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Using Social Media is a great way to connect with your customers, spread the word about your brand and maintain conversations with the people that matter in your industry. Social Media platforms are also a great place to help you get more links to your site.
Good quality links to your site are still an important part of Search Engine Optimisation. In very simple terms, if you can get links to your site from other relevant and well ranked sites (otherwise known as authority links), you will get your site higher on Google and the other search engines.
Thankfully, as well as being great for networking, Social Media can also help you get other people to link to you. It’s a question of finding these people – your linkerati - and giving them content that they will want to link to.
This simple 3-step guide covers how to get more links to your site by finding your linkerati, finding out what they want, and giving it to them!
How Do I Get Links to My Site Using Social Media?
Step 1: Find Your Linkerati
The first step is to find the influential people who could link to you – your linkerati. What we’re aiming to end up with here is a list of influential people and the places where they’re communicating – their blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles, LinkedIn profiles etc…
So – where do you go to find ‘em?!
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Posted by Colin Welch in PRINCE2 & Project Management, Presentation, Social Media on February 10th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We’re pleased to announce that we are now offering MSP Training, with MSP Foundation and MSP Practitioner courses starting in Summer 2010.
We’ve been offering accredited PRINCE2 Courses for many years and acheive great pass rates for both PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner – the industry standard qualifications for Project Managers.
PRINCE2 is great for Project Managers running single projects – but Programme Managers who look after portfolios of multiple projects require a different methodology, and that’s where MSP comes in.
MSP stands for Managing Successful Programmes and provides a flexible and proven toolkit of Programme Management principles that can be adapted for any businesses’ requirements.
The courses we are offering (and our first available dates) are:
MSP Foundation Training: 3-days – £995 + vat
5-7 July 2010
MSP Practitioner Training: 5-days - £1,395 + vat (includes Foundation certification)
5-9 July 2010
Please call Silicon Beach Training on 01273 622272 or e-mail colin@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk for further information and bookings
MSP™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/prince2-project-management-training/
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Posted by Alistair Wylie in MSP, News, PRINCE2 & Project Management on January 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Interested in PRINCE2 Training and want to test your knowledge?
Now you can, with our Interactive PRINCE2 Quiz.
Broken down in to 11 bite-sized parts, our new quiz tests your knowledge of PRINCE2 2009 Themes and Processes.
Parts 1 & 2 are available now, with the rest to follow shortly.
So what are you waiting for – get stuck in and test your knowledge!
If you need a little help, why not check out the comprenehsive guide to PRINCE2 in our Free Resources section?
Whist our free resources and quiz are a great way to swot up and test your knowledge – the only way to thoroughly prepare for your official PRINCE2 exam is to attend our instructor-led PRINCE2 Foundation training or PRINCE2 Practitioner training courses.
Happy Quizzing!
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Posted by Colin Welch in New Free Resources, News, PRINCE2 & Project Management on November 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
One of the questions we’re most commonly asked by delegates attending our PRINCE2 Training is “how does this apply in the real world”. Whilst a good PRINCE2 Foundation or PRINCE2 Practitioner course should get you through your exam (which I’m pleased to say we’re very successful at with a 97% pass rate), PRINCE2 is essentially a toolkit, and it’s equally important to understand how you’ll actually use these tools back at the office.
We achieve this by using PRINCE2 certified trainers who have extensive real-world experience as project managers who can help you to understand how the PRINCE2 processes and themes apply to real projects.
PLUS – everyone can now download free PRINCE2 Project Templates and PRINCE2 Case Studies from our Free Resources section.
Download the PRINCE2 Project Templates for a zipped folder stuffed with documents in Word and Excel format that you can use at every stage of your PRINCE2 project.
Download the PRINCE2 Case Studies for real-world insights in to how the British Council and Suffolk County Council have benefited from PRINCE2.
If you have any questions about the PRINCE2 method or are interested in attending a prince2 training course, call our office on 01273 622272 or e-mail us at info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
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Posted by Colin Welch in New Free Resources, News, PRINCE2 & Project Management on November 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s our last PRINCE2 training course of the year – there’s just a few places left to fill and to celebrate early we’re offering you a Christmas cracker of an offer!
So – get your skates on if you want to take advantage of these great rates:
PRINCE2 Foundation training – 30 November – 2 December
£795 + vat (normally £995).
PRINCE2 Practitioner training - 30 November – 4 December
£995 + vat (normally £1,395)
As always, our fees are inclusive of all of the official course material and your PRINCE2 examinations – plus the usual great training, friendly staff and bags of Christmas cheer!
Call us now on 01273 622272 or e-mail bookings@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk to snap up your place.
If you need to learn more about PRINCE2, don’t miss the complete guide to PRINCE2 2009 Processes & Themes in our Free Training Resources section.
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Posted by Andrew Davies in News, Offers, PRINCE2 & Project Management on November 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Today we’ve launched a complete guide to PRINCE2 Processes and Themes in our free resources section, which will prove a valuable source of information for Project Managers.
This post provides some valuable tips about the interpersonal and organisational skills you’ll need as a Project Manager.
Our Introduction to Project Management, PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner training courses explore these areas in more detail
Stay calm:
Your job as a project manager is to give a sense of organisation and direction to a group, the result of which should be a more efficient and well thought out project. The ability to stay calm is vital, you need to be able to think quickly and clearly under pressure and not get too overwhelmed and make rash decisions.
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Posted by Alistair Wylie in New Free Resources, PRINCE2 & Project Management on October 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
Want to get started in Project Management? We offer a comprehensive 1-day Introduction to Project Management training course.
Here’s a list of the qualities of good project managers and what Project Management is all about to get you started:
To start with Project Managers should:
- Involve all the group members
- Have excellent communication skills
- Have access to all project information
- Have a shared desired outcome from their team
- Have specific dates for completion
- Have all the required tools (when needed) in order to finish.
- Be enthusiastic
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Posted by Colin Welch in PRINCE2 & Project Management on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
All of our public PRINCE2 Training courses are delivered using the new PRINCE2 2009 manual. If you’re moving from using PRINCE2 2005 to PRINCE2 2009, you’ll need to know what’s changed, so we’ve summarised the main differences below:
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Posted by Colin Welch in PRINCE2 & Project Management on October 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
