I am doomed. I have suspected as much for some time now, but a new study makes me almost sure. I think I may be an internet addict. Evidence comes in the form of an article published by Dr Jerald Block in the respected American Journal of Psychiatry.
He argues that internet addiction is now so [...]
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Imagine somebody is having a dinner party – inviting your customers, staff, shareholders and regulators – and you are not there.
That is the scenario Strive PR’s managing partner Sherrilynne Starkie laid before those attending a professional development seminar at the International Business School on March 17.
All of these people have links to you and [...]
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We have been trialling Google Apps in recent weeks and I have been very impressed. Google wraps several products into an excellent package to use with your own domain name. It is an offer that resembles Microsoft Office and includes email, a calendar, chat, word/spreadsheet/presentation software, a web page editor and a structured wiki site [...]
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When starting out in business here, it does not take too long to figure out that everyone knows somebody involved in, who is knowledgeable about or who can influence some aspect of every single deal you are involved in.
If you want to be successful here, you need to be aware of the various networks that [...]
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It has now been 10 years since businesses started to ‘get’ the web.
Almost overnight, brochure sites started flying up and people have been taking the internet pretty seriously ever since. But has going online paid off for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)?
Some say no. Cranfield University’s Professor Andrew Burke has just published a study into [...]
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About eight weeks ago, I finally succumbed to temptation and joined the ‘cult of BlackBerry’.
I had been dragging my feet about getting on board, having seen people I know become blackberry addicts — constantly checking emails and immediately responding to every missive, whether they were sitting at the dinner table or had yet to even [...]
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If you have read anything about the technology industry in 2007 – including this column – you will know that there is a huge technology boom surrounding Web 2.0 and this new internet bubble is driving global growth in the technology sector. Right? Erm … well, actually not really.
According to a recent report from [...]
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According to an article in PR Week (sorry, behind firewall), we may well be heading for the death of the local newspaper. This is not a new concept. Media tycoon Sir Rupert Murdoch famously warned us back in March 2005 telling the media world ‘adopt or fail’ as he saluted the Internet as a creative, [...]
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Have you Googled yourself lately? If you are like most people, you probably have.
Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint, according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Almost half the respondents to a recent survey — 47 per cent — said they had searched for information about [...]
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As the year draws to a close, many industry pundits are taking some time to peer into their crystal balls to make predictions for the year ahead.
One technology that had a lot of hype in 2007 is destined for great things next year. Research firm Gartner predicts that virtual worlds will have a significant impact [...]
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It’s no secret that the banking industry has had more lows than highs over the past few months.
Barely a day goes by without some mention in the business news media of Northern Rock, the US sub-prime crisis or the pressure on prime rates.
All this bad news is bound to trickle down into every aspect of [...]
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The Isle of Man Space Industry Group’s end-of-year dinner was an event attended by members of the Island’s space sector as well as many visitors from as far afield as the USA, Russia and France.
I was delighted to be invited to share the evening with, among others, a bona fide NASA astronaut and the dean [...]
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Anyone who picks up a newspaper these days knows that the much-hyped social networking site Facebook is a lot of fun, addictive, a security risk and a productivity suck. Yes, it has been called all these things.
But, as its membership continues to grow, there is one important fact about Facebook that makes it increasingly important [...]
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There was a time when the term geek was seen as derogatory and was certainly not meant as a compliment. It was usually applied to people who demonstrated few social skills, regardless of their level of intelligence, or those who were enthusiastic about a particular subject — typically related to science and technology.
But, as is [...]
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I came across a rather long post from Richard Murphy’s Tax Research blog yesterday in which he takes a business reporter on the Isle of Man Examiner to task about some comments she’d made.
I know of Richard because, as he said in his post, he is often called upon for comment about Isle of Man [...]
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There is the dawn of a new era in the Isle of Man. It is the dawn of the Quad-Core processor from Intel.
Actually, these processors were originally launched late last year, but to my knowledge they were not widely available in the Isle of Man until recently when more than 40 new servers based [...]
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I try not to write about Google all the time, I really do.
There is so much news coming out of the company that I could write a Google column every week if I wanted to. But the whole world covers Google and I try to avoid writing about them so that I can offer something [...]
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While at jazz guitarist Martin Taylor’s Isle of Woman show at the Villa Marina in Douglas, I found myself sharing a table with Christopher and Lynne Gumbleton from thebestof and we got talking about social media.
Thebestof is an online business directory and community website franchise. The sites promote more than 65,000 SME businesses, providing an [...]
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Remember those first mobile phones back in the 80s? How cool we all thought we were walking around with handsets the size of bricks, only heavier. I love the tiny little mobile that I have now - it fits in the palm of my hand.
Whenever I have to run between Terminal 2 and Terminal [...]
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The British Computer Society Isle of Man (BCS) held an event this month to look into the future of egaming in the Island.
It took the form of a panel discussion with four industry experts fielding questions from an audience of around 40 BCS members and other interested people.
The panel included John Spellman, CEO of the [...]
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I have been looking into how the internet is changing the music business. Certainly distribution has been transformed now that music can easily be downloaded and the industry is struggling to cope with piracy as a result.
At the same time, the global popularity of artists such as Snow Patrol and Lily Allen has been credited [...]
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There is certainly a lot of excitement around internet-based technologies and communications as the turnout for the Chartered Management Institute event at the Hilton proved.
I have been so focused on this that I kind of lost track of what is happening in more traditional areas.
But, back in the mid-90s, I bought a load of print [...]
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A leading bank was forced to rethink dropping interest-free overdrafts for those leaving university after UK students harnessed the power of Facebook and pupils at Castle Rushen High School are currently using the same medium to push for the removal of a teacher.
Younger generations intuitively use such media and members of the Chartered Management Institute [...]
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I haven’t done a Top 5 in a while because, well frankly, I’ve not been blogging so much lately. But in September I made a bit more of an effort, and of course, Jo was helping out too. So here are the most popular Strive Notes from September 2007.
5. Strive is hiring! Folks [...]
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It looks like the times they are a-changing for our good friends from Redmond, Washington.
The European Court of First Instance upheld the European Commission’s findings that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products operable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system. The [...]
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Rapid changes in communication media mean companies have largely lost control of the dissemination of information, but there are still steps that can be taken to manage reputation in the digital age.
Click here to ead the rest of this Isle of Man Examiner story based on the presentation I gave at last week’s Junior Chamber [...]
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Thanks to everyone who came out the Junior Chamber of Commerce event on Monday. For those who didn’t make it, the Isle of Man Examiner came along and recorded some of the talk for their web site, and it supposed to be posted next week.
Next week there’s another interesting event to check out. The [...]
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If you hold shares in personal computer maker Gateway you are probably pretty happy these days. Share prices climbed 50 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange composite trading thanks to the announcement that Acer is to buy the company for $710 million.
Taiwan-based Acer’s takeover of Gateway will make it the third largest [...]
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Virtualisation had been tipped to be the next big thing in enterprise software and so it has come to pass with the stellar initial public offering by VMWare on the New York Stock Exchange.
Day one saw its share price close at US$51, more than 75 per cent above its official offering price of $29 on [...]
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Summertime and the living is easy.
This is a great time to shift down a few gears and enjoy the somewhat slower pace of business life, right? Wrong!
August is the perfect time to take a long hard look at your business and spend some time doing the things that you may have been putting off because [...]
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