June 2010 Archives

There are already a couple of regular social media events in Scotland (such as the New Media Breakfast or Craig McGill's Scottish Social Media Dinners).

The latest to step out onto the landscape is Media140 Scotland which kicks off in Glasgow on Thursday.

Keynote speaker Trey Pennington has drafted up a guest blog piece for us ahead of his arrival in Scotland.

The American, who has 85,000 followers on Twitter, is recognised as a big hitter when it comes to social media uses for business.

So here's what he had to say.

A bit of good news today with an increase in business start-ups in Scotland in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same time last year. According to the Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers the number of start ups between January and March was 4352 compared to 4166 last year. Although its not a dramatic increase it does show there is an appetite to set up businesses in Scotland. The recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed how Scotland was slipping badly behind the rest of the UK and other countries in start ups and made depressing reading. But at least we are seeing a pretty substantial number of start-ups and I suspect that will increase as people who have been made redundant decide to take the plunge.