Category Archives: social media

google+

11 Monday Jul 2011

Posted by in geekiness, internet, social media, twitter

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Here I go again…

I finally got an invite to join Google+ yesterday and since then I have been wasting spending all kinds of time figuring out what it can do. So far it seems like a much more elegant version of Facebook, and I can see it becoming very popular. There are nice options available so each post can go totally public, to all your contacts (all circles) or just selected ones. And I love that I can edit my posts after they’ve been published.

A bit annoyed with myself for being a bit duh and signing up using my Google profile name “azahar sevilla”, instead of my real name. Looks like everyone is using their real name, but oh well.  As I’m mostly interested in using this for business stuff then using my brand is probably okay. Or it’ll have to be because it looks like I’m not allowed to change it (oops)! Besides, most people know me as azahar by now. Perhaps I should legally change it…?

This is a link to my G+ profile

Who else out there is now using Google+?

easyjet az

06 Wednesday Apr 2011

Posted by in blogging, computers, culture, fiestas, friends, internet, iphone, sevilla, social media, spam, twitter, work

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Yesterday evening I was thrilled when I got an email from Annie Manson saying that while flying from Geneva to Málaga she’d seen me mentioned and quoted in the EasyJet’s April Inflight magazine, and congratulating me on such a great PR coup. At first I was totally flummoxed as I had no idea why I would be in there, then when I saw the article (about the Feria in Sevilla) written by Derek Workman, I remembered meeting Derek for tapas a while back and spending a pleasant leisurely lunchtime chatting about Sevilla stuff. He was in town doing research for this article as EasyJet was about to launch a new London-Sevilla route in April. So that was quite exciting! If you want to read the article (which starts on page 50) you’ll have to register, which is a bit of a pain but only takes a minute.

Anyhow, after a few emails back and forth to Annie I got into bed with my iPhone to read a few last tweets and emails before sleeping and saw that one of my favourite tapas bars was mentioned in an article by Shaney Hudson, an Australian travel writer now living in Holland who was here on a research visit last autumn. Then I saw that my tapas tours got a personal recommendation from Shaney in her Essential Guide to Sevilla (!!!). How cool is that?

All of which has me thinking this morning about all the amazing connections I’ve made, and continue to make, via my blogs, Twitter and – okay I admit it – even Facebook.  I’ve made friends and biz contacts, and have also found work, as a result of not only sitting in front of my laptop (or with iPhone in hand) several hours a day, but also by going out to meet many of these people when they are in town. Which of course I love as one of my favourite things to do is show people “my Sevilla” and especially take them out for tapas. So anyone who still thinks social media is silly is, well, silly.  😉

 

 

more sevilla english

03 Sunday Apr 2011

Posted by in social media, twitter, websites, work

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Two years ago I set up this Sevilla English site to try and scare up a bit of business in the classes and translations department, which never really took off. Then today I decided to take it a step further and get Nog involved, switching his Twitter account name (which he rarely used) from the_noggin to SevillaEnglish, and I also set up a Facebook Fan Page for which we are both administrators but that he can mostly maintain.

I reckon that getting active in social media and connecting with local people and businesses may end up helping him get enough work so that he won’t have to pack up and go back to Wales. So let’s hope he sticks with this and gets things happening!

oscar would be so proud…

13 Sunday Mar 2011

Posted by in food & drink, internet, social media, twitter

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Went out for lunch at Eslava today with a friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous) and found out that another Sevilla food blogger has been going around spreading nasty – and totally untrue! – rumours about me.

Looks like I have arrived!  🙂

But I am vindicated not only because what he’s saying is false. I have a friend here who had the same problems with him a while back (stealing photos, sending rude private FB messages) and so he can say what he likes. In fact, I actually hope he says these things to people who know me well so that it all blows up in his face.

Karma, baby!