BLOG I am loving the sharing.… Ok so I accidentally got involved in a tech start up and found my self sharing rather than selling. I have always been crap at selling, mainly because somewhere in there you only really want to meet people who are going to buy your product or service. Me? I love people, I love bringing people together at events and I love racing through streets in Soho talking very fast on my phone trying to pull everything off with no time, no budget and necking a double espresso from Flat White. I am stress
BLOG London Bloggers Meet Up - Blog or Tweet? I am terrified to write this post in case @lesanto reads it and calls me up. It is not really that he is scary - I bet he is a teddy bear with a cup of hot chocolate really. It is that I know I could do better. When you get a room full of London Bloggers together there is a cross section of people who are smart people. They may work in education, business or have a real job like like being a parent. There is a vibe I find infectious and love hearing about people's blogs, everyone says "oh I just
BLOG TEDx and Music So there we were half way through TEDx and it was all going well, then Marisa pops on stage and starts talking about music. I have recently been on a mission after discovering musomap via twitter, We needed something to pull together a section of Global Sharing Day and this was it. Funny what shows up when you need it. So Tessa Marchington sails on about how can connect with music and share music, then she mentions the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra which is conducted by Daniel Barenboim an Ar
BLOG Learning to share.... So there I was tweeting away and suddenly I'd fallen into building the sharing economy. Not single handedly of course - lots of faster, taller and smarter people with letters after their name started long before me. I was not looking for it, nor was I particularly mad about it. I joined Zip Car because I think owning a car that you drive once a week is nuts, I used Spotify and Love Film early on because the thought of buying CD's and DVD's and then buying furniture to keep them on was a pain in
BLOG Asana and Nimble I am loving being an early-ish adopter. I certainly was not first but I am hanging in there even though not everything is perfect yet. I could jump onto a suite of salesforce.com products that do all of this but I am loving Asana for projects and Nimble for CRM - really social CRM. The only thing that is lacking in both is a state of the art mobile app, they are coming, then they are coming and when they get here.... I spend a lot of time on the go at events and travelling, I work on tube
BLOG The Email Game - Be Smart, be connected but be in control I was sitting in a bar with my Bombay Sapphire and tonic when my good friend exclaimed (too proudly for my liking) "I get 100 work emails a day and another 60 to my personal emmail account." I was nothing short of devastated FOR THE LOVE OF A HIGHER BEING!!! What are you doing? When I probed they revealed "I get lots of email that comes is LinkedIn, Eventbrite, Meet Up, newsletters, offers. Unfortunately my dear engaging people the email game is not unusual, tempted as it is to start ranting a
BLOG Dell B2B Huddle @ Microsoft Mark and Simon listen intently at the B2B Huddle. My Social Media Week London got off to a brilliant start at this event hosted by Kerry Bridge and Neville Hobson. Ever since Microsoft brought Yammer I have started to glance a little more often in their direction. Then came Outlook.com, (something they could have done YEARS ago - easy for me to say from my armchair of course.) The day opened with a keynote from David Coplin, Microsoft's 'Search Evangelist' for here in the UK. I was about to
Audio Why SEO is Still F*Ck!n Cool No-one loves social media marketing more that I do, I wrote a bloody book on it. BUT what I’d like to remind website business owners out there is that SEO or ‘search engine optimisation’ IS the free traffic auto-pilot that we all have wet dreams about. Marketing online today is a bit like a balanced meal, you need both meat and veg (no offence to vegetarians of course) to grow big and strong. So here are my 10 reasons why, if you’re not already, you should take SEO seriously: 1. The traffic
BLOG London 2012 Olympic Games Digital Report by Alex Balfour Normally I'd run a mile from 84 slides in a row with this much data on! However, these form really good insight into the outcomes for the games and it is great to see someone like Alex run a high profile job like this and come out triumphant. This games broke new ground in media and the "game" changed several times in the run up, for example there was no ipad when London won the bid. Read on! About Alex:Alex Balfour joined the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympi
BLOG Our favorite quotes of the night #TAGtribe Forum "Social has changed what we do" says Jon Silk" tweeted via our hosts @WE_UK "I don't do email. I don't like it" says JP via girisham1 "Transparency is no longer a nice to have" JP "Posteriors are there for posterity" JP "If you use social media to sell stuff it's like being a door to door salesman" 'Connecting with customers is a two way relationship, not just a route to them' via Publicate_ "The future will see some jobs depending on your Klout score!" via prad Patel What was your favor
BLOG #wewillgather at Nesta There I was again in a room with Lloyd Davis and a good idea being brought into action. The notion of #wewillgather started last year in the London Riots when Sophie posted a tweet about cleaning up. She went to bed and woke up to find people coming together to clean up. Silly things called #hashtags brought real people together to do real things. Right now in 2012 London and the UK is riding high on an Olympic games that swiped the Union Jack back from nasty Nick Griffin and a Paralympics that
BLOG Finding the time to think - harder than you think? My mate Nick called me from a cab as he was speeding towards the airport this morning. He really does give Sir David Frost a run for his money the amount of time zones he covers armed with a camera each month. It has been great to see Barney and Nick grow Causal Films from the back of a mini in the desert to a huge team with offices in London and New York. Nick has just taken a week off to cycle from Land's End to John o' Groats and we were chatting how getting away from it all really energ
