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01.12.07Creating a charter for effective Social Media activity within a large organisationFor the past year or so, I've been the consumer experience lead for Social Media initiatives and projects within my company, and one of the things I've been trying to do is to influence and change not just what we do, but the way that we do it - because, as Fun Boy Three (and Bananarama) once said, that's what gets results. I strongly believe that the way we behave, think, act has an enormous impact on what we do, and changing that can be the first step towards revolutionising what a company does. Even just resolving to think in a ...
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01.10.07And speaking of namesI'm on several mailing lists at my company which give details of server maintenance outages and the like. And most of the time, they fly through the inbox and I can happily ignore them. However, yesterday there were a flurry of mails with priceless subject lines: I loved the idea that they needed to take all the little green Irish fellas out of service to give them new green trousers, or because the pot of gold was broken or something. However, I'm sure that our colleagues in the US just thought about it as a server name - because that's what happens, isn't ...
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01.10.07A spammer by any other name. . . is still a git. However, I've been tickled recently by some of the randomly generated names which have been apparently sending me unbeatable offers via email recently: Irinushka Cooper Microorganism P. Alarmin Cosmo McDrew Ernesto Memeolite Rubdown V. Theorist Palliates Altiplano Ceremonials O. Foreknowledge Pedro O'Shaugnessy Deana Fontenonte Antigone Triathlon Vinnie Debussy Crystal Slightly Gwendolyn K. Dwarf
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01.07.07Five things most people don’t know about meRight then. Having been tagged with this meme by my adorable sister, I am apparently obliged to share an arbitrary number of factoids that most peope don't know about me. We have a problem, then. I've been online and social for such a long time that I think I must have already shared much of what there is to know. Plus there are obviously some things that most people don't know that I don't actually want to be known by the general populus. But I'll try and think of something other things. I've got a marine radio operator license (which came in ...
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01.05.07Now we are SevenThree things, in brief:This blog is now a stonking seven years old. Although the archives on this site only(!) date back to April 2000, there were three months of postings prior to that powered by notepad and html, which are now forever lost to time, though I'm fairly sure that posterity will cope fine without them. Blimey. Seven years, eh? Long time. Lot of wibble, there. At this time of year, some people's thoughts turn to the Bloggies awards, as a way to recognise blogs, bloggers and blogging technologies for doing what they do anyway. Which is fine. I mean, if you ...
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12.30.06Born, eat, shag, dieJust a reminder that The Mayfly project is back again for the end of 2006. Can you sum up the last year of your life in just 24 words?
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12.27.06iTunes playlist rulesNo, I'm not being effusive, for a change: I'm noodling about the rules which generate smart playlists in iTunes. So, when you create a smart playlist, you get to choose a set of criteria which the library matches against - for example, "Artist contains X" or "Rated Y stars" or "Genre is Z" "BPM is N". SO far, so straightforward. I've found a bunch of sites which allow people to share their playlists, which is nice and everything, but I've got in mind something else - what if you could allow people to share their rules, but not the titles which it ...
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12.05.06CartophiliaA few days ago, people started posting links to this flash map game, and it seems to have spread like wildfire. It's good, but it's not the best one out there, because you don't know how wrong you are when you can't find Gabon and so on. It just moves along to the next question. For those who want to challenge themselves (and learn) through map games, try the following: GeoSense was doing the rounds a month ago or so. You can choose world map/europe/US and countries/cities/states which makes it a bit more challenging - plus you can play against another (anonymous) player. ...
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12.04.06Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaLike Santa sliding down your chimney, so quietly you'll barely notice him until he empties his sack in your stockings, festive topical blogging at 'Tis the Season is back once again, this year covering fascinating festive facts. And if you want more to read, I can do little better than point you to the copious archives for the last few years which demonstrate both a) a hearty fondness for the festive season and all the silliness and tradition it entails and b) a tendancy for the authors to get tired/run out of steam/disappear to frozen wastelands of Scotland etc a couple of ...
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11.16.06Embracing the blurI just entered my first submission to a forthcoming issue of JPG magazine. The theme is Embrace the Blur, and I thought this photo - taken at the All England Amateur Latin Championships in Essex earlier this year - fit the bill rather well. If you agree, please vote for it. I'd love to win a lensbaby. The rest of the photos from that (rather Strictly Ballroom-esque) event can be found here.
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