Weymouth College was the venue one evening last week for a social media marketing event hosted by WSX Enterprise and Weymouth & Portland Chamber of Commerce. A vast quantity of sandwiches, quiches, tortilla crisps and dips were spread out for our consumption before the programme started, though sadly half of the food was still untouched at the end of the evening.
Three sessions, covering LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter were on the agenda but not, surprisingly, to be presented one after the other to all of us together. Instead, in a move probably designed to keep us awake by moving us around every 30 minutes or so, we were split into three groups and assigned to different rooms before moving on to the next room and the next speaker.
Anyway, the upshot is that on Friday I spent quite some time updating my already existing LinkedIn and Facebook accounts and then, with some trepidation, signed up for Twitter. Here, the boundaries between personal and business life become blurred, especially for those who, like me, are self-employed. Apparently, people really are interested to know that you've been somewhere to buy something or visit someone, or that the weather is particularly miserable or lovely wherever you are. Twitter for business is not all about "this is my product/service, please buy it" but being 'out there.'
Well, I'm 'out there' now, and my address is @SteedmanGillian because, (shock, horror!) there's already someone out there tweeting as GillianSteedman.
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