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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Tired of getting beaten at Scrabulous? Bored with being challenged to a movie quiz about talking animals of the fifties? Despairing of ever being voted a “hottie” by your on-line chums? Well the How-Do.co.uk Facebook group may be the answer.
Tired of getting beaten at Scrabulous? Bored with being challenged to a movie quiz about talking animals of the fifties? Despairing of ever being voted a "hottie" by your on-line chums? Well the How-Do.co.uk Facebook group may be the answer.

Open to all the readers, advertisers and contributors of How-do, this new social networking group allows members to interact, comment, review and advise. It is an open space for discussions relevant to all of How-Do’s core areas – North West media, marketing, marketing communications and even How-Do itself.

To join and contribute to the group, would-be members will require their own Facebook account. This is free and can be easily set up at www.facebook.com. Registration on the How-Do Facebook group is then easy - just follow this link or search for how-do-co.uk on the Facebook search engine. Your membership should be activated once approved by an administrator.  

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At the moment membership is subject to administrator approval to ensure the validity of group applications and maintain a membership wholly relevant to How-Do’s core disciplines. This practice maybe reviewed in the future.

Long term How-Do contributor, Tony Murray. one of the admins of the How-Do Facebook group,  said: “The potential for social media as a marketing tool has been one of the most widely discussed topics on How-Do. The launch of the How-Do Facebook group should hopefully give some of the best marketing, media and creative minds in the North West a chance to explore the possibilities of this new medium.

“I would hope that this will become one of the more innovative Facebook groups around and not simply a chance to catch up with old mates and discover potential new ones.”

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 1 By Oswald Moseley, on 17-06-2008 16:57
Why are you a closed group? Like the Monday Club. Think you are something special, do you?
 2 By Tony Murray, on 17-06-2008 22:30
It's not a closed group - but then neither is the Monday Club. Everyone who has applied has been approved. The only reason for the need for admin approval is to screen out ignorant tossers who make ill-informed comments and decline to use their own names. Not that there's anyone like that posting on How-Do now is there Ossie?
 3 By parker, on 18-06-2008 12:22
Yawn.... shouldn't you have done this last year rather than when people are starting to get bored of FB?
 4 By Tony Murray, on 18-06-2008 16:23
Yeah, sure, last year's novelty value of Facebook has worn off a little, but the idea of the HD Facebook is not the novelty"look how much your mates have aged" approach that were the blue touch paper for FB and Friends Reunited, but rather an attempt to see how on-line networking can benefits businesses and business regions. The quality of people signing up so far has been supurb. I think the HD FB group will provide a useful add-on to HD proper, but not allow no-account skulkers such as Parker and Oswald to spend their rare breaks from waitching their videos of Deal or No Deal tossing off in public, metaphorically at least.
 5 By parker, on 18-06-2008 16:58
maybe people are anonymous on here because your retorts are always a schoolyard bully style put down? 
 
good look attracting any friends of FB besides hacks who never challenge anything you say. How forward thinking!
 6 By Claire O'Connor, on 18-06-2008 17:07
Good point Tony, let people say what they have to say and put their names to it, but aren't we mixing business with pleasure a little here? Isn't facebook about talking about what you did at the weekend and taking the mickey out of your mates? I've just looked at the members list, Rick Guttridge is in a monkey suit in his profile picture - and Rob Brown is still down as being at McCann Erikson!... I like reading How-Do but I'll be giving this a miss I think. Good luck with it though!
 7 By Tony Murray, on 18-06-2008 17:50
Well let's talk about this. 
 
Claire. Neither I nor How-Do can be held responsible for how Rick or Rob Brown present themselves. I have explicitly said that we will try and move away from the previous Facebook practices. SM is a maturing discipline; you can do more to make it so by being part of it. Once the site is established - ie reaches 100 members - I would suggest an election for officers and admins. Which is fine by me. 
Parker, let's be frank. The schoolyard bully makes threats, intimidates, tries to recruit a gang and relishes the company of his fellow feeble-minded. That sounds a lot more like you than me. I say what I think - purely under my own name. 
I have been writing about the NW media scene since 93. I am not always right, but I have a knack of knowing a lot of people who are. You are welcome to join the how-do facebook group under your own name - if you have the bollocks (and credibiliy) to express your own views.
 8 By Claire O'Connor, on 18-06-2008 17:56
Oh, Tony. I give in.  
Good luck with it all. 
I was merely pointing out it's a blurry line between networking and fun. 
C
 9 By Tony Murray, on 18-06-2008 18:16
Ah, Claire. I really want you to join now...
 10 By Claire... again, on 18-06-2008 19:12
on another note - have a look at the Club Geek Chic group on FB, Liverpool networking events that are a bit different. 
 
run by a good chum - Gemma Aldcroft. 
 
i'm off for my tea
 11 By Glass houses, on 18-06-2008 19:22
Tony, as a long time reader of How do I find your comments about people declining to use their own names utterly hypocritical. You did this yourself for an age under the pseudonym Nimrod.  
On the feature about Owen Oyston and the one about pushon and fudge for example? 
It was only when someone suggested it was you on a Time Out story that you owned up and apparently stopped. So, don’t try and take the moral high ground when you don’t have a leg to stand on. 
 
