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The Eyes Have It

13 August 2010

I have a bit of a fixation with eyes – for me they are the gateway to the soul. You can tell exactly how someone is feeling or whether they agree or disagree with you just by looking into them. Those little ‘inflections’ that appear when a person is talking about a subject that they’re [...]

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495 Social Niche and Not-So Niche Site Links #LLBS

20 July 2010

This post is support my 7 min talk at the Late Late Breakfast Show, at the Sway Hotel in Holburn tonight (20th July 2010). I will keep adding to this list when I come across sites, but if you know of any that are not here please can you add them in comments. For those [...]

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Be2CampEast June2010 – Getting Jiggy with Viddy

24 June 2010

Be2Camp East June 2010 presentation – Getting jiggy with_viddy View more presentations from Lee Smallwood.

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UK General Election: Have you decided? #GE2010

21 April 2010

I read on Sky News yesterday that there is a slight difference of opinion on ‘which party’ is currently out in front? There were three poll results published: ComRes, YouGov and Populus who conducted telephone interviews over two days between the 18th & 20th of April ComRes – interviewed 1012 adults on April 18th & [...]

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One for your Toolbox: Paul Weston

27 March 2010

Paul Weston was made redundant in February 2010 and decided to use social media as a way of proactively raising his online profile to find work.  And before you say anything… I’m not calling Paul Weston a ‘Tool’ but the way he has been utilising online tools in order to find a new job is [...]

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A perfect moment

23 March 2010

Yesterday evening I was told at the end of presenting a proposal that we’d won the project for a European product launch. There had been a few late nights ‘Sat by the Mac’ pulling ‘stuff’ together – oh, and that is me on the left – so it was great feeling to get the immediate [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 4 of 8

15 March 2010

META Description Over the years META tags have been abused by many in order to try and manipulate search results. But in doing so many sites have been blacklisted. The importance of good META can’t be stressed enough and in this part of my mini series on SEO, I want to discuss why taking the [...]

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140conf London: ‘How real time web is facilitating offline interactivity

10 March 2010

Just on the train heading into London for tonights #140conf London meetup themed ”How real time web is facilitating offline interactivity’ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that communicating online using social networking platforms and tools can be a ‘cost effective’ (subjective I know…) alternative to its historical big brother. But what’s even [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 3 of 8

8 March 2010

Page <title> & how it helps increase search engine visibility This is part 3 of 8 of my mini series on SEO. Currently, people use search engines the most to discover websites that contain the most relevant content that they’re looking for. And the ‘Search’ function is also the most used ways site visitors navigate [...]

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