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Tech Notes article in NE Business / The Journal

September 7, 2010

Introduction In seeking to raise the profile of Souter Consulting, I recently met with Sarah Athey of Codeworks. As a result of her help and prompting, I put together an article for the Tech Notes column in The Journal, a daily paper on Tyneside and Northumberland. I thought I’d republish it here, so that anyone [...]

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Please sign up for the SCL newsletter

August 26, 2010

Introducción As trailed in a previous post, SCL’s new branding, I’m planning to fire out a (mostly) regular e-mail newsletter. My platform of choice is Mailchimp. I guess I found it through using SurveyMonkey, as the two companies (although not formally linked, I believe) had a cross-promotion going, and frankly I haven’t felt the need [...]

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Microsoft’s Online Services presentation to @NEBytes

August 25, 2010

Introduction As per my recent post about Onyx & Cloud computing, I’m interested in business opportunities in the Cloud space, rather than the more technical stuff. I guess I’m interested from the business-technical angle. I’ve recently been investigating what Microsoft is up to, and below is my presentation to the NE Bytes massive on the [...]

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I’m presenting at Nicola Cook’s “Business Building Bootcamp”

July 8, 2010

Introduction You may be aware that Nicola and I form a tremendous double-act, and deliver social media strategy workshops. Nicola has asked me to present to her upcoming business building bootcamp (more details below). Draft title is “Learning how to integrate Digital & Social Media into your lead generation strategy”. Flyer information “Do you need [...]

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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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Presentation from Cloudcamp Gateshead with slides & video of my talk

June 2, 2010

Introduction A post covering my recent attendance at CloudCamp Gateshead on May 5, 2010. The organiser, Ross Cooney, asked me to give an introduction to Cloud Computing, and was kind enough to edit the footage taken by Northern Net. As of the time of writing this post (2nd June 2010), the slides have had 8847 [...]

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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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Enterprise 2.0 – intro & questions

May 7, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Enterprise 2.0

Introduction This post has been in draft for a few weeks, so I’m making concerted effort to get it live! I’m planning to run further parts so it’s easier to digest… I believe that organisations are going to change as the impact of Web 2.0 hits them. This post, therefore, is a kick-off to get [...]

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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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Website re-design

March 31, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Re-boot

Introduction A post looking at how the SCL website has recently changed. Below the text I’ve included a video outlining the changes at the bottom. Look and feel You’ll have probably noticed a vast change from the WordPress default theme [mock up to the left] – i.e. I’m now using the Thesis theme to provide greater [...]

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