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Be2Camp – Social Media Week London

2 February 2010

Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting – this was meant to be yesterday’s blog – but I didn’t get home until 10.30pm and felt a bit knackered. Promise I’ll catch up by the end of the week What was that saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intensions’ …! Since yeaterday. a [...]

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One for your toolbox – Ping.fm

29 January 2010

Yesterday I posted a question on Twitter asking “what would you like to read about…” the most popular reply was “what social media tools do I use?” So I thought I’d make Friday’s blog posts a regular feature ‘One for your toolbox’. So, every Friday I’ll review online web based tools and ones that need [...]

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Collaborate to Innovate

27 January 2010

Many heads of business view collaboration as a key part of innovating successfully. These ‘leaders’ understand that it would be impossible to complete projects or innovation targets just by using internal teams alone. The answer? To look outside of the organisation for strategic partners… Successful examples of this include the Mercedes/Swatch collaboration that brought us [...]

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“To thine own self be true”

25 January 2010

I think, until recently, people believed that the key to finding a ‘satisfying’ career was finding a job that matched individual values, interests and skills. But although this looks good on paper, there’s a problem: it just doesn’t work in practice! It doesn’t work because peoples values, interests and skills aren’t the key drivers when [...]

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It starts with hello: being social

23 January 2010

Being social and using social media are two totally different things. Many businesses view social media as a way to: • raise awareness of their products and services – their offering – and hope that this will be enough to capture new customers/clients • engage people with their organisation and hope to ‘push’ them further [...]

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“There isn’t anything false about hope”

14 January 2010

Siting down last night I watched the film/documentary, “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama”. I recorded it the other night, it was a one year on thing after he became president (I don’t know where this year has gone though…!) What an amazing, inspiring and emotional roller coaster ride of a journey. The [...]

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Have you been green too long?

8 January 2010

Have you ever been asked to take a look at a ‘possible idea’ that could really benefit X, Y or Z but felt implementing it would mean changing the status quo or proposed an idea that meets with a lot of resistance due to internal culture transition issues – i.e. departments “always do their own [...]

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Satellite image of UK covered in snow

7 January 2010

Well, this image has had quite a response on Twitter, so I thought I’d post it here to mark this day. Amazing what technology delivers – no words can do it justice… Promising -20 tonight – should be interesting tomorrow… And the other pic is outside our house…

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