Yesterday on Thinking Home Business I wrote about the new web content aggregator site Alltop and observed that it is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to get a quick, interesting overview of current online coverage of their favorite topic. That post was focused on the Small Business category on Alltop. This deswalsh.com site is [...]
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I’ve signed a few non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) - or confidentiality agreements - in my time, one quite recently. But while I can bring to mind plenty of good deals I’ve done with people on a handshake, even a virtual handshake, I can’t recall a single good deal that has started with signing an NDA before we [...]
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I think we can take it as read that any contemporary senior executive has at some point considered the possibility of his or her company having to deal with criticism, even a concerted campaign of criticism, online. It would be interesting to know whether many of those executives have taken that thought to the next [...]
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Ever since visiting China for the first time late last year and being hit with the statistics of growth in Internet usage as well as other aspects such as the much greater proportion of time spent online compared with the West, I have been endeavouring to make sense of what all of this might mean [...]
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Q. What’s the difference between Boston, Massachusetts and Brisbane, Queensland? A. A lot. At opposite ends of the earth, for one thing. Different climates and time zones. I could go on. But the point of this post is really that Boston has an obviously thriving Social Media Club and Brisbane doesn’t have one at all. Well, not just yet, but [...]
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(Photograph: Spring Blossom by Steve Knight) It’s not actually Spring for me, it’s Autumn here, but for most of the people who read this blog it is Spring, traditionally a time to clean house. This post is about applying that thinking to updating our profiles on the social networking site LinkedIn. The thought was prompted when I [...]
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Got up very early yesterday to take in the Vocus + Society for New Communications Research webinar on the Social Media Release. The very knowledgeable panel: Thom Brodeur, Chris Heuer, Monika Maeckle and Brian Solis. Moderator: Jiyan Wei of Vocus and blogger at New Influencer. As indicated by Jiyan in his blog post of February 26, the [...]
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Just over a week ago, I had the great good fortune and privilege of attending and participating in a 90 minute session with Miha Pogacnik. I had learned about Miha, and his visit to the nearby city of Brisbane, through my membership of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia-Pacific and Australia (CSTC), an online community [...]
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Right now, with more than enough commitments to keep me busy, September seems a long time away. But whatever else I’m doing in the intervening time, or afterwards, I have a definite diary entry to be in Las Vegas for the 2nd BlogWorld & New Media Expo, September 20-21 and the Executive & Entrepreneur conference the [...]
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What do the the television remote and the social media site Yovia have in common? For me, it’s the ability to shut out the unwelcome noise of advertisements. Photo by plasti20 The tv remote with its mute button has to be one of the best inventions of all time, giving us the ability to watch programs without having [...]
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