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Digital Mission – SXSWi Here We Come
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Loading ...Digital Mission, Round 5, starts this week. That means I’m off to join over 17,000 of the world’s Interactive/Digital industry folks at SXSW for Digital Mission to SXSWi ‘10, together with 40 of the UKs hottest Digital Media businesses. Sam, CEO of founders/organisers Chinwag explains more:
The group includes around 90 people, and there will be other [...]
Auto Unfriend – The Business of Relationships
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Social Networking sites and social technologies have made it easier to ‘acquire’ and ‘keep in touch’ with ‘friends’. I use the quote marks advisedly. Most social platforms are focused on these aspects of relationships, but that might not be the best game in town.
This post is partially triggered by Euan Semple’s own post on friendships, [...]
BootStrapCamp – Starting From Nothing But a Community
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August is meant to be a quiet month, but it definitely isn’t here – things are starting up left, right and centre. I like that.
I’m generally a fan of starting things, especially starting them with minimal means. I know that might sound less than exciting, but my experience has been that creativity starts where budgets [...]
The Social Media Expert – Wicked Problems And Failure
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Twitter played host to a passionate discussion about social media experts earlier this week, kicked off by a blog post: 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Brand Yourself as a Social Media Expert by Dan Schawbel, who describes himself as “the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y” – reading the post I would say he’s wrong on [...]
The Social Side of Search – WolframAlpha Wikis Google and Twitter
(click and rate it) Loading ...You can’t so much as sneeze on the web at the moment without hearing about Wolfram Alpha - it is a veritable Swine Flu of the Interwebs – lots of noise, but very hard to sift out real facts. Wolfram Alpha describes its long-term goal as “[making] all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.” Smells like [...]
Change From Within
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We want to change things, it is in our very nature to want to make change. But change isn’t an easy thing. Managing change is so complex that you can take whole degree courses in it. That said, there are some fundamental principles that unlock it.
Too Late To Learn?
(click and rate it) Loading ...Tortoises. That’s it. Tortoises. We all need to be like tortoises. I’ve been listening to what John Cleese has to say in the video clip here, which is what got me thinking about them. I have to admit, it wasn’t where I started thinking. You might not associate tortoises with creativity or learning, but they [...]
