Hi James,
You might want to have a look at Google plus as well, its not as big as
facebook and twitter yet but its growing. You cant put 'brands' on
there at the moment (they're only allowing personal profiles at present)
but its probably one to watch out for in the near future.
theres a video from the google plus program manager talking about it here:
http://mashable.com/2011/07/06/google-plus-businesses/
Steve
On 08/08/11 10:42, James Morley wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Apologies for hijacking the list for what is in effect a personal rather than professional question, but I thought the discussion would be interesting to the list anyway.
>
> My wife and her sister have a great idea for a new educational product that they want to launch as a charity fund-raising project. It has a very distinctive name/brand, but the question is ...
>
> Aside from the obvious web domain, Twitter account and Facebook page, what are the essential places that they need to 'secure' an account using that brand name?
>
> We have registered www.[brandname].com and .org
> We have created twitter.com/[brandname]
> We have created a Facebook page and will create facebook.com/[brandname] (once we get the required 25 Likes!)
> We will probably also do a YouTube account/channel
>
> But what other channels/services would anyone suggest as must haves? I appreciate that it does depend on the product and any particular needs, but at this stage and in this forum I'm just intrigued as to what people regard as the key generic ones.
>
> Thanks, James
>
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