#691 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Penny Power OBE

How To Use Social Media Networks Effectively To Build Your Business Penny Power OBE is a British author and speaker. The former founder of Ecademy In 1998, she founded Ecademy with her husband Thomas Power and CEO Glenn Watkins with the aim of helping business people achieve success through online tools, community and friendship.[1][2][3] As of May 2011, shortly before its demise, the Ecademy community had 3011 paying members [although Power claims a membership of 650,000. Penny Power published a book in August 2009, titled 'Know me, like me, follow me: what online social networking means for you and your business'.[4] In 2012, Ecademy was acquired by SunZu, owned by Lyndon Wood. Power was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship in social and digital development.[5] This Weeks Main Questions #1 - Penny what do you think are some of the major tech trends that have been accelerated during the pandemic and how will these affect relationship building in the future? #2 - How do you get any insights/tips connected to how people can effectively build their professional networks in 2022? #3 - LinkedIn - I've personally got a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn but basically I think it offers some great opportunities have you got a couple of tips/insights connected to using it effectively? #4 - With the "Me Too Movement" a lot of businesses in the tech sector are struggling connected to what can be allowed in their individual companies connected to nonbusiness discussions in the office or on Slack have you got any insight connected to this? #5 - How with the acceleration of remote working connected to the pandemic how do you see this affecting company culture and effectiveness? #6 - What have been some of you memorable mistakes you have made that you are happy to share with us and what did you learn from these business mistakes?     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Power https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/