The British Computer Society Isle of Man section kicked off this season’s calendar of events with an excellent presentation by author Peter Wheatcroft who discussed world class IT services delivery.
It was quite a coup for the Isle of Man section to get Peter to visit our shores.
He’s a much sought after speaker and consultant and [...]
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Markettools has just released a report that reveals that more than two-thirds (68 percent) of online adults say they visit online blogs, communities or social networks, and 33 percent engage in product research online to help make purchase decisions.
It’s more evidence that organisations, especially companies who sell products or services need to get serious about [...]
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Wow, September is almost gone already! Here are my top five posts from the PR blogosphere this past week.
1. Sally Whittle has some excellent advice for newbies on pitching trade media.
2. Deborah Zanke tells us how to get media coverage for fundraising events.
3. Today, having a degree means nothing. It’s all about intelligence and creativity. [...]
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Want a free ticket to the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo Europe? It’s taking place in Berlin on October 21-23. The three-day conference and exhibition is for designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, business strategists and anyone passionate about creating a better web ecosystem. You get free entry to all conference sessions, workshops and [...]
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Had a great time at the Claremont Hotel in Douglas tonight. They are launching their newly refurbished conference facilities and a new state-of-the-art boardroom facility and invited people to come along to take a look and have a taste of the menu on offer. The facilities are really great…fantastic IT infrastructure and presentation kit. The [...]
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Here is an excellent example of how having a blog can help a company in a crisis. Bill Marriott, chairman and CEO of Marriott International, has been blogging since at least January 2007. He is widely read by employees, customers and the tourism industry in general. He comments on a range of topics from employment [...]
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We’ve published an e-newsletter for those who may not be using RSS and newsfeeds, but would still be interested in reading our news and information about media, marketing and communications.
If you’re getting Strive Notes via RSS and don’t wish to receive the newsletter, just send a message and we’ll remove you from the list. Or, [...]
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Do you think of cloud computing as some advanced theoretical concept that only super geeks and rocket scientists really understand? Nothing could be further from the truth; you are probably already in the cloud in some way.Ask yourself the following questions.
Do I use Hotmail, Gmail or any other similar email service?
Do I have a Facebook [...]
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1. Rohit has a right good rant about Kellogg’s Lego Fun Snacks. Why do people hate marketers?
2. Jeremiah gives a interesting explanation of how VCs and tech analysts are similar yet different in their perspectives when engaging with entrepreneurs.
3. Chris Brogan has an excellent discussion going about defining web authority. There’s a lot of comments [...]
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We’ve recently welcomed a new voice in social media to the Isle of Man. Derek ‘The Bandit’ Richardson has just relocated from South Africa and you’ll soon be hearing him at weekends on 3FM. But when he’s not entertaining Island residents with his take on dance music, he’s pretty busy online. He’s got two podcasts: [...]
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Thanks to everyone who came out to today’s Isle of Man Social Media Club Third Thursday lunch. We covered everything from libel to Graffiti to Podcasting to Technorati to the need for a great foodie blog in the Isle of Man. As always I learned a lot. I hope you all did too. See the [...]
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The third Thursday of each month, the Isle of Man Social Media Club meets. This month, Third Thursday is tomorrow, 18 September, 12.30 at Paparazzi, Douglas Promenade. Everyone is welcome. But should you come?
Anyone who is interested in journalism, publishing, communication, art, media, teaching, learning, Internet, marketing. In short, anyone who is curious about how [...]
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Tonight, at the Sefton hotel in Douglas, Martin Blackburn, emergency planning officer will be speaking to the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
It’s a subject that we all worry about and then put to the back of our heads – what would really happen if the Island suffered a major incident? How would the hospitals cope? Could [...]
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Tales of economic doom and gloom have been filling news pages around the world for about a year now, since we first heard the term ‘credit crunch‘.
But it seems that the IT industry has been immune to the economic downturn with all indicators showing that things were holding steady in IT budgets.
That was until last [...]
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Every once in a while a journalist, a blogger or commenter will push things just a little too far. I’ve been accused of it myself once or twice. Usually I’m happy to make things right.
Today the Independent on Sunday teaches us all a lesson on how to write an apology for publication [...]
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Well that was the week that was. There’s little more to say, except here is my list of some of the blog posts I enjoyed reading the most over the past week.
1. Jeremiah Owyang makes some good points about why some start ups need to hire PR professionals.
2. Lee Hopkins gives an [...]
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It’s been seven years since I stood in stunned silence watching through my office window as the the Pentagon burned. It’s been seven years since I first understood why the word terrorism is such an accurate descriptor.
Life has moved on, but each year on September 11, I think about the people who [...]
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A blog is traditionally written by someone who knows what they’re talking about. However this blog post on blogging isn’t. I didn’t even know what blogging stood for until I recently read a book on the subject, Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
It has opened my eyes up [...]
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Last evening, after a pretty trying day, I spoiled myself by sitting down in a quiet room and reading the newspaper. For someone who usually only finds time to scan a website, it was a real treat. The Isle of Man Examiner is still published as a broadsheet, and I [...]
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It was last November when I first wrote about Google Android. At that time the company had just announced the launch of an open source mobile phone platform that would put it into direct competition with both Microsoft and Symbian.
But what set them apart was that they issued it under [...]
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I learned a lot more about how the Internet impacts public relations this week. Here are my picks of the best stories:
1. Ten ways to measure the ROI of social media; Charles Helfin has some really good advice on evaluation.
2. Susan Getgood points us to some excellent Internet [...]
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Astonishingly few companies within the UK are benefiting from the advantages that come from world class accredited service management. This talk presents a distillation of the best practices in IT service delivery. We will touch on existing and developing global IT standards, and IT performance aspirations including ITIL v3 and related best practice methodologies
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If you think that blogging is just for geeks and emo teens you’re wrong. Debbie Weil, renowned communications consultant and author, has put together the definitive list of 67 Big Brand Blogs. The list covers global leaders of a range of industries from Accenture in finance to technology leaders Cisco to Harley-Davidson [...]
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How do newspapers choose which case studies make their pages? What’s the difference between pitching a feature to the FT and a column to the Mailon Sunday? On September 9th 2008, the folks at the:101 are giving people the opportunity to sit down with experienced BBC and national journalists to [...]
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With many global brands such as Ford, Coke and Harvard Business School getting into it, blogging has gone quite mainstream, in the USA at least.
But the corporate world is now just waking up the world of microblogging, Twitter, Plurk and Spoink, if you like. So when Exxon Mobil jumped into [...]
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