• Birmingham City Council’s social media style newsroom. Lots of good lessons for us to learn from this http://bit.ly/1FI0lF #
• Can Facebook can use *your* personal picture in their advertising? Do you need to opt out? http://bit.ly/13Yeg4 #
• Google including “Favourite Places” link on search page. Do you really want to know Kelly Holmes favourite places? http://bit.ly/3SIwpd #
• Do you have questions for Google? Ask Matt Cutts to make a video answer to your questions. http://tinyurl.com/FireAway #
• Need to keep track of when a web page changes, for example a competitor, or a list of research reports? http://digg.com/d1Jse #
• Should @mattcutts keep making videos, or is video learning not your thing. I’d rather read than watch. Vote here http://digg.com/u18Hd0 #
• Trying to figure out the benefits of Google’s Export Advisor service, developed with UKTI, HSBC, Royal Mail, etc. http://digg.com/u18DoY #
• Thanks to @DaveChaffey for including me in his list of Best/top Internet Marketers to follow on Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/chvrqj #
• Social Media Marketing workshop for Master Photographers Association (Markfield). Course notes here: http://bit.ly/Ycj4V #
• Google has 45 different Twitter Accounts. I chose to follow 4. How many will you follow? http://digg.com/d1wSKE #

• Real Time Search: Excellent review of search the “firehose” of tweets, status updates & other Internet drivel. http://digg.com/u17gFU #
• One of the easiest & fun guides to setting up Analytics Goals & Funnels: http://tr.im/mJST RT @googleanalytics #
• 20 (Excellent) Tips to Manage Your Online Social Life by @ericward http://bit.ly/Qpm1Y #
• eBusiness Club Funding Cut: EMDA stops ebusiness training. Show your Support: Sign the EMDA petition. http://digg.com/u17ZeS #
• Google announces its own open source operating system for Netbooks – “People want a better computing experience” http://digg.com/d1w1Xm #
• North51 looking for freelance web designers (UK) Contact Phil Randall http://bit.ly/Dm6UK RT @philrandall #
• Liverpool SEO awarded £50K grant to fund national expansion. Wakey Wakey #EMDA. http://digg.com/u17WZ5 #
• BT Web Clicks Telespammed me today, even after my nasty review. It was a pretty poor sales pitch. Why am I not surprised. #telespam #
• RT @MicrosoftSB Got an Office 2007 small biz success story? Share & get some free PR http://cli.gs/mdeQVH #
• [Blog] Internet Marketing Toolbox: SpyFu http://cli.gs/DS4mB #
• BT Web Clicks are offering flat rate PPC service at an “easy” £10 per click. Ouch! Small businesses beware. http://tinyurl.com/BTWebClicks #
• RT @RobCrumby: 56.6% of Facebook users are over 35, including 15.6% over 55 .ComScore data May’09. See full FT article http://bit.ly/Z4e1f #
• 10 informative web design presentations http://bit.ly/ioD7m from @econsultancy #
• SpyFu Keyword Research Tool Review. UK data on your PPC and SEO competitors. http://digg.com/u17GcK #

• Developing your social media plan. Lisa Barone’s excellent guide http://digg.com/d1rdRE #
• Why Attractive Web Designs work better. You will need to concentrate, but worth reading. RT @AttitudeDesign: http://bit.ly/10timP #
• Improve your LinkedIn profile. Useful tips if you’re looking for a job, but also actions for small business owners. http://digg.com/u172ZM #
• Which are the best Twitter desktop applications? Review by @mashable http://cli.gs/SBtVA #
• Seeding, Weeding & Feeding: Managing Your Social Media Marketing (It’s not free, cheap, or easy) (Harvard Business ): http://bit.ly/edu3y #
• Mashable’s Twitter Guidebook, including a section on Twitter for Business http://digg.com/d1uy3j #
• “But It’s Not Google!” Check out Wired’s list of esoteric search engines and research tools: http://bit.ly/1×3bY RT @wired #
• Huddle, Ning, Etsy, Scribd, Spotify: 50 Startup Tech Businesses You Should Know http://digg.com/d1uC3J #
• RT @fmpickering: Make sure your marketing copy doesn’t break the law – new copy advice site from CAP – http://digg.com/u17FL0 #
• Have you noticed #hashtags are now hyperlinked? If you don’t understand hashtags then read Mashable’s hashtag guide http://digg.com/d1rTF8 #
• Moonfruit running Twitter competition- win a MacBook. However, is it worth the cost of lots of MacBook prizes to buy tweets? #moonfruit #
• June search engine referral data for Hallam: Google 89.9%, Bing 7%, and Yahoo 2%. Bing market share grew from MSN’s previous 3%. #bing #
• Love the new drag and drop functionality in Gmail, makes it easy to organise messages into folders. #
• Google Webmaster Videos: what about those of us who prefer to quickly read rather than watch video?. Please publish a written transcript. #

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, here is a summary of my Twitter observations for this week.

In general my Twitter posts are quite different to my blog articles, so why not try following me: @SusanHallam

• International SEO: Matt Cutts discusses the geographic location of your server and it’s impact on SEO. http://digg.com/u16gfj #
• 10% drop in UK PPC spend during Q1, and average CPC falls from 44p to 30p. http://digg.com/u16dva #
• Great examples of Calls to Action for your website http://digg.com/u16aJq #
• Love the new TweetDeck functionality that lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts. #
• RT @Econsultancy: How Journalists Use Social Media http://bit.ly/HX2Iq #
• SEO Training: Learn Search Engine Optimisation | 9 July | Nottingham . “Brilliant, entertaining, easy to understand” http://digg.com/u16elI #
• Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, speaking at Birmingham Symphony Hall tomrrow. I’ll be there – are u going? #
• Google displaying detailed Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Profile info in results.  http://bit.ly/ri09N #
• [Blog] Challenges of Search Engine Optimisation in Northern Ireland (SEO) http://cli.gs/m4v2HR #
• International SEO tips and tools. Please feel free to contribute and review to this Google Knol. http://tinyurl.com/InternationalSEO #

Here’s what I’ve been Tweeting about last week:

• Matt Cutts on Page Rank Sculpting. There are better genuine ways to spend your SEO time. Hate to say “told you so.” http://bit.ly/yboqI #
• Get your own Google Profile. These are already ranking well in the USA, but not yet in the UK. http://bit.ly/2BbrZ1 #
• Got my Facebook username : http://www.facebook.com/susan.hallam Get yours at http://www.facebook.com/username/ #
• 10 Superb social media presentations http://bit.ly/3CSlIT from @econsultancy #
• Do you use IE8? Firefox plugins keep me loyal, but does IE8 give a better browser experience? http://bit.ly/17r6JL #
• Need evidence that Twitter is successful for businesses? DellOutlet makes £2M in sales by tweeting discount codes. http://bit.ly/w09lR #