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media

United breaks Guitars; share price dips (allegedly)

July 27, 2009

I realise that for many of your seasoned observers, this is old hat. However, having been told about this at lunch yesterday by Caroline’s Daughter and Son-in-Law, I thought I would have a look into this, as it appears to be part of a growing trend of smart people employing social media to get heard. [...]

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How Teenagers consume media and other stories

July 24, 2009

Last week there was a bit of a to-do when a teenager, working as a Summer intern at the investment bank Morgan Stanley, was suddenly propelled to his 15 minutes of fame by the MS PR machine. His report below was published and kicked off a mini media storm (well ok, some City analysts were [...]

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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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Session Seven: (Thinking Post-Digital) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Ben Hammersley, Wired Magazine UK Darius Pocha, Enable Interactive Andy Redfern, Ethical Superstore Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor Live blog Session Seven: (Thinking Post-Digital)

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Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Oonagh Cassidy, singer Erik Huggers, BBC Matt Mason, author of The Pirates Dilemma Russell Davies & Ben Terrett UPDATE: it was actually Kerstin Mogull who delivered the BBC slot. Live blog Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents)

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Session Three: (Thinking Digital) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel The Sancho Plan Johnny Chung Lee, Microsoft Adrian Hon, Six to Start Dan Lyons, Newsweek Magazine Live blog Session Three: (Thinking Digital)

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Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services Alex Hunter, Virgin Group Tara Shears, Large Hadron Collider & Liverpool University Curtis Wong, Microsoft Live blog Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe)

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Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Paul Miller, School of Everything Harry Drnec, former CEO, Red Bull UK Dr James TerKeurst, The Institute of Digital Innovation Mike Southon, The Financial Times Live blog Session One: (Present at the Creation) Technorati Tags: north east england,gateshead,education,ideas,thinking digital,media,innovation

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Social Media at CONNECT North East

May 11, 2009

  This post sets out the work I have been doing with CONNECT North East which, in its own words, is:  ”the newest branch of the highly successful CONNECT network, which brokers introductions between young technology companies and investors. CONNECT North East’s role is to strengthen the links between the region’s young technology businesses and [...]

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Transatlantic Troubleshooting: Getting into Europe’s New Media Market

March 14, 2009

Live blogging session, flying the flag for the Brits (any other European peeps on the panel?) PRESENTERS Mike Butcher – TechCrunch Mike Teasdale – Chinwag/Harvest Digital Stewart Townsend – Sun Microsystems Aleks Krotoski – Chinwag/UKTI Nigel Eccles – Hubdub.com DESCRIPTION The European market with over 500 million citizens is an enormous single market, with the [...]

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