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Bigging up the Thinking Digital (#TDC) conference

January 27, 2009

I’ve been asked to act as an Ambassador for the 2009 Thinking Digital conference. What this means is that I get a Press Pass for helping promote Thinking Digital. I also intend to use Social Media as an experiment to cover my feedback, probably through CoveritLive via my blog, and Twitter etc.. “What is Thinking [...]

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Web 2.0 articles in bdaily #3 – Why

January 21, 2009
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series bdaily

Image credit – bgblogging “Web 2.0: The ‘Why’ With Justin Souter of Souter Consulting Part 3 of a series of articles on the application of Web 2.0 All eyes yesterday were fixed on Barack Obama, who (as well as winning the race for the US presidency) used online tools decisively to market himself, raise money, [...]

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SCL Business Plan progress

January 15, 2009

Photo credit to Raymond Yee Quick post regarding the business plan for Souter Consulting Limited: I put together a document with my thoughts about how to proceed, immediately on leaving Fujitsu Services Was advised to get in touch with Business Link by Matthew Rippon To get assistance with business start up To get funding for [...]

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How Business and Enterprise North East plans to share information

December 15, 2008

I recently attended a Bridge Club event, where Caroline Theobald had one of her ‘conversations’ with Alastair MacColl, boss of Business & Enterprise North East Ltd (I’m going to foreshorten them to BE-NE here). BE-NE are best known for running Business Link in the North East of England, but have other strings to their corporate [...]

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Embedding video on this blog – experiment

December 8, 2008

Morning all! Rather than ask everyone what they think the best video site is, I thought I’d have a play myself. :-) I took the clip below with my Blackberry a couple of weeks back – just over 60 seconds of rough footage. The test has a number of different aspects: Will the sites accept [...]

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Gillian Taylforth meets the Groundswell

November 10, 2008

Photo credit to rg & bo I have in front of me a copy of Woman’s Own [best link I could find], dated 10 November 2008 – 87p.* Specifically, the inside back page features a column called “Gillian – welcome to my World!”. It continues “She’s smart, surprising, & straight-talking”. The Gillian concerned is Gillian [...]

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Miss Geeky at DigitalCity

November 5, 2008

Quick write-up of a star performance by Melinda Seckington at last night’s First Wednesday event, run by DigitalCity (part of Teesside Uni’s Institute of Digital Innovation). Melinda runs her own website, Miss Geeky, and has used many social media tools to help her form a new set of friends – having moved to London from [...]

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Rozmic – a Cloud success story

October 29, 2008

A note to recount my visit to Ross & Helen at Rozmic on Tuesday afternoon. Their main offering is scanning your e-mail for viruses, spam, etc., and cleaning it before it reaches your mail servers. Apparently this has been a consistently good seller, for understandable reasons. In the past, their business growth has been constrained [...]

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Animmersion assignment

October 24, 2008

A note regarding my first piece of consultancy, in my brave new world! Yesterday afternoon I visited the good people of Animmersion, [in their own words] a "professional visualisation studio" in Middlesbrough. They are affiliated with DigitalCity, having started as graduate business at the Teesside University. <quick plug> “Animmersion UK Ltd are specialists in applying [...]

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