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Put Your Knowledge of Scotland to the Test

ScotClans has joined forces with Panalba to challenge you to a quest – to find the location of The Lost Chalice of Alba. Find the chalice and win the unique prize.

Dare you undertake The Quest to find the ‘Lost Chalice of Alba’? To do so you will have to answer a series of challenging questions on Scottish heritage, geography and history.

The answer to each of the questions points to a location in Scotland, in true treasure hunt style – X marks the spot where the treasure is hidden – by joining lines between these locations, discover the point where they cross to locate the treasure – sounds easy doesn’t it? But beware, the answers might not be as straight forward as you think. We will be sending out a series of clues to each question via email, facebook and twitter. To help look out for compass icon on www.scotclans.com, they will be hidden around the site and signify that something important may be on that page, but watch out, it could be a red herring!

The questions will be discussed on Panalba, at the Treasure Hunt Group, so join forces with other people – it might help.

So don your tartan explorer hat and Good luck and happy hunting, just sign up to be taken to the first question!

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Twitter – Social Networking Site

Today an article was published in The Edinburgh Evening News which looked at ever growing phenomenon of Twitter.  Rodger from www.scotclans.com was interviewed to give his views on how ScotClans uses Twitter.  (but unfortunately didn’t leave a lasting impression as he gets called Robert Moffet in this article).  The aricle is written by Victoria Raimes.

Twitter has more than six million users and as Victoria says is even getting Facebook in a flap.

Victoria writes:

“A Top 100 Edinburgh tweeters list has been compiled by Twitterholic.com and is ranked by number of followers.

With so many firms keen to get in on the act, is there a danger Twitter will become nothing more than a crowded marketplace? 

Scotclans, which sells kilts and other Scottish-themed goods and is the second most popular Twitter user in Edinburgh, doesn’t believe that will be the case.

“Yes, Twitter is an ongoing PR system, but if you blatantly start promoting your business – and only promoting your business – people are going to suss you out pretty quickly and stop following you,” says owner Robert Moffet.

“We aren’t trying to sell kilts on Twitter. Rather we’re trying to humanise our business, to show customers there are real, interesting people behind the company.”

Scotclans, though, has found Twitter is an excellent way to make contacts. The company bumped into a new social networking site, Scotster, on the site and the pair decided to team up to enhance their business, with Scotster users now offered a link to one of Scotclans’ forums.

After finding Twitter so useful, Robert and a colleague decided to visit a Twestival in February. ”

See ScotClans tweets at  http://twitter.com/scotclans.

Many thanks to Victoria Raimes for this article and for now joining the twitter crowd.  Read her full article >>

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