Online Communities

Memo to Media Departments: Here Are Three Ways to Make My Job Easier – rebuttal

September 30, 2010 Humour
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I thoroughly enjoy reading Adrienne Gonzalez. If anyone in the accounting blog circuit has big balls, she’s got ‘em, tackling tough issues in a no nonsense manner. Anyhoo, she wrote a post with the above title and then went on to list three things she’d like media people to do. It’s begging for a rebuttal: [...]

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Can't blog? Create a digital newspaper with paper.li

August 30, 2010 Innovation
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Neville Hobson does an excellent job outlining the way paper.li works and what it can mean for communications: …the newspapers you create with Paper.li aren’t about the people in your community who tweet but rather what they link to. I was explaining it to a friend yesterday when I saw that he clearly couldn’t see the [...]

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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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Alan Lewis: the best accountants website – ever

March 4, 2010 Marketing

How often do you see an accountant’s website that doesn’t look like an accountant’s website? I’m willing to bet that almost never occurs. How often have you heard me bitching about crappy professional websites? Plenty. The one you see above represents a small Australian practice, Alan Lewis Accountants. You can see from this snapshot the [...]

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Scoble: Start-ups need to be more savvy

December 12, 2009 Marketing

It’s not often I agree with Robert Scoble but on this occasion I think he’s knocked one out of the park. While I was running around in Boston, he was at LeWeb, a conference I usually attend every other year. It’s a great showcase for startups, attracting well known speakers and a crowd that has [...]

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Black cab innovation, so why not us?

July 19, 2009 Innovation

I like to think that most professionals differentiate by the service they offer rather than technical skills. To me, technical ability should be a given albeit there can be problems. Even so, there will always be that situation where you just know you’d like to help but you’re out of your depth. Enter tweetalondoncab where [...]

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Getting help, growing networks: Twitter

December 16, 2008 Featured

I know many of my professional readers look at Twitter and go ‘Uh?’ That’s OK. I did once as well, casting it as a complete waste of time. In recent times the service has proven itself incredibly valuable. As always with technology, it’s not the tech itself but how it is used that delivers value. [...]

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