rebecca on March 31st, 2008

A former client, Onzo , has successfully raised venture money and orders worth £9m. more here

sadly nothing on their own website….

Onzo is a data systems development
business, with specific intellectual property relating to the
development of display devices thatsupport smart metering systems.
Scottish
and Southern has also placed initial orders worth over GBP 7 million
with Onzo for [...]

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rebecca on March 31st, 2008

Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning does an annual residential course called "Igniting Enterprise"   It's a all-you-need to get started course where the attendees are expected to come with an idea for a new business that they can use as the model for all the lectures.  I think the focus is on [...]

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rebecca on March 31st, 2008

If you are interested or curious about what the Current Big Thing called Social Media is, who does it and what they are working on / talking about.  There are a wide range of great groups mainly based inLondon (sorry outatowners) that happen most weeks / months.

If you ahve a reason to come to town.  [...]

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rebecca on March 31st, 2008

What will it be like when consumers control their own data and become the driver of relationships with vendors?

Went to another VRM Lonodn meeting last week organised by Adriana Lukas.

Richard Marr has written a good synopsis of his undestanding with some very handy 'use cases" illustrating what VRM might be used for in the [...]

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rebecca on March 28th, 2008

I met Tim at SXSW earlier this month.  He has written a seminal book called the Four Hour Work Week and it's being launched in London next week.

Tim has set up a pub sessio for any Uk blogger / social media types who fancy hooking up with him.  Wednesday 2nd April in the Chandos [...]

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rebecca on March 26th, 2008

I've been online with Twitter for a few months now and here are 5 top tips on how to use it

Find top bloggers in your space and follow them.  Read the links they post – you often get the scoop early and can be commenter #1
Browse your favourite bloggers and see who follows them and [...]

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rebecca on March 26th, 2008

Fast Company article about Tim Ferriss and his tactics for getting "known" online.

Go where the bloggers are.
Read the blogs of the people you want to cover you.
Send bloggers interesting stories — especially about other people.
Start blogging.
Don't send press releases.

Simple.  Tim will be in London next week – details here

Glad to see my mate [...]

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rebecca on March 25th, 2008

Jonny just published the video he did of me on YouTube.

He's going to do a mash-up map showing where his interviewees came from to SXSW in Austin. 

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rebecca on March 25th, 2008

Reading the Busienss section yesterday evening… these are the people listed as the Media Industry's rising stars: top 40 under 40.

These ones interest me:

Ajaz Ahmed, Founder an dchairman of AKQA
Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo
Neil Chugani, FD BBC Worldwide [my interest is more in his former international rowing career!]
Nick Gregg, Founder of Strategy Eye
Nick Green, CEO, [...]

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rebecca on March 24th, 2008

Customer data has been an important part of the advice I give most of my clients for a long time – since I worked for Peppers and Rogers I have tended to suggest that it be called Customer Relationship Management or CRM.  

But that time is now moving into the past.  The future is about 'flipping' [...]

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