Doing good online made easy

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If you have a social conscious and want to take control of the kind of web advertisements you see, help is at hand.  The DoGooder, is a new browser plug-in [...]

Top Tips to improve search rankings

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Search engines exist to help users find the web content they seek.  These top tips leverage search technology to help get your site to the top of Google [...]

Social media club Isle of Man: CI Mark Payne

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Thanks to the more than 50 people who came out last week to Super Third Thursday, this year’s first meeting of the Isle of Man Social media club.  Our speaker was [...]

Build an iPhone or Android app in 5 mins

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One of the most exciting social innovations to come along for a while is iSites, a just-launched service that lets you create a self-branded iPhone or Android application in [...]

CI Mark Payne: media and the police

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Yesterday Chief Inspector Mark Payne of the West Midlands Police spoke to the Isle of Man Social Media Club . Following the Third Thursday meeting, he and I had a fascinating conversation about [...]

Isle of Man JCC property outlook

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Last night’s  Isle of Man JCC’s Property Outlook event was sold out. No wonder! Black Grace Cowley’s Nic Cooper and Tim Groves teamed up to deliver a comprehensive, [...]

Coke’s viral Happiness Machine

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Students get more than they bargain for when a Happiness Machine replaces the soda vending machine.  This YouTube video from Coke has been viewed  +373k times in [...]

Social computing spreads across the enterprise

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Social networking tools are spreading into core areas of enterprise, including the marketing and communications, human relations, and customer service [...]

Video: joint venture with PDMS

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Moving blog; adjust your RSS

I started blogging at Strive Notes four years ago in early 2006 but the time has come to make a change.  Business has changed.  Life has changed. 
I thank everyone who has been reading commenting and contributing and invite you all to join me at my new site:  sherrilynnestarkie.com.
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Joint venture with PDMS

PDMS, the software development firm specialising in web development services, has forged an alliance with Sherrilynne Starkie, managing partner of Strive Public Relations, to help organisations to build, manage and engage with online communities through social computing.
As part of PDMS’ Digital Design service, the new venture provides a unique combination of deep software engineering expertise [...]

New social site: MyBrandz

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A new social networking site, MyBrandz, was launched today in Beta.  The idea is to bring all brand fans together to discuss, share and update each other aboutthe brands they love.
MyBrandz places the brand at the heart of its web service – the MyBrandz Matrix – a dynamic compass mapping the brand world [...]