Social Media Marketing Training

Are you fed up with the ‘social media marketing’ over-hype? Are you just really keen to get you (or your marketing team) trained and REALLY confident in this area? We offer straightforward, honest, hands-on training, in our purpose-built Dunning DNA Lab. We’ve got a special e-mail promotion with prices starting at a very affordable £70 per person, for our half-day package. What we do in The Lab is not a seminar, it’s proper, joined-up marketing advice and specific training, provided by marketing experts. What else do you get? To help you, to help yourself, our Lab is an interactive experience. You’ll try out and work on all the platforms you’ll be using (Twitter, Facebook. LinkedIn), to help make your Social Media Marketing strategy a success. You’ll also get tips on how social marketing can get you appointments, make you money and how Read more…

#themeet140 Inspires

On Thursday the 19th of August a couple of the @DunningDesign Team attended #themeet140 in the Lansdowne pub in the west end of Glasgow. Julian represented Dunning and Claire ‘came out’ as the face behind @skelptarse to much amusement and ‘I should have guessed’ type remarks. The event was incredibly well attended with over 120 eager Tweeters talking to each other IRL. Whilst a great networking experience in itself, the more remarkable outputs  have been the blogs that the relationships established and/or strengthened have inspired. Claire met @blessedsister on entering the Lansdowne and was inspired enough by her blog 140 Strangers…! to post this in reply: Hi Blessed Sister, Now we are no longer strangers and I reckon that happened two seconds after we introduced ourselves, I feel at ease asking ‘how did your exam go?’ I do hope that Read more…

University of the West of Scotland inducted into the Skillset Media Academy

Media Academies are Centres of Excellence in the teaching of Media production. There are around 22 in the UK. If you compare this with the number of Further Education establishments in the UK, it’s clear, it’s not that easy to become a Member of this prestigious gang. For a start, there’s a process which involves a detailed approvals visit in the form of an inspection. After this, a rigorous process takes place with the staff and students covering criteria which includes Interviews, Staff appraisal, Business Planning Research and examining Work experience processes. As a Board Member of Skillset Scotland, our own Julian Westaby was an ‘Industry Representative’ during the recent process of deciding whether University of West of Scotland (UWS) should gain induction to the Media Academy. What made it doubly interesting is that they’d tried in the past to Read more…