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Why I wont be attending iStrategy’s Conference
Wow… I’ve just received the most unbelievable phone call from the iStrategy Conference Company with reference to a tweet of mine on the 14th December. I’m familiar with iStrategy because they run a Social Media conference, and during last year they approached upwards of 15 times about either buying tickets or selling me sponsorship –...
20% off for #techMAP – Social Media Monitoring Training – London, 26th Jan
20% off for #techMAP – Social Media Monitoring Training – London, 26th Jan Luke Brynley-Jones (Our Social Times) and Marshall Sponder are running an exclusive, one-off social media monitoring class in London on 26th January. Attendees will learn how to choose, set up and configure a monitoring platform; how to identify influencers; how to extract...
FORSALE: 500BHP MK1 ESCORT (TVR V8)
Our Award winning, Magazine Featured and Top Gear DVD filmed Ford Escort Mk1 has regretfully got to go up for sale. It’s a rare to find a car with 512bhp, 800kg and the character of a Mk1 Escort, but 5 years ago a friend of ours built it, raced it and loved her, we bought...
Productivity 3.0
The modern workplace has changed, in fact our jobs have changed radically over the past 5 years (and almost unrecognizable from our jobs 15 years ago!), we know this, its not big news. We’re immersed in a world of digital communication, best practices, policies and procedures that our managers measure us against. We’re immersed in...
Why Google tells us MORE about ‘YOU’ than your CV…!
If you’ve spent more than 10 minutes online recently you’ve only got to type your name into Google and all of a sudden you realise that you have a Digital footprint, what most people don’t realize is that your Digital footprint might tells us more than your CV. As much as it may be under...
Visualizing Friendships (Amazing #FB Infographic)
I’m slightly fascinated by something that was shared via twitter this afternoon. The Social Network giants haven’t been to forth coming with great articles of late, mainly just dribble about how they might try to a) eventually monetise or b) finally get privacy policy right. So check this article out from Facebook Intern Paul Butler...
@TwankersUK got it so wrong?
Yesterday I got a DM from the Satrical King of Twitter about his latest post that I’m delighted to be included in. All publicity is good publicity right? Anyways, The reason for my post is quite simple, theres no point writing a post that takes the piss out of the industry if you then go...
Notes and Thoughts from LikeMinds
Since I attended the LikeMinds conference in Exeter four weeks ago I’ve been promising myself to collect my thoughts, draft up my notes into something readable and post a blog reflecting on the day. Its taken 4 weeks because we’ve moved house, hired staff at ‘Fresh‘ and run the fabulously enjoyable ‘Technology for Good‘ conference...
Why #Google doesn’t care that #Rockmelt is taking market share from #Chrome
Since finding my way from the bland slow days of Internet Explorer I’ve been torn between the Firefox and Chrome browser options and tossed and turned between them. Chrome on the whole has been the fav – but it does get a bit buggy and fall short in certain situations (more so in Win7 than...
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