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‘Tis the season when all those bright young grads return from university looking to get on the first rung of the career ladder. Based on some of the interviews I’ve been involved in lately, here’s some tips for young professionals who want to make a good first impression.
1. Don’t let your [...]
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The Isle of Man Junior Chamber of Commerce welcomed experts from the Island’s private and public sectors speaking on “The Economic Outlook” yesterday. Zahed Miah, member of the Junior Chamber’s executive council (centre) welcomed a large crowd of members and guests to the breakfast gathering.
Steve Carse, (left) economic advisor to the Isle of Man [...]
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I felt incredibly lucky to be able to attend the Social Technologies Summit, part of Futuresonic2009, in Manchester earlier this month.
It’s an international conference that brings together 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers and technologist to explore digital culture and the concepts and ideas being bandied about were a bit mind blowing: the [...]
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As it’s a bank holiday I’ve got some extra time to read up. Here’s my list of what I liked.
1. Dave Fleet asks if your organisation has multiple personalities in this thoughtful post on customer service and social media. Twitter, blogs or any online interaction can’t plug holes in your customer service provision. Work on [...]
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Cmypitch.com is an online community site and marketplace for entrepreneurs. It’s divided into seven key channels: start-ups, SMEs, businesses For sale, franchises, business opportunities, Entrepreneur TV and the business directory with 60,000 listings of professional advisors, licensed from Thomson Directories.
The site also features blogs by subject experts which aim to provide advice, tips and guidance [...]
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I’m not one to blow my own horn (erm…well maybe I am guilty of that on occasion), but I have to admit I’m pretty darned pleased that Strive Notes has again made the PR Week’s Best of the Tech Blogs listing this week. I’m especially pleased to be in such great company. Two bloggers who [...]
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We had a capacity crowd come out this week to the Isle of Man Social Media Club’s Super Third Thursday get together. The focus was on eDemocracy and how the interactive web is changing politics and democracy. Simon Collister, who hails from Ramsey, was our speaker and he gave us a fascinating insight into how [...]
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The BCS Isle of Man Section meets this week for a short AGM. Once business is completed, Chris Davies, chief operating officer of Intelligence Limited will discuss the ‘implications for project management in an uncertain Island economy’.
Chris has more than 25 years experience of the IT industry in a variety of roles including hardware and [...]
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Down on your luck? When looking for a job, the old adage ‘it’s who you know’ has never been more true because online social networks are rife with opportunity for job seekers.
And for professional people in the Isle of Man that means LinkedIn. I’ve been on LinkedIn since early 2006, but it wasn’t [...]
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Here’s some cool stuff I saw in the PR blogosphere this week.
1. These two ladies have put together an excellent list of UK-based Mommy bloggers.
2. Bernard Lunn analyses journalism 2.0 and offers some insight into how keep quality high and monetise content.
3. Steve Rubel asks if Twitter could replace email as the way to pitch [...]
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Where are those green shoots that people keep mentioning? Certainly they are not on the High Street. Retail sales continue to decline, thanks to the recession and many traditional, independent shopkeepers are struggling.
That said, internet sales have grown by 25% year on year in the last quarter, so there is something to be [...]
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With A-list celebrities like Oprah, Ashton and Britney piling on to Twitter with followers numbering in the hundreds of thousands, millions even, interest in the micro blogging service has never been more acute.
Organisations are looking at the social network platform seriously as a channel for marketing and other mass market communications. And of [...]
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This morning I was dismayed, if not surprised, to see that C/net had picked up on the story about the Isle of Man’s KKK Facebook site.
The story had come to my attention a few days ago via the Island grapevine and then I saw news accounts of it from both [...]
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Manx-born Simon Collister, a recognised UK expert on eDemocracy, is speaking to the Isle of Man Social Media Club’s Third Thursday breakfast meeting at the Claremont hotel in Douglas, 21 May, 2009, 7.30 a.m.
Thanks to sponsorship from Charterhouse Group International the event is free and everyone is welcome.
The Isle of Man Social Media Club, with [...]
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