Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 30 public, private and voluntary organisations
Business - Twitter - Facebook - Linkedin - Google
A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. On the following pages we introduce you to the most popular business social networks.
Twitter is a networking service that allows you to send and receive short text updates. Its great way to get news alerts from your fellow twitterers.
The Birmingham Post has four twitter accounts providing updates on West Midlands News, Business, Culture & Lifestyle and Sport.
Facebook is the UK's most popular social networking website.
Facebook allows you to add your friends and business contacts and you can adjust your access levels to protect the contacts.
If you add the Birmingham Post as a friend on facebook and invite it to events, they will be promoted on the Post's Events Diary.
Google has a Business Calendar application. The Birmingham Post has a Business Diary based upon this resource which will help you keep up-to-date with events in the West Midlands.
If you have your own Google Calendar, you can add your events to the Birmingham Post or Digital Birmingham websites.
Linkedin is a website that can help you build your business contacts.
Users add contacts they have made "in real life" to form a network.
- An introduction to social networking.
- Twitter.
- Facebook.
- Google Business Calendar.
- Linkedin.
