PODCASTI was not shocked to read the headline City drops apostrophes from signs.
It just made me sad to read that the city of Birmingham, Britain’s second city, has decided not use the possesive apostrophe on signs in the future. They say this decision will cut costs and avoid confusion.
Why am I sad? Because I [...]
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Today I got some feedback about my weekly newspaper column Tech Talk, and I thought I should address it.
Apparently an Isle of Man-based company has remarked to a government official about something I wrote. It seems I’d mentioned some of this company’s competitors in one of my articles and made no [...]
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For more than two years now, I’ve been banging on about the read/write web, social media and online networks in these pages in the hopes that readers will start to get as excited as I am about the new opportunities offered by Web 2.0.
Finally, I’m seeing signs that enthusiasm in the Isle of [...]
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February’s meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club is open to all and is taking on a whole new personality. The first-ever Super ThirdThursday takes place on 19 February, 12.30 to 14.00 at the Claremont in Douglas.
First of all, you don’t have to buy your own lunch because Strive PR is sponsoring the [...]
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Next week, January 27 to 29, like many people from the Isle of Man, I’ll be heading to London to attend the ICEi, part of the International Gaming Exhibition which is the UK’s biggest trade show for people involved in egaming.
More than 2,500 people will flock to Earls Court to see more than [...]
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You cannot understate the importance of role the internet plays in modern public relations. This video from RealWire succinctly explains it all.
Hat tip: Stephen Davies
The Online Media from RealWire on Vimeo.
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It’s a really busy time for us, but I’ve been trying to keep an eye on who’s saying what. Here are my picks of some of the best content from the last week or so.
1. Dave Winer explains how investigative research happens in the blogosphere. But is this collaborative, open approach really journalism? [...]
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Recently a Gen Y woman I know said, “Give up blogging! It’s so last year!” I quipped back, “But in the Isle of Man it’s so two years from now!”
Fortunately I’ve seen a lot of evidence over the last quarter that proves me wrong. People and organisations are starting to ‘get’ this whole [...]
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ThirdThursday was a rather ‘intimate affair’ this month and I thank John Jamie, Charlotte, Chris, Nathan, Charlie and Owen for attending.
One thing is clear, we need to make a few changes to breath some fresh life into this initiative, so that’s what we are going to do.
Next month, we’re going to change the venue, have [...]
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Scholz & Friends: “Dramatic shift in marketing reality from Michael Reissinger on Vimeo.
I love this simple, humourous animation that summarises what marketing was and is now.
Hat tip: Adverblog.
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Danish journalists have adopted a new manifesto regarding linking which nicely summarise how the global news industry should be working. It’s a good framework for bloggers too. Journalism.co.uk published the six laws in English:
First law: We link to the sources for the data we use in our journalistic products. If [...]
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Happy New Year one and all. Welcome to the first Tech Talk of 2009!
And what a wonderful time it is to be working in the technology industry, right? Nah…it’s all doom and gloom and, methinks, things will get worse before they get better.
It seems that IT professionals in the North West are already [...]
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All you December linkers and commenters, please feel the love from Strive Notes (better late than never!) :
Derek
Owen Cutajar
Steve Burrows FBCS CITP
Michael Buechele
David Jones
Social Media Wiz
Susan Getgood
Dan Karran
Sally Whittle
Leo
Nathan Pledger
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The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the Third Thursday of each month and that means next week, 15 January, we’ll be meeting for lunch at Paparazzi on the Douglas Promenade. 12.30 -14.00. Everyone with an interested in blogging, Facebook, podcasts, Twitter, etc is welcome.
The Third Thursday initiative has four main aims.
We want to share [...]
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The United States Air Force has published a great planogram on assessing social media risks. It gives an excellent roadmap on how/if to react to blog mentions that could be easily adapted to most corporates and follows many of the same principles that we use to advise our clients.
I don’t know where it was originally [...]
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What’s all this we’re hearing about the death of the embargo, thanks to Michael Arrington of Techcrunch?
IMHO the much touted embargo has always been a myth. I’ve been in this biz for more than a few years and have worked in different global markets and in all that time, I’ve only ever once [...]
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There’s been some really fabulous end-of-year and forward-looking posts over the past few days. Here’s my pick of the top five (in no particular order):
1. Follow celebrities on Twitter. Fun!
2. The rise of the uber blog is predicted by Duncan Riley.
3. Steve Hodson is getting fed up with all this nattering about Twitter. [...]
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