Katharine Robinson is TheSourceress
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by TheSourceress on January 2, 2012
You cannot know me and not be aware that I love Percy Pig sweets from Marks and Spencer.
I tweet about them. I eat them in bed, on the bus and at the office. I have Percy on my key-ring and in my Christmas stocking. I know that a lot of people feel the same way. [...]
Tagged as: M&S, Marketing, marks and spencer, percy pig, social media, twitter
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by TheSourceress on January 21, 2010
I discovered @sainsburys on Twitter yesterday morning when somone retweeted a competition they were running to win a £50 voucher.
Whether I like it or not, supermarkets are where a lot of my income ends up going. As much as I try to buy local and support smaller businesses, more often than not, it is just [...]
Tagged as: asda, conversation, coop, cooperative, Marketing, sainsburys, shopping, Social Networks, supermarkets, tesco, twitter, waitrose
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by TheSourceress on October 31, 2009
Since writing a post on UK restaurants using Twitter, I have kept an eye out for more examples to add to the list.
My List of UK Restaurants now stands at 67 and I have made it available using twitter’s new lists feature.
I have noticed a lot of good things due to my new awareness for [...]
Tagged as: food, Marketing, restaurants, twitter
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by TheSourceress on July 12, 2009
This tweet from Benjamin Ellis (@BenjaminEllis) really got me thinking.
Are there lots of restaurants in the UK using twitter? Could this be the first successful reservation made through the micro-blogging service? It certainly isn’t the first restaurant in the UK to be talked about for using twitter.
I really like the idea that wherever I am, [...]
Tagged as: food, List, Lists, Marketing, restaurants, Social Networks, twitter, UK
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by TheSourceress on July 5, 2009
The twitter community in Reading are very sociable and have become my closest group of twitter friends in the last few months. We use the hashtag #rdg to make sure that we never miss out on what’s going on or the opportunity to meet up and do something together.
Just lately local media and businesses have [...]
Tagged as: #rdg, local, Marketing, spam, tweetup, twitter
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by TheSourceress on March 15, 2009
Since publishing my first two posts on the Social Networking World Forum, I have been impressed with just how on the ball these social media folks are when it comes to their web presence. I’ve heard from Alex Halliday of SocialGO and Ivan Croxford of BT Tradespace here on the blog and Jackson Bond of [...]
Tagged as: Bebo, blogging, Event, Facebook, Marketing, meerkats, social networking world forum, Social Networks, YouTube
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by TheSourceress on March 12, 2009
The second half of the morning session focused on taking your brand out to the Social Networks where your customers are already.
NetLog, a ten year old social network from Europe, with an impressive presence there and in Asia were up next. Their CEO, Lorenz Bogart, told us about successful campaigns on their site from the [...]
Tagged as: advertising, BT Tradespace, Friendster, Marketing, NetLog, social networking world forum, Social Networks, Xing
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During the day, I search the internet for people that companies want to talk to, the rest of the time I wax lyrical about Laundry, Cheese, Star Trek, Tea and Tweetups.
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