Category Archives: Social Media
Training & Events Calendar
Whatever your training needs and wherever you are in Wales, there should be a training event coming to a venue near you. Stop Press: Anyone interested in a Photoshop course in Carmarthen? Software Alliance Wales is planning a 2 day … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Calendar, Copywriting, Innovation, Internet Security, legislation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, Still photography, Training, Trends, Video photography
Tagged digital training, tourism conferences, tourism training, tourism workshops, Wales tourism events
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Words or pictures?
Words of wisdom It is an interesting (and sometimes tedious) part of the Share Wales editor’s role to monitor the blogs and postings of digital gurus for tips, tricks, new developments and other useful information. Perhaps every business should do … Continue reading
Rural communities: The pub’s the hub
Local communities – bringing it all together It has been part of our mission to help small tourism enterprises create their own online space and develop their own, individual, content. Individual content differentiates one business from another, addresses the pre-occupations of selected … Continue reading
Something for the weekend …
The best coin ever spent … We just had to share this, which has been cropping up all over the place on Facebook. A small girl drops a small coin into a hat and unleashes five minutes of splendour in … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, Video photography
Tagged facebook, flashmob, YouTube
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Fruit of the Vine
At the end of January we wondered whether Vine, the video sharing app that integrates with Twitter, would stimulate imagination and offer another viable platform for instant posting and sharing. (See And now … instant video postcards). The six second … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Social Media, Trends, Video photography
Tagged instant videos, social video, twitter, Vine, Vine on Twitter
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Sizing images for social media
Good quality images attract instant interest. Over the past few weeks a number of topics have urged us to repeat the mantra: “It is in the interests of traders that their images and videos are shared as widely as possible, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Photography, Social Media, Still photography, Video photography
Tagged facebook, google, LinkedIn, pinterest, sizing photographs, social media, twitter, YouTube
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Why Facebook needs your photos
A question of attribution … Earlier this month we published “Instagram and other animals” in response to the furore created by a change to Instagram’s licensing conditions. Rumours were spreading that Instagram/Facebook were intending to profit from their users’ content … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Photography, Social Media, Still photography, Trends, Video photography
Tagged facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube
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And now … instant video postcards
The way ahead? Over the last months image sharing has been boosted (if a boost were needed) by the integration of basic photo editing apps with social sites, most notably by the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. Which prompts the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Social Media, Trends, Video photography
Tagged smartphone video, twitter, video sharing, Vine
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