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Thinking Digital 2011

Benjamin and Sam

Two CEOs, three days, 8 hours of train journey and one Thinking Digital 2010. Talking technology, ideas and the future in Newcastle. I’ve been wanting to go to Thinking Digital for a number of years, and this year I finally made it, joining long-time Thinking Digital attendee Sam Michel (CEO of Chinwag, who were also one of […]

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Business to Business Social Media – DellB2B Huddle

Photo with thanks to Mel Carson of Microsoft Advertising At Dell’s second Business to business social media event, Neville Hobson gave a great overview of the current status quo in social media. My synopsis: Social media is about relationships. Word of mouth has an increasing impact on purchasing behaviour, and social media accelerates word of […]

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Community Relations

Friday is Audana’s Social Media in Business ’10 aka SMiB, in London, and just like last years Social Media in Business event, I’ll be interviewing many of the speakers via ipadio in the run up. The theme of this year’s event is community relations. I think the term nicely encapsulates how “forum moderation” has grown […]

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Put it in the Diary

Things have been frenetically busy with projects and event-related travel, with longer form writing taking a bit of a back seat, given the amount of coding and blog set up going on around the office as well. That hasn’t stopped the tweeting of course! WordPress training activity has also stepped up a notch, with more demand […]

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Up a Gum Tree – With Everywhere to Go

Gumtree Jellies

Success has its challenges. Anyone who has a web presence already popular with visitors, but wanting to increase the use of the site, as well as attracting new audiences, has a tall order on their hands. On Thursday I spent an evening in the company of the Gumtree crew at their Richmond offices, along with a […]

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Gordon Brown Announces “Second Generation” Government

Well, he didn’t say Gov 2.0, but he may as well have done. This morning UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a sweeping set of changes to the way that technology is used in government. In a speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future, he was talking about digital technology’s role in a plan to secure recovery, growth […]

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Digital Mission – SXSWi Here We Come

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 […]

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