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Progressive Practices: Riley and its use of online services

August 9, 2010 Innovation

Following on my riff to Richard Messik’s piece about Riley Chartered Accountants, I had a Skype video conversation with Jon Stacey, senior partner at the 20 person firm. It turns out Jon is one of only two men working at the firm. That is a complete 180 degree turn from when he joined the practice [...]

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Progressive practices: the social angle

August 5, 2010 Marketing

I am seeing more and more firms encouraging their people to join social networks. In a conversation between Richard Messik and Jon Stacey of Riley Chartered Accountants, Jon talked about moving some aspects of their businesss away from Lotus Notes and on to Yammer, a sort of private Twitter. He says: …our old Teamtalk database from [...]

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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn?

August 2, 2010 General

I learn more about the real world from my children and grand children than anyone else. Last week while in the UK I saw first hand how quickly young people adapt to the new breed of technology. It took our no.2 grand daughter less than 30 seconds to figure out the iPad and about the [...]

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Progressive Practices: Marshall & Co

July 28, 2010 Innovation

AccountingWeb has an intriguing contest going on to discover the most progressive firm in the UK. It’s intriguing at multiple levels. The firms get to pitch yet with one exception have provided no links to their site The pitches vary widely but are mostly generic as Mark Lee would put it They are all tiny [...]

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Tungle: mother's little helper

April 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Calendar coordination remains one of those pain in the butt things that everyone loves to hate. Unless you’ve got a MS Exchange server – which can be a very expensive investment – it is very difficult to synchronize calendars. In most client situations you won’t know what, if anything, the client is using. That compounds [...]

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Two sides of 'influence'

October 24, 2008 General

Ever since I started AccMan I’ve held the view that this media is a way to build reputation and influence. It’s an essential part of marketing your skills and wares. It doesn’t have to be ‘in your face’ messaging but about the ability to tell a story that resonates with people. It’s been something I’ve [...]

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IT Counts opens up…well sort of

September 25, 2008 General

I received an email from one of the people behind IT Counts telling me the site is now open to view by anyone. That’s good news and something that a few of us have been lobbying for behind the scenes. It also means that IT Counts can now be indexed by Google. Love them or [...]

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