At Up To Speed, we pride ourselves in keeping our students on top of all the latest changes and developments in the industry.

Back in February, we set all of our students up with Wordpress blogs and twitter accounts and encouraged them to integrate their output and to use their Facebook pages for the same purpose.

At first, some of our students struggled to see the point, but many realized that this could be an excellent way of spreading the word about their work and themselves.

The results for the group were immediate. The number of unique users visiting our news site Poole People increased by 400% in a matter of weeks, mirroring the experience of other publications. The Daily Telegraph has reported that 8% of traffic to www.telegraph.co.uk comes from social media.

Laura Allard was one of our most devoted tweeters and now it has paid off. Just check out these emails from Laura over the past few days:

Laura Quotes

“Sept 9th

I have to thank you for all of this, for all your help, and for getting us to sign up to Wordpress and Twitter all those months ago. My mum was sceptical about Twitter, but it has really helped. I’m really pleased you showed the new group my blog. It has obviously helped me, so I hope it helps them too.

Sept 16th:

How exciting, I am an F1 columnist! I got practically no sleep last night I was so excited after this got published I’ll be writing for the site every Wednesday, and I may be doing some podcasts as well!

http://www.formula1blog.com/2009/09/15/marbles-laura-marieee-09-16-2009-f1-formula1/

Also writing a feature on Lotus for the end of the week for another site as well. ”

So, the proof of the pudding is in the tweeting!

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