Hampered by a now rather well known torn calf muscle injury, I welcomed October unable to do much but work. I was blessed to have very understanding and supportive customers who accommodated my injury and thankfully this meant the injury was more of a nuisance than a hinderance.

October started with my supporting Stephen Lloyd MP to embrace Twitter and send his first Tweet. He clearly paved the way for the Queen to join in later in the month.

It was also my first Social Media Marketing workshop, which oversold out. I was delighted at the response I got from my first delegates who left enthused and confident about tackling the various platforms.

Injury aside, I made sure I attended the key business events, which included #EBTweetup early in the month, #Best4Biz which was an excellent event hosted by East Sussex County Council, the Alliance of Chambers in East Sussex and Recruitment South East Ltd, and the brilliant Let’s Do Business Hastings event. All of which were very worthwhile and enjoyable.

I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to promote #Wyntercon which was the first Sci-Fi, Alternative, Fantasy event to be held in Eastbourne. This fantastic event took place Halloween weekend and attracted huge numbers of people from all over. I had a fabulous time covering this amazing event. Some of my highlights are below.

Hopefully my next blogpost will be before the end of November, until then – don’t be ditzy about social media J

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The month began with the Relaunch of the #EBTweetup, which included the launch of EastbourneHour or #EBHour and also my launch.

Me with Stephen Lloyd MP at #EBTweetup by @Avantphoto

The event was very well attended by the local community and businesses and we were very lucky to have Mr Stephen Lloyd MP and Katy Bourne, Sussex Police Crime Commissioner as speakers, as well as my good self talking about my new business, and not forgetting the marvelous David Ruddle, thebestof Eastbourne hosting the event.

And then #EBHour began! It has now been running for 3 weeks and we are averaging just shy of 50 contributors which is brilliant and underlines what an active community Eastbourne is on Twitter.

I was then fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to take over #SussexHour from Carole Manley who has hosted the chat hour since it began in March 2013.

Hosting #EBHour and #SussexHour concurrently is serious fun and hard work too, but hard work that you enjoy is not really hard work!

Another highlight this month was launching a partnership with Families For Autism www.familiesforautism.com This is a great local charity doing some fabulous work in supporting families of children and young people with Autism in Eastbourne and East Sussex.

October looks to be another exciting and busy month, with my first Social Media Marketing workshop booked for 21 October. I have trained lots of small businesses on getting started on social media previously but it’s a great feeling to be doing this as Ditzy Media.

Keep in touch with me via Twitter, Facebook etc – just look for the links at the top of this page.

FYI…

#EBHour is every Thursday 7.30 – 8.30pm follow @EastbourneHour on Twitter

#SussexHour is every Thursday 8.30 – 9.30pm follow @SussexHourUK

Families For Autism are on Twitter @FFAeastsussex and on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Families-For-Autism/706780012736864

thebestof Eastbourne website: http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/eastbourne

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Scheduled to run from 8.00 – 9.00pm, 45 local businesses / contributors joined in the conversation which was hosted by me.

So 45 contributors resulted in 444 tweets being sent during #EBHour which led to a reach of over 67,000 and 806,000+ timeline deliveries – not bad for the first night!

#EBHour has been set up to provide the Eastbourne community with a weekly online forum, for businesses and individuals that want to network online. Chat Hours are supportive forums designed to encourage relationships to build online which hopefully become meaningful and beneficial offline.

Continued promotion through established business and community networks should ensure it’s growth and success. If you missed the first night be sure not to miss it again.

#SussexHour
The original chat hour for the Sussex region, #SussexHour, has been going since March 2013 and has been hosted since it’s inception by Carole Manley.

Carole has done a fabulous job of growing and religiously hosting #SussexHour which has become a powerful broadcast and online networking hour for the region.

#SussexHour runs every Thursday night 8.30-9.30

After a long time at the helm, Carole is handing over the hosting of #SussexHour to me. Quite an honour and responsibility but I am delighted to have this opportunity and only hope I can follow in Carole’s outstanding footsteps to continue to foster a positive and dynamic network which benefits so many across Sussex.

Double hosting means a tweak to the schedule for #EBHour!
As I quickly learnt last night, hosting 45 contributors and then having a further 100 join in at 8.30 was quite an experience – and that was with Carole hosting #SussexHour! For this reason, #EBHour will move to begin at 7.30pm from next week 18/9/14

Please note the new time. #SussexHour remains at 8.30 as always. Hope to see you there!

FYI The next #EBTweetup will be on Wednesday 1st October at the Afton Hotel, Eastbourne 5-7pm

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Chat Hours can be locality or subject based. If you are a business & want to search and find chat hours that may be useful to your business please see: http://chatsalad.com

#SussexHour is the chat hour for #Sussex & takes place every Thursday 8.30-9.30pm

For the ladies there is also at the same time every week #Twittersisters

For #Eastbourne and nearby towns, next week will be the official launch of #EBHour which will take place every Thursday from 8.00 – 9.00pm

If you would like to attend the FREE launch of #EBHour which will be part of the #EBTweetup , please see to register:
http://bit.ly/1qCwYEu

In all instances use the search function on Twitter to see the conversations and use the Hashtags to join in

If you need any help with Chat Hours, please get in touch

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