I’ve been really busy, lately. Reach Further have moved offices. We can now be found at Reach Further Ltd.Round Foundry Media CentreFoundry StreetLeedsLS11 5QP I’ve also revamped the website and finally set up a decent WordPress blog. I’m liking WordPress, and it’s maybe time I moved this blog over to
Here’s an interesting blog posting about the kinