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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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Hayes Knight: at last someone gets 21st century knowledge sharing

August 30, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Ross Mayfield, co-founder SocialText pointed me to a case study of Hayes Knight, an ST customer that in my view ‘gets’ the connections between socializing tools and CRM as applied to professional services firms. Progress at last. I’ve only been saying that firms need to grasp this way of working for the last five years. [...]

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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: Mazuma puts the fun into accounting

August 18, 2010 Progressive practices
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Formed in 2005 by a couple of childhood friends who trained in accounting, Mazuma (a Yiddish word for ‘money’) is one of a new breed of ‘accounting factories’ that is taking the commoditization of compliance services to an entirely new level. Earlier today I spoke with co-founder Lucy Cohen, the marketing brains behind Mazuma who [...]

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How to lists: uncritical thinking at its worst

August 12, 2010 Marketing
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If you spend any amount of time on the Internet you might have noticed the rising number of ‘how to…’ lists there are out there. I mostly hate them. I was talking about this with a pall earlier today. It was in the context of there being so much vendor driven ‘stuff’ that gets repeated [...]

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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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If you're not getting cloud computing you're a loser

August 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The golden rule of blogging – never insult your readers. And yes. I am naughty on occasion. But there is a very real point to this somewhat discourteous sounding headline. You’ll need to read through to the end to get it. I’ve spent the last hour or so watching a couple of videos from OSCON. [...]

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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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