Just a quick note to say that we have posted our first ever 'lens' on Squidoo...
www.squidoo.com/bvgroup
Thursday 27 August 2009
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Our First Post
Hello!
Well, please bear with me on this blogging thing - this is my first post... ever (personally and on behalf of B & V)! We (Jill and I - who make up the entire Marketing Department here) have fought the blogging bug for months now and have finally buckled under the pressure (read on to find out how we were finally persuaded!). Blogs seems to have exploded, and everyone who is anyone is talking about them. We're not usually ones to fall behind and so have decided to try everything... Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Squidoo... If nothing else comes from all this, at least I'll have had a lot of practise in talking about B & V!
Talking of talking, I plan to have a word with our lovely web designer (check out www.hunterdesign.co.uk) to try and get this blog somehow attached to our website... At the present time I feel I'm writing to no one! I'm not sure if I'm grateful or not for that at the moment as I'm not entirely sure what people will want to read. At the moment I have the following vision for this little space - videos (if we can find a single person out of the 73 or so employed by B & V who isn't camera shy, which is proving far more difficult than I ever would have expected... Having said that, I was the first person to say "No."), pictures and updates of events, products and interesting things that happen. I aim to update this every couple of days. I'm not sure if that's too often or not, but I'll soon find out! The first few of these might be absolute rubbish - experimenting is a dangerous business, I think.
I'll take this opportunity to explain what gave us the final push into the blogging world....
Jill and I regularly attend Business Link eBusiness Club training events. For those of you who do not have the pleasure of knowing what these are, I will explain briefly. They are free events funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the EU and ran by Business Link and (I think) the Chamber of Commerce. Put simply, they are amazing for small and medium businesses. Jill and I have been blown away by the quality of these events and have taken so much away every time. After each one I walk out the room and am itching to get back in front of my computer to implement all the ideas I've had after attending one. We'd be light-years behind if not for them. Which is why we were very upset (and somewhat alarmed) to learn that they might be coming to an end. If you'd like to support the continuation of the eBusiness Club Events please sign the petition on Susan Hallam's website - http://www.shcl.co.uk/blog/2009/07/east-midlands-ebusiness-club-funding.html.
Back to the point, however. Today we attended the What Works On the Web breakfast briefing in Northampton, hosted by Susan Hallam, who we were hugely impressed with. She gave everyone 60 tips in 60 minutes, and was so persuasive, honest and genuinely nice that when she said the words "blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, LinkedIn", we happily nodded our heads, came back to the office and did exactly what she said.
Which is why you can now find us in lots of places! If you're on any of the above, please take a look at our profiles or accounts and, if you're even remotely interested in anything we have to say, add us/subscribe/whatever else it is that these sites like you to do. Also, if anyone is an experienced blogger, tips and tricks would be appreciated!
That's it for now!
Siobhan
http://www.bvwater.co.uk/news.php?id=18
Well, please bear with me on this blogging thing - this is my first post... ever (personally and on behalf of B & V)! We (Jill and I - who make up the entire Marketing Department here) have fought the blogging bug for months now and have finally buckled under the pressure (read on to find out how we were finally persuaded!). Blogs seems to have exploded, and everyone who is anyone is talking about them. We're not usually ones to fall behind and so have decided to try everything... Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Squidoo... If nothing else comes from all this, at least I'll have had a lot of practise in talking about B & V!
Talking of talking, I plan to have a word with our lovely web designer (check out www.hunterdesign.co.uk) to try and get this blog somehow attached to our website... At the present time I feel I'm writing to no one! I'm not sure if I'm grateful or not for that at the moment as I'm not entirely sure what people will want to read. At the moment I have the following vision for this little space - videos (if we can find a single person out of the 73 or so employed by B & V who isn't camera shy, which is proving far more difficult than I ever would have expected... Having said that, I was the first person to say "No."), pictures and updates of events, products and interesting things that happen. I aim to update this every couple of days. I'm not sure if that's too often or not, but I'll soon find out! The first few of these might be absolute rubbish - experimenting is a dangerous business, I think.
I'll take this opportunity to explain what gave us the final push into the blogging world....
Jill and I regularly attend Business Link eBusiness Club training events. For those of you who do not have the pleasure of knowing what these are, I will explain briefly. They are free events funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the EU and ran by Business Link and (I think) the Chamber of Commerce. Put simply, they are amazing for small and medium businesses. Jill and I have been blown away by the quality of these events and have taken so much away every time. After each one I walk out the room and am itching to get back in front of my computer to implement all the ideas I've had after attending one. We'd be light-years behind if not for them. Which is why we were very upset (and somewhat alarmed) to learn that they might be coming to an end. If you'd like to support the continuation of the eBusiness Club Events please sign the petition on Susan Hallam's website - http://www.shcl.co.uk/blog/2009/07/east-midlands-ebusiness-club-funding.html.
Back to the point, however. Today we attended the What Works On the Web breakfast briefing in Northampton, hosted by Susan Hallam, who we were hugely impressed with. She gave everyone 60 tips in 60 minutes, and was so persuasive, honest and genuinely nice that when she said the words "blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, LinkedIn", we happily nodded our heads, came back to the office and did exactly what she said.
Which is why you can now find us in lots of places! If you're on any of the above, please take a look at our profiles or accounts and, if you're even remotely interested in anything we have to say, add us/subscribe/whatever else it is that these sites like you to do. Also, if anyone is an experienced blogger, tips and tricks would be appreciated!
That's it for now!
Siobhan
http://www.bvwater.co.uk/news.php?id=18
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