Tom Smith
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Shameless Plug for The Dress
This weekend has been incredibly exciting watching Sophie’s latest book, The Dress, make Amazon’s top twenty Kindle bestseller list. It’s been going up and down, and up and down… and up and down. At times it seemed almost cruel of … Continue reading
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Presentations, Collaboration, Co-creation and Engagement
I’ve had an idea lurking for a while now. It’s this. The “format” of “doing a presentation” is a tried and tested one. It has been around, probably for millennia. Someone turns up, talks for a duration. Sometimes at the … Continue reading
Sophie’s New Book: Ruby Slippers
Shameless plug for Sophie who has a number of books coming out in the near future and it just so happens that this is the first. It’s a novella for sale on Amazon for the Kindle called Ruby Slippers. I … Continue reading
Take Two Google Accounts Into Shower?
Did you know that you can be logged into two Google accounts at once? This is particularly handy if your organisation uses Google Apps AND you have a personal Google account. All you have to do to enable this feature … Continue reading
Thinking Digital 2011
Another week, another conference. Last week it was Thinking Digital in the Sage on the Tyne in Newcastle. The Thinking Digital conference was appealing to because of it’s sheer geeky ecclecticism, from big social media businesses to blue sky … Continue reading
FutureEverything 2011 #futr
This week I’ve been lucky enough to go to FutureEverything 2011, a UK arts, digital, media conference-cum-festival even WIRED have heard of and enthuse about it. Any event THAT arse-achingly cool and I’m sure to fit right in. My hopes … Continue reading
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Lists Made Social
A million years ago, I was asked to help someone improve a business listing site… and one idea I came up with was, in essence, Listly (see below). It’s not for me to say I’m a genius …. waits …. … Continue reading
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The Adventures of Mr Apple Head
Here’s my Mr Apple Heads so far… from the first accident, to the pathetic attempts to trick myself to eating more fruit, to his subsequent marketing materials. Thanks to Rick at Gadget Glamour. Shame he got Mr Apple Head’s name … Continue reading
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Betta Kultcha VII Review
Last night was Betta Kultcha VII at the Corn Exchange, Leeds. It was a night of Pecha Kucha 20:20 style presentations ( that’s 20 slides, 20 second each) . I won’t go into too much detail about the presentations in … Continue reading
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Another attempt at the Death of RSS Readers
When I recently wrote about the Death of RSS Readers, it seemed that there was a wave of similar posts around the web (like this RSS is Dying ). A lot of people reacted to these Death of RSS sentiments … Continue reading
Produce, Organise, Consume
I think what I’m trying to sort out in my mind is what are the main skills that people need when being introduced to all the loveliness of Web2.0. Looking back the components might have been… Having a blog or … Continue reading
The Death of Delicious
Apologies for another “Death of…” post… just getting a few things off my chest. I was a Delicious user ( theOTHERblog ). I used it for years, often I wasn’t sure why but somehow it felt like I was building … Continue reading