That said, your regular round ups are excellent. You should stick to that rather than trying to bully and lecture on a coment board. It does your talent a disservice.
 12 By Tony Murray, on 19-06-2008 01:54
As How-Do is barely a year old, I think "an age" might be something of an exaggeration here. 
 
Yes, I did use the "Nirmrod" pseudonym on a few occasions most notably when seeing off Oyston's history re-writing goons - something which I'm rather proud of. Push-on and Fudge - well maybe, but those were early days when we were on a mission to stir up comment on this nascent site and there were a few faux Nimrods around then - imitation being the sincerest form of etc. 
But, Mr W, I think you miss my point - the anonymity is not really the issue - it's the sheer mundanity of many of these comments that galls. 
And I did own up to being "nimrod" retrospectively "owning" my comments. Who else has done that?
 13 By parker, on 19-06-2008 09:45
you can't decide you want to make facebook a marketing tool. and i love how you immediately attack the first person to use their own name. if this is a forum - lighten up, take some feedback, and play nice
 14 By Tony Murray, on 19-06-2008 10:32
A bright shiny sixpence to anyone who can explain Parker's latest bout of gibberish...he is of course welcome on the forum I've opened just for him - Twatbook (who says I can't do subtle?)
 15 By parker, on 19-06-2008 10:51
facebook is more making friends - not getting business. 
 
the group doesn't even do anything - it's just a list of people who all look drunk in their pictures... professional. 
 
I've started a forum for you as well - Behindthetimesanddoesntunderstandthatforummeansdiscussionand notjustatiradeofabuseifyoudontagreewiththeadministratorBook.
 16 By Tony Murray, on 19-06-2008 11:11
Wanted: Arch-nemesis on How-Do. Must be able to spell and have a basic grasp of syntax. People named after Thunderbirds puppets need not apply. Sigh.
 17 By parker, on 19-06-2008 12:53
fat old gits who are constantly red in the face shouldn't be allowed to comment on anything. they should get some fresh air and step away from the computer... 
 
over and out.
 18 By Simon Wharton website, on 19-06-2008 12:08
I must pay more attention. Didn't actually realise I'd been up against Tony on the PushON / Fudge thing. It was superb for us and Tony was absolutely right to stir it up. If I may paraphrase Wilde bady "The only thing worse than being talked about..." especially where online marketing is concerned. Unfortunately I've managed to educate Tony a little now so he's reluctant to get into a losing battle.
 19 By parker, on 19-06-2008 12:52
hey - a full circle: 
 
yawn. 
 
over and out
 20 By ab, on 19-06-2008 15:48
*looks up at previous 19 posts* 
 
ladies and gentleman of the Uk 
 
i bring you the North Wests' 'finest marketing minds' 
 
*watches stampede of business go south 
 
oh................
 21 By Tony Murray, on 19-06-2008 14:52
Both as a journalist and a teacher, I hate being heckled ungramatically ab.  
 
I have seven year old kids in my classes with English as their second language who have a better grasp of apostrophes and consistent use of upper and lower case letters.  
 
And as to using "stampeded" as a noun. Tsk tsk
 22 By ab, on 20-06-2008 10:27
so? 
 
you seem to be under the impression that what you hate or like has any relevance to me whatsoever. 
 
I apologise profusely for my poor grammar although its a poor man who abuses others to make himself look good Tony 
 
bless you though for your comments
 23 By Tony Murray, on 20-06-2008 12:07
Eh, ab weren't you abusing me in the first instance... 
 
Ps It's "it's"
 24 By ab, on 20-06-2008 12:28
no Tony, unless you wrote all 19 posts 
 
reread my post number 20 
 
ps, keep up the grammar corrections, it doesnt make you seem childish and pathetic at all.
 25 By smarshall, on 20-06-2008 17:08
Is anyone doing any work here - can I have some abuse too, I feel left out...
 26 By Tony Murray, on 21-06-2008 13:01
smarshall - you just haven't earned it yet baby 
 
ab- whereas lacking in basic articulacy makes you look so cooll. BTW where is Chimp magazine Giles? Now 18 months late...
 27 By ab, on 22-06-2008 18:49
you are a strange strange man tony 
 
kind of a poor man's Terry Chrisitan

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