The Isle of Man blogosphere growing (slowly but surely). And this week has seen two highlights. First of all, Derek ‘The Bandit’ Richardson’s excellent South African tech podcast, Switched On, featured quite a long discussion about life (and technology) in the Isle of Man.
Also, my blogging friend from the North, Babooshka of the Ramsey Daily [...]
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Ok! Enough of all the optimism. I’ve been trying to keep these columns focused on the positive stories about the technology sector, but it seems silly to continue to ignore the biggest story of year: the economy.
In fact, even Bank of England Governor Mervin King has finally used the dreaded ‘R’ word and the impact [...]
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Venue: Ballakermeen High School, Douglas
Date: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Speaker: Dotperformance
Time: Doors opened at 18:00 for an 18:30 start.
Web site visibility – the ease with which potential customers or visitors can find a web site among a myriad of competitors – is a crucial factor in a site’s success or failure. Hundreds of new websites are [...]
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1. Debbie Ng had a right rant about clients which made me laugh. I especially enjoyed the comments about the IT guy. Giggle.
2. In ‘Why you need to be looking at Twitter’, Mitch Joel explains the basics and talks about the microblogging service’s potential for organisations.
3. Donovan Sharkey’s analysis of some recent data on the [...]
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Thanks to everyone who came out last night to the Isle of Man Social Media Club’s ThirdThursday meet up. I was a bit disorganised in setting it up and so we were a week late, but eight social media enthusiasts showed up, and we had an interesting discussion, nonetheless. Check out Owen’s blog for pix [...]
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Paul Ballard hit me with a meme earlier this week. In the spirit of sharing a bit about myself and fun, here we go!
Top three non work websites:
Weightwatchers
Facebook
eBay
Top three karaoke songs:
American Woman
Moonage Dayream
Like a virgin
Top three weekend cocktails:
G&T
Gin and Tonic
Gordons and Scheweppes
The three people I am tagging are:
Nickop
Kathryn B
Leo
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I’m chuffed to have been invited to take part on the upcoming FIR live panel discussion on the value of PR for start ups. Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz are co-chairing and so far the panel includes:
Rob Lane, CEO, Overlay TV (and several previous startups)
Mike Manuel, PR practitioner, Voce Communications
Katie Paine, KD Paine & Partners, [...]
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How can you make a business out of something that is available for free? It seems an unlikely model for business success, but the people at the bottled water companies sure seem to have it figured out.
However, it’s something that folks in the open source community have been grappling with for years. If your software [...]
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Just a note to let everyone know there will be a meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club this Thursday at 18.00 at Paparazzi in Douglas.
The club’s credo is ‘if you get it, share it’. And that’s what these get togethers are all about. Anyone with an interest in Facebook, blogging, Twitter, LinkedIn [...]
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I just spent a half hour going through the profiles of some of the people following me on Twitter. I had assumed that as my follower/following were just about the same that I knew most of my followers.
How wrong I was. I was surprised to see that I was not following half of my followers. [...]
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All you August and September linkers and commenters, please feel the love from Strive Notes:
Paul Stallard
Owen Cutajar
Steve Coleman
Nick Pledger
Reg Crowder
Travelwires.com
Leo Cussons
Antony Mayfield
Neville Hobson
Beyond Digital Media
Chris Heuer
Leo Bottary
Sally Whittle
Rachel M. Esterline
Tom Altman
John McGlothlen
Chris Brogan
David Jones
Nickop
Massimo Carraro
Nathan Pledger
DEREK”TheBandit’s”Blog
Paul Stallard
Deborah Zanke
Babooshka
Chris Bishops
Angela Maiers
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A couple of sleepless nights means that I’ve had time to catch up on my reading. Here’s some stuff I really liked.
1. Some excellent advice for PR newbies from Matthew Stibbe. Don’t ring and say, ‘Did you get the press release?’ Sound familiar anyone?
2. More good advice. How to write headlines that pop, from Flack’s [...]
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Well actually it is ThirdThursday and we should be having a meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club today. But with all the travelling I’ve been doing lately, it kind of sneaked up on me. I only just realised a minute ago that today should be the day. So what should we do? [...]
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Technorati is the Google of the blogging world. It’s the most comprehensive source of information on the ‘blogosphere‘ and, since 2004 the company has published an annual report which analyses the trends and themes of blogging, and this year’s study makes for interesting reading.
Technorati tracks blogs in 81 languages and bloggers from 66 countries across [...]
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I’ve always thought that the Isle of Man is a paradox. The Island prides itself on its Victorian heritage and cleaves to technologies of yesteryear with the electric and steam trains along with horse-drawn trams and the Laxey Wheel.
And at the same time it showcases some of the best telecommunications and IT infrastructures in [...]
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