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Tech Notes article in NE Business / The Journal

September 7, 2010

Introduction In seeking to raise the profile of Souter Consulting, I recently met with Sarah Athey of Codeworks. As a result of her help and prompting, I put together an article for the Tech Notes column in The Journal, a daily paper on Tyneside and Northumberland. I thought I’d republish it here, so that anyone [...]

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Discover what I read / have read

August 6, 2010

Intro Reading helps me keep up with the latest developments, learn about best practice, and stimulate new thinking. I’ve found myself recommending books to folk I meet, usually via an e-mail. To try and short-circuit this somewhat clunky approach (and make a trickle-feed of associate wonga), I’ve created this Amazon Associates store. If imitation is [...]

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I’m presenting at Nicola Cook’s “Business Building Bootcamp”

July 8, 2010

Introduction You may be aware that Nicola and I form a tremendous double-act, and deliver social media strategy workshops. Nicola has asked me to present to her upcoming business building bootcamp (more details below). Draft title is “Learning how to integrate Digital & Social Media into your lead generation strategy”. Flyer information “Do you need [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – intro & questions

May 7, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Enterprise 2.0

Introduction This post has been in draft for a few weeks, so I’m making concerted effort to get it live! I’m planning to run further parts so it’s easier to digest… I believe that organisations are going to change as the impact of Web 2.0 hits them. This post, therefore, is a kick-off to get [...]

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Aurora Training partners with Souter Consulting to deliver social media strategy workshops

May 5, 2010

Organisations wishing to kick off their social media efforts – but not knowing where to start – can look to Aurora Training & Souter Consulting to give them a led up!

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Website re-design

March 31, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Re-boot

Introduction A post looking at how the SCL website has recently changed. Below the text I’ve included a video outlining the changes at the bottom. Look and feel You’ll have probably noticed a vast change from the WordPress default theme [mock up to the left] – i.e. I’m now using the Thesis theme to provide greater [...]

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SCL 2.0

March 26, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Re-boot

Introduction This post is the first in a series about how I’m re-booting Souter Consulting Limited. The posts in this series hopefully show at the top right when you read this – automagically! Relaunching the business I’ve recently had a couple of meetings where the feedback has caused me to think about how SCL presents [...]

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Testimonials

February 17, 2010

Intro A post about recent work that Souter Consulting carried out on behalf of two North East England customers: Digital Transport event at Newcastle University CONNECT North East Please read on for more details. Digital Transport Souter Consulting Limited was approached by Hannah Bryan, at the time working as part of the Newcastle University School [...]

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Belated write-up of TaaD event – ‘Social media: beyond the hype’

November 20, 2009

A recap of this event, with photos and the presentations (where possible). Intro “Your Honour, being conscious that it’s a while since the ‘Social media: beyond the hype’ event at the end of October, I’d like to plead in mitigation that I’ve had a couple of bouts of ‘flu since then, and a broadband cut-off [...]

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TaaD event – Social media: beyond the hype

October 26, 2009

Introduction Quick plug for this event by organised by Codeworks Connect this coming Thursday. As credited by Herb Kim at the recent TEDxNewcastle, I am helping to ‘produce’ the evening – i.e. Herb and the team were kind enough to adopt my rough concept for the evening – and organise it! :-D Aims (from my [...]

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