January 31st, 2012
The issue of privacy in social media is becoming a very ‘hot’ topic. Recently, emails have been whizzing around about LinkedIn changing their terms and conditions so that – unless you opt out – people could be used in their adverts without their knowledge.
Then yesterday this message came from Google:
“We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy [...]
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May 22nd, 2011
At the recent Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, UK Chancellor George Osborne announced that schoolchildren will be taught to design apps for smartphones through a deal with Blackberry.
While this is a laudable objective, however creative the people – and the UK’s techies are highly creative – being clever is not enough.
What young entrepreneurs need is cash to start and grow businesses – something the UK banks are strangely reluctant to provide, in spite of threats by the Government if the High Street banks do not increase their lending.
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September 30th, 2010
Social media was created in an atmosphere of openness and welcome feedback. If the message is going to be manipulated by the platform owners then the whole premise on which social media has been established – and flourished – may be in jeopardy.
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March 18th, 2010
Social Media appears to be now stabilising as a Marketing channel with the six key players e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter consolidating their position in the marketplace.
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April 1st, 2009
On Monday I had the pleasure of co-presenting a short seminar on using social media tools to a forum of high-powered executive job-seekers
While some of the audience wholeheartedly grasped the opportunities presented by blogging, Twitter and Facebook, it is fair to say that a number were less convinced.
When we explained that many major companies (and [...]
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