Last week I wrote our first post in a new mini-series on Social Media, discussing Twitter.

We’ve since come across some fascinating statistics detailing the top ten countries that Twitter receives traffic from. Our international audience may find this rather eye-opening. Check it out…

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With the new year comes new resolutions, new plans and new ideas – hold up, scrap that – here’s what this is without all the rambling…

A new mini-series of posts from Tactical Thinking about how Social Media is being used in the Snow Sports and general Adventure Tourism Industries.

It’s always nice to associate things with the beginnings of another calendar year, but I think I’m a few weeks late on that note.

So here it is; post number one in our new series and in it we’ll be discussing last years big social media development Twitter. Now if you don’t know what Twitter is, don’t fret…

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

… in other terms it’s a free micro-blogging platform that allows people and businesses to communicate short and simple messages quickly to their audience.

Rather than explain all the benefits and intricacies of Twitter itself, we thought it best to just show you how others are using it in the many different ways it can be applied.
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