the popularity of the community built around the blog none of this would have been possible and the biggest ‘thank you’ goes to You reading this post.

Long story short, I got in touch with the great guys at amiando and I am now in charge of supporting the product, both online and in the UK. I would have never worked for a product that I do not believe in and amiando really nailed the issues with event platforms, firstly by listening to its customers.

What does that mean for the blog? Nothing much.

This blog remains advertising free. I’ll be talking about amiando when there will be a reason to do so and with the usual tone.

I invited you in the past to join the Linkedin Event Planning and Management Group. Most of the merit of this achievement goes to the group. I strongly invite you to join as there are other opportunities out there and in time of recession you definitely want to find new ways to improve your career or your business.

If you want to meet me to discuss further the matter, I’ll host a networking event called ‘Linked in London‘ where top professionals from Linkedin will participate, come along and mention this post, we’ll have a chat.

Thank you

Julius

How to beat the summer (blogging) slump

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I’ve been tagged and although I tried to dodge it in the past it seems like it’s about time to participate. Cece Lee from PR meets Marketing got me into this.

4 things you like about summer:

- If you are in London it’s around 20°C (68°F) and having experienced 48°C (118°F) it’s a blessing

- If you are hosting an outdoor event you probably won’t get rain

- Swimming

- Long Daylight

4 of your favorite vacation destinations:

- Greece

- Thailand

- Paris

- Santa Monica

4 of your favorite summer foods:

- Ice cream

- Hummous

- BBQ fish

- Tzaziki

4 concerts not to miss:

- Live Jazz, whenever, wherever

- Gotan Project

- Paolo Conte

- We will Rock you, London

4 things to avoid during the summer:

- live in Southern Italy, it gets very hot and if you are working it’s bad

- rely on the fact that it is summer and you won’t get rain on your outdoor event

- taking London Tube, it’s better to BBQ yourself

- locking yourself in your place, just go out and enjoy

Now the best part, I have to choose 4 other victims and I thought of Carmen, Alli Gerkman, Rose and Rob

Good luck guys and no excuses!

Twitter and event management

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I could write a very long post about Twitter but Ally summed it up very well and talked about ways you can use Twitter in your event.

I know for a fact you read blogs about events. Maybe you want to follow what people working in events share or think about events management. Twellow is a directory of Twitter users which categorizes them according to their interests.

We finally have an Event Management category and it’s a great way to see what other event peers are up to.

This is my Twitter account and I’ll be very happy if you start following me!