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Subliminal Aura said:
Not meaning to sound harsh but here it is in black and white.

1 - You're very very late to the party, building communities now is harder than ever and will probably cost you more the longer you leave it.

2 - Forums, great, ocuk has had a great run with this but let's face it the money is with the young and it's highly unlikely they'll follow the forum route but rather discuss tech through social networks, it's quicker and easier. Once in you're sitting on a goldmine like dare I say your competitors are.

3 - Effort, where's the ocuk blog ? Where are all the fantastic builds and technical insights ? Build the blog link it to your sites - gain traction and THEN explode it on social networks - Facebook <-> Twitter and ping it to hell and back.

4 - Failure with current twitter campaigns. Social networking is about engaging people. You can't start a campaign sourced from these forums. As I hinted forum folk and twitter folk are two different breads. It's like you're breaking every single social networking rule out there which brings me to ...

5 - Detrimental social networking presence. Continue with what you're doing at the moment and it'll be bad for ocuk - and I mean financially - An @Spie twitter account is also a bad idea as followers want to know about the real @Spie not what he does for a living.

Sorry I had to get this off my chest as I'm tired of seeing you guys fail at this.

Look at this way - I've been on Twitter from the very start and have linked forum topics on many occasions, if you had a twitter presence I would have linked you too.

Final nail in the coffin { fearing the ban hammer }, your competitors actively scan tweets, follow and engage this is probably a reason why I followed them back but I'm not the only one - around 30 odd in my circle follow them too but none of us follow @overclockers_uk.

I seriously hope you guys can sort this out ... please ?
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Nice, nice. Oh by the way, no-one cares.

@Lysander666

Simulatorman, follow me.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Not meaning to sound harsh but here it is in black and white.

1 - You're very very late to the party, building communities now is harder than ever and will probably cost you more the longer you leave it.

2 - Forums, great, ocuk has had a great run with this but let's face it the money is with the young and it's highly unlikely they'll follow the forum route but rather discuss tech through social networks, it's quicker and easier. Once in you're sitting on a goldmine like dare I say your competitors are.

3 - Effort, where's the ocuk blog ? Where are all the fantastic builds and technical insights ? Build the blog link it to your sites - gain traction and THEN explode it on social networks - Facebook <-> Twitter and ping it to hell and back.

4 - Failure with current twitter campaigns. Social networking is about engaging people. You can't start a campaign sourced from these forums. As I hinted forum folk and twitter folk are two different breads. It's like you're breaking every single social networking rule out there which brings me to ...

5 - Detrimental social networking presence. Continue with what you're doing at the moment and it'll be bad for ocuk - and I mean financially - An @Spie twitter account is also a bad idea as followers want to know about the real @Spie not what he does for a living.

Sorry I had to get this off my chest as I'm tired of seeing you guys fail at this.

Look at this way - I've been on Twitter from the very start and have linked forum topics on many occasions, if you had a twitter presence I would have linked you too.

Final nail in the coffin { fearing the ban hammer }, your competitors actively scan tweets, follow and engage this is probably a reason why I followed them back but I'm not the only one - around 30 odd in my circle follow them too but none of us follow @overclockers_uk.

I seriously hope you guys can sort this out ... please ?
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Try saying that on Twitter;)

is there a reason why are you so concerned about someone else's business?
 
Well, I will agree that there is a total lack of an OcUK blog here. I am very surprised that OcUK hasn't picked up on this over the years. Sometimes there is some OcUK testing, but the findings are reported in some thread here, away from most of the public gaze.

Having someone in-house to build, test, benchmark, and report on products with inserted nice photos can attract many sales.

Take the fact that OcUK were one of the first to offer Sandy Bridge - The amount of sales generated from a decent blog on Sandy Bridge detailing benchmarks would have increased sales by quite a margin.
 
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I found the major plus with Twitter is the immediate information.

For instance, my wife was in an airport and the sirens started blaring and all the gates shutdown around her section. No news site had any information but twitter had tons of people describing what they could see.

Fantastic tool even if it's not a credible source at times.
 
I follow quite a few people in the animation/film industry, and its a great source of news, rumours, technical advice and so on. Definitely useful as a business tool, and don't feel the need to post my brekkie habits just yet ;)
 
I've been contemplating using this on my blog. Can't hurt I suppose. Some git has stolen the name I'd use though, always a good sign that.

What sounds best?

Nixism_UK
Nixisms

Other?
 
Lysander said:
Nice, nice. Oh by the way, no-one cares.

@Lysander666

Simulatorman, follow me.
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No thanks, quality connections happen automatically. I've never had to advertise my twitter but people seem to find me quite easily

mhk1058 said:
is there a reason why are you so concerned about someone else's business?
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None whatsoever, however would you stand by whilst watching someone throw themselves off the edge of a cliff ?

Talking about twitter, I've been neglecting it for a while - only 10 tweets a month but still have more followers than you lot ! :eek:
 
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