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Movember: please help raise money to combat men’s cancers

November 4, 2011

Intro [this is crossed-posted from my personal blog] Pretty much a ‘Ronseal‘ post – does what it says in the title! This post gives you some of the background to Movember, explains how things work (and my twist on the theme), and then encourages you to donate your hard-earned cash to a very worthy cause. [...]

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Technology to support innovation

June 21, 2010

Intro A post about my interest in tools to support idea gathering and the innovation process. Part of a growing series [ok, so I'll make it part of a series when I do the next post ;-)]. Definition As ever, Wikipedia provides a decent definition: Innovation is a change in the thought process for doing [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – so what are your next steps?

May 20, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 3 in the series Enterprise 2.0

Introduction Part 4 in a series about the impact that Web 2.0 could make on the organisation / business. In this post, I’ll attempt to synthesise some ideas about what is going on, and what it all means for you. Ok, so here it goes re my thoughts I think there is an upcoming and [...]

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Meet my mentees – Asad and Emilie

May 19, 2010

Introduction I’ve been doing some informal mentoring with a couple of students at Newcastle University, so here’s a bit more information about them. The post is in the form of bullet points, as I’m rather rushed at the mo’. Asad Imam Asad is originally from India – more in fo about him on his LinkedIn [...]

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SCL entry into IWCYC Challenge

May 6, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Re-boot

Introduction The Entrepreneurs Forum is a network local to the North East of England, designed to help entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. They run a website called ‘If we can, you can’, and thereby a yearly challenge to find the most dynamic entrepreneurs in the Region. I’ve noticed that there are regular business competitions locally (e.g. in [...]

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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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Byte Night 09 – the sleepover @ The BALTIC

October 6, 2009

A write-up of the combined exploits of Byte Night 09 North East. At last it has arrived! I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive before the event. I had done some prep – as documented here and here. But I was a bit in the dark about what was happen, so really wanted [...]

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Update on WP hack

September 6, 2009

Intro For those of you who follow me via my @souterconsults account, you will have seen me have a paddy on this Friday last. That’s because my WP instance got hacked. Meh :$ So, I thought it would be useful to update anyone interested with a quick run-down, as it sets the scene for any [...]

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Please help me raise money for Action for Children #bytenight

August 10, 2009

I’ve decided to take part in Byte Night, a rather good Tech Industry fund-raiser, probably because I’ve seen photos of Jenny Agutter in Computing each year, and think it might be a good laugh. Speak it softly, but I’m sort of looking forward to donning a whole load of technical gear, as my interest in [...]

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Digital Transport event feedback

July 9, 2009

I recently helped organise the “Where do you think You’re going” event that was held by Newcastle University at Hoults Yard. This post is a quick bulleted list of my feedback, and also a highlight of material from James Burke. Thoughts Content Eclectic and genuinely thought-provoking Presenters were clearly experts in their fields [well, from [...]

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