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Social Media numbers – c/o Marketing Charts

July 20, 2009

Introduction I put this document together recently when I was involved with a bid recently. These incredibly useful numbers / quotes etc. were culled from the Marketing Charts website – brilliant site, although I do wonder if the companies involved ‘place’ the reports on it to further their own agenda. That said, the stats are [...]

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The Social Media pendulum starts to swing back

July 13, 2009

I was reading the Groundswell blog post below, and it got me thinking about my own use of Social Media, and how I haven’t been using Twitter quite so much recently – which is probably a *good* thing! ;-D So, I thought it might be useful to reflect a bit and also relay a couple [...]

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SCL joins NEESPR!

June 17, 2009

A post to announce that Souter Consulting Limited has joined the North East Service Provider Register. So, if you are looking for assistance around Social Media strategy & fulfilment (e.g. how can I use blogging & Twitter for my business?) Document, Information & Knowledge Management, and using collaborative technologies in general Management of Change to [...]

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Raising your Whuffie

June 12, 2009

This post looks at the importance of Social Capital online. For those of you who attended Thinking Digital recently, we were treated to Tara Hunt tour-de-force which, unfortunately, was too quick & snappy for me to live blog :-(. I’m therefore embedding the presentation so you can see for yourself. :-) Happiness as Your Business [...]

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Thinking Digital live blogs posts #tdc

May 19, 2009

Hello! Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Herb for the shout and link to my live-blogs of Thinking Digital. :-D For your convenience, this is the list of posts which have embedded Cover it Live sessions: Social Media Masterclass hosted by Stowe Boyd #TDC Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC Session Two: (Disturbing [...]

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Social Media Masterclass hosted by Stowe Boyd #TDC

May 13, 2009

At Eye on the Tyne, 9 – 11 Broad Chare, Newcastle, NE1 3DQ, 0191 261 7385 Panel Stowe Boyd, The /Messengers JP Rangaswami, BT Alex Hunter, Virgin Group Paul Smith, Twitchhiker Live blog Social Media Masterclass hosted by Stowe Boyd

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Is Spec Work Evil? The Online Creative Community Speaks

March 15, 2009

PRESENTERS Mike Samson – crowdspring.com David Carson – davidcarsondesign Jeff Howe – Wired Magazine Jeffrey Kalmikoff – skinnyCorp/Threadless Jeremiah Owyang – Forrester DESCRIPTION The ‘no-spec’ movement has long held sway in the design community but the web has created a new model for design that allows a freer exchange of ideas and inspiration, and more [...]

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Web 2.0 articles in bdaily #8 – Conclusion

March 2, 2009
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series bdaily

n.b. This was originally published on bdaily. Photo credit to bootload “Web 2.0: Conclusion With Justin Souter of Souter Consulting Part 4 [sic] of a series of articles on the application of Web 2.0 In writing this conclusion, I first would like to thank you for staying with me since January, and for your comments [...]

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How might Thinking Digital exploit Web 2.0? #TDC

February 18, 2009

This post is pretty much about what it says in the title! I met with Maxeen & Lewis from Codeworks last week and we had a think about how to maximise awareness and appreciation of Thinking Digital. Thinking Digital is an annual conference where the world’s greatest thinkers and innovators gather to inspire, to entertain, [...]

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Web 2.0 articles in bdaily #5 – How

February 4, 2009
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series bdaily

n.b. This was originally published on bdaily. Also, I originally titled last week’s blog post ‘How’, when it should have been ‘When’ – doh! Photo credit to Will Lion “Web 2.0: The ‘How’ With Justin Souter of Souter Consulting Part 4 of a series of articles on the application of Web 2.0 Detailed instructions about [...]

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