Social Networking

SCL: Ready for business!

January 26, 2009

If you’re thinking of getting in contact with SCL, I thought it would be helpful to set out where Souter Consulting Limited has got to: SCL formally established on 16th December 2008 Public liability & personal insurance now in place Bank account etc. now set up and running Marketing Obviously, this website and the blog [...]

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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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Web 2.0 articles in bdaily #2 – What

January 14, 2009
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series bdaily

n.b. This was originally published on bdaily. Photo credit to ocean.flynn “Web 2.0: The ‘What’ The ‘What’ of Web 2.0 can be difficult to pin down. Tim O’Reilly’s original description doesn’t give a succinct definition. However, the analyst Forrester defines Web 2.0 as: “A set of technologies and applications that enable efficient interaction among people, [...]

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Twitter & Social Media security issues

January 12, 2009

You may have seen the recent furore over Twyply, which seems to have turned out to be a simple way to harvest the Twitter usernames and passwords of the Great and the Good [sic]. The same Great and the Good then had to change their passwords, as this fly-by-night application was then sold on to [...]

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Series of Web 2.0 articles in bdaily

January 7, 2009

Photo credit to Daniel F. Pigatto If you follow my Twitterstream, you’ll have seen I’m putting together a series of articles on Web 2.0. Today, the first one is published, via bdaily’s e-mail and web channels. I will be re-publishing the articles on this blog, and putting a summary page on the top-right so that [...]

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Janus – looking forward and back

January 5, 2009

January is named after Janus, the Roman “god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings”. Janus looks both forward and back, and I thought it would be a suitable hook for me to do the same. Photo credit to Red Jinn Clearly, 2008 was a calamitous year for many. Timing my voluntary redundancy from Fujitsu [...]

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Making Social Media an acceptable work activity #1

November 18, 2008

Photo credit to Will Lion I attended a Partners4Business seminar last week, called “How to use Social Networking to grow your business“*. During the presentation, we had a number of discussions. One of them involved a practical example, where another attendee gave an example of the power of online opinions: He and his wife wanted [...]

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