Interested in Registering to Test Google Wave?

I may well have left my run a bit late, but I’ve just now registered interest in being one of the 100,000 people who from September 30 will be helping test the new online communication and collaboration tool, Google Wave. Some time ago I took time out to watch a presentation done for developers. I’ve [...]

Notifying Facebook Friends About My New Page

I’ve been having an interesting time – for “interesting” read “time-consuming and frustrating but I hope it’s worth it” – working out how to communicate a particular message to friends on Facebook. For experienced Facebook users what I’ve learned the hard way will probably seem terribly obvious, but someone might find some value in my [...]

Social Media Ignorance Not an Option for Business

A blog post a few days ago by the very savvy “Community Guy” Jake McKee, Why is a lack of knowledge cool? struck a chord with me.  Jake was commenting on the fact that in an otherwise quite interesting set of comments about social media and specifically Twitter, US Secretary of State Clinton made a [...]

How Can Rural Communities Be Expected to Compete, on Dialup?

This post is about a cause and a campaign, which is aimed at engaging the attention of high level influencers, decision-makers, legislators and generally the movers of the levers, to the urgent need for rural communities in America to have access to high speed Internet, and moving those influencers, decision-makers etc to practical action. I [...]

Getting Value for Your Marketing Dollar

One of the themes I’m picking up in business publications is that the recession that is here for some and coming for others is a time when some businesses will build capabilities and strengths that will enable them to flourish when we are through the trough. For example with expenditure on marketing. How many of [...]