Signed up to join a webinar and was directed to a very impressive Adobe Connect service for the presentation. In advance of the event, it suggested I test my browser and connection speed to ensure that I had the latest version of flash player. A great back-stop service for the presentation to ensure that everything [...]








Paul Foley runs Noodle Coaching.  He gave this talk to the London Communicators and Engagement Group last month.  We were so impressed we asked him to write some expert articles for us.  The first one publishes on Monday. Enjoy.








Karly Hand – Karly Hand @identitycrisis Erin Portman – Erin Portman PR @erinportman Brian Solis – PR 2.0@briansolis Peter Shankman – HARO @skydiver In a world riddled with ADD are PR agencies still relevant? Solis – Twitter is changing everything – an opportunity as communicators / brand managers.  Real-time flow.  Is it distracting? Where do [...]








a nice little interview summary from #Amp08 Three questions 1: What’s good about the event today? 2: What’s bad or the downside about this event? 3: What would you like to see happening in the future?  Nicely put together by Penny Jackson Thanks to Carl Jeffrey for letting me know they were up!








I will be speaking at Amplified 08 a "Network of Networks" event to bring together the creative thinking around several business networking events. This is a ground-breaking event for business in the UK.  I have had the pleasure of being at a couple of 'seminal moments' when great things started (Social Media Cafe planning event [...]








Many thanks to Mireira Fontbernat from Qik who has uploaded video of the three speakers this morning (and a little bit of me doing introductions). Bloggers reactions: FreshNetworks' Helen Trim  Charlie Robertson of Red Spider  Quentin Boyes of Honeycomb Software   Sadly the one of Andrew Howells of Zype didn't come out…. darn phone reception. 








Thanks to Nico Macdonald for inviting me to chair two sessions at his Media Futures Conference next week. I am going to be up there with Alex McKie and the guys from Plot…. Wicked!  11.00:    Research in the real world – Alex McKie 11:30:      Meet the people formerly known as… users – Gill [...]








Steve Moore has launched a new breakfast event, called One Morning, the launch was yesterday at the glamorous One Alfred Place business club. Steve asked me to help out by chairing the three fabulous presentations – each one answering the question "What Happens Next?" for TV, book publishing and newspaper publishing.  I love doing this [...]








I was invited by the lovely folk at Designer Breakfasts to do a workshop on how to do business development for your agency or for yourself. The group was fantastic and worked really hard on the problems and tools I set them tow ork on.  Here are the photos. The handout is here. Designer Breakfasts [...]








I have been invited by Designer Breakfasts to lead a "brunch workshop" on 17th April They are running a series of events to help design businesses improve their skills in getting new clients. the first event was Sir George Cox talking about the future for design businesses; then Frances Hinton on  how to ask the [...]