Twitter brings Sarah Beeny my way!

Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 by helen in Uncategorized, all posts, blogs, featured

I can be a cynic with the best of them and often need proof to be convinced that a new fad or craze is ‘the future’. It was with this in mind that I cautiously joined ‘twitter’ 8 months ago. I started to follow people, admittedly I already knew most of them, but follow I did and not before long I was being followed but I still wasn’t convinced that social media was bringing me the benefits I’d been promised by the evangelists out there. I persevered, mostly due to the interesting things people ‘tweeted’ and soon began to realise that knowledge was shared far easily in bite sized chunks. Signposts to websites of interest soon became invaluable to me and my own posts started to become interesting to other people and soon they were following me????!!!!

Then about a month ago I started following @dreamwalls, a self starter from Grimsby who makes fake wall coverings and loves North East Lincolnshire. Now if you’ve never been south of the Humber or even north of the Humber there’s some incredible misconceptions about the place, which incidentally are totally ill informed and misplaced, in fact I believe it is the hidden gem of the north east. What ensued was a frantic exchange of ‘tweets’ as I discovered someone as passionate about the area as me! I decided she must be followed by equally passionate people and I wasn’t wrong. A few months down the line and I tweeted about my pet subject ‘digital exclusion’ in the Humber and how the older generation are losing out on selling and buying homes because they don’t use estate agency websites. A couple of minutes later I was contacted by @tepilo a follower of @dreamwalls and asked about writing a guest blog!?

A month later and Sarah Beeny of Property Ladder, Mysinglebestfriend.com and tepilo.com fame was sitting in the BBC Radio Humberside on my radio show ‘The Philpot Files’ chatting about living in the Humber, doing up her house and managing four children with multiple businesses. Surreal or what? Now you might think that working for the BBC gives you greater access to people but this is another popular misconception and I owe the entire thing to twitter!

Social media bridges the gap between like minded people of diverse backgrounds. It’s been a revelation and I’m really glad I stuck with it as I now have real evidence that it can make special things happen

http://www.tepilo.com/

http://www.dreamwall.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7r3