It's all began 25 years ago. I was a toddler, mesmerised by a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire film. Once I could walk, my family were forced to watch my choreographed dance extravaganzas in the living room (props included), and paid for my Jazz and Modern Dance classes at primary school. Secondary school was time to grow up and be cool. Jazz hands weren't cool. In year 8 I bowed out of dance with a mind blowing finale of Janet Jackon's Rhythm Nation in the assembly room. But the fiery love of dance was still burning bright inside me, only ever to be seen by my bedroom mirror or by drunk people on a nightclub chair. Now, I live my life of movement vicariously through those people on dance shows, especially Got To Dance (Ashley Banjo reow!), and watching dance at the theatre. On Tuesday I went to see 'Some Like It Hip Hop' at the Peacock Theatre. One word: amazing ! This is ZooNation's second incredible production after the very successful 'Into the Hoods'

I'm sure many of you have already seen the fantastic Coca-Cola campaign - coke, diet coke and coke zero bottles inviting you to 'Share a Coke with [insert name]'. This campaign, which shows bottles with 150 of the UK's most popular first names branded on them, is to encourage people to share the drink with their loved ones and enjoy it with friends. I have to say, I felt very special when my friend took this photo and sent it to me: Such a brilliant idea that pushes both sales and consumer emotion. I rarely buy Coke but if I happen to see one with a friend's name on it, I will buy it for them. It's such a tiny gesture which appeals to people in a massive way. This campaign works great socially. If your name isn't one of the top 150, don't fret, you can create your own virtual can on Facebook  and still make someone feel special. It encourages thousands of people to take photos and pose with their bottles, share images and tag photos - th

The reason I haven't written a post in a week is because I recently got myself a new job. I am now the Social Media Community Manager for Lucozade Sport, Revive and Energy. ... ... .. ...just pausing for a small applause there. Anyway, I am always either on a computer or my smartphone but my boyfriend is the complete opposite. He has no idea about Facebook or Twitter, and his phone is a beaten up old Nokia. Although technology is my life and career, I think it's brilliant and refreshing that he doesn't care about being involved or in touch with any of it. He will never be someone like this: Even though I am like that myself, I appreciate the fact that I had a whole childhood without it. I got my first brick phone when I was 13, and only started using social media at the age of 18 when I created my first MySpace account. I feel sad to think that 5 year olds have Facebook and that children are brought up heavily relying on technology. Anyway, the main reason

It's a Sunday/Bank Holiday so I will take a day off from brain activity. However, I did want to have a post just celebrating my achievement of 10,000 blog views! I started this blog in July 2011 and it has been a great platform for me to speak, show my work and motivate myself. When I first thought of getting a blog I thought perhaps it was too late to start, but my friend told me to just get on with it rather than waste time worrying about whether I should have one or not. STATS!  In the past 23 months I have written 85 posts.  The top-read posts of all time have been 'Disney's Top Hottest Males'- 471 views, 'Facebook Funnies' - 321 views, Pussy is for Women' - 270 views, and 'Chelsea FC's new kit ad' - 175 views. Most of my audience have been from the UK totalling at 5494 views, closely followed by the US who made up 2228 of the views. Other random places my blog has been viewed are Germany, Russia, France, Latvia, Italy and Canada. 

Stop me if any of these look familiar.... You've probably clicked 'like' or answered these photos then sat there waiting eagerly for the magic to happen, only to shed a quiet tear over the fact that life remained as it was. Meanwhile somewhere in the world, a scammer is making a little profit on your gullibility. These pages are created to boost their comments, likes and fans into the thousands, then are sold to companies for their business. The company will then change all the info and bam, that unknown company has some mega super following on Facebook and it makes their online presence soar! If you wanted to like J Beebs for instance, which group are you most likely to click like? Having a strong online following immediately builds credibility. But does this mean anything, really? Having worked in SEO, I know how much clients rely on numbers; number of views, number of sales, and number of increased traffic. Clients also love to see evid