Shell Live Wire A resource and community for young entrepreneurs (young being 16-30). Lots of online tools including testing your business idea, Finance Action Planner and more. WidgetBox A great resource for a variety of widgets you can use on your website, in your blog etc. You can even convert
I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not
A tag cloud is a visual way of representing the most frequent (important) keywords in a web page. Here’s a tag cloud for the latest posts on the Reach Further Blog. admin awards bbc being believe blog blue business comment community computer course date encouraging entrepreneurship events facebook feel filed
You may like to know about www.venturenavigator.co.uk. It’s a free software based business evaluation engine. It’s the first thing I’ve found (apart from going through a Dragon’s Den process!) that helps you see if an idea could be turned into a sustainable business. It can also be used by an
The BBC’s dot life blog reports on the 45 most influential people in technology. Tim Berners Lee is at the top of the list, which probably reflects the British bias of the judges and the context of the vote (on the Web!). I find it very sad that there are
Sunday, January 20, 2008 A retail website that grabs your attention! What an imaginative retail website this is … check it out … even in Dutch in makes people think! I’ve seen threads discussing this site on forums entirely unconnected with their market – and those in the know (presumably
There have been new warnings about a stealthy Windows virus that hides itself deep within Windows on your computer. Once installed it gives malicious users control of your computer and they can, for example, instal key loggers to capture your usernames and passwords, crdit card details etc., including login details
Helping your potential customers to connect with other people can pay dividends in many ways. You can help them to make the decision to buy your products by providing an environment conducive to persuasion. Research shows that people are most likely to make a decision if they are allowed to
Monday, January 7, 2008 Facebook for Enterprise worklight has announced a secure enterprise overlay for facebook, allowing workers to use all the social networking tools of facebook, whilst keeping sensitive company information behind a firewall. The blurb states that employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no
According to an article about trendspotting on the BBC website today, The Shape of Things to Come, all things “green” will be outmoded in 2008. But that’s not to say that environmental issues will not be important, far from it…. “Blue will be the new green, says the director of