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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...
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...
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...
3 things YOUR company is getting WRONG in Social Recruitment!
Incorrect hires must cost the economy £millions every year when you combine job advertising, wages and recruitment fees, and with the rise of Social Recruitment I believe we can start to reduce this wasted spend. As a follow on from a previous post ‘How to get found in Social Media’, I thought it would be...
Creativity and Curation at LikeMinds
Tomorrow I’m delighted to say that I’m heading down to the wonderful South West of England, to the City of Exeter for my 1st experience of the event that is LikeMinds. Full of anticipation and expectation I’ll be getting up at 4am and jumping on the motorway for an action packed day of ‘Creativity and...
‘Tech for Good’ – 15th November 2010
The last few weeks I’ve been plotting and getting plans together for my next big offline gathering! Riding on the high from co-organising the Social Collective Conf in September I wanted to do something that is a bit different and addresses some big questions for the industry. I feel that there is huge competition and...
Q: Who would you turn to? Building an online community…
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Hi Guys, I wondered if I could call on your help to crowd-source a supplier, software provider, social network builder… I’d like to find a supplier to build a network to share blogs, run events, participate in discussion groups and host profiles. There will be more to it than that but interested in your thoughts....
You don’t need to follow in line…
Technology has given us the opportunity to follow each other, to create and publish content, to create communities online and discuss all manner of topics from Space Exploration to keeping Marine Fish. Give people the opportunity to communicate, set a topic or theme and people will communicate. This creates a tribe says Seth Godin. I’m...
Getting Found: Social Media for the Job Seeker
There’s a rapidly expanding list of resources available to the job seeker to find work, with dedicated sites such as Chinwag, Only Marketing Jobs and New Media Age Jobs for the Digital Marketing sector. These sites all utilise tools such as Twitter and LinkedIn to build communities and broadcast their latest jobs (join and follow...
Social Media – Personal / Pleasure or Business / Brains
So do you link, tweet or facebook for personal or business gains? Are you a follower and poker or LION? I guess the fact that most people are now familiar with those phrases are testimony to Social Media. I’ve read numerous blogs and articles on the use of Social Media in the work place, most...
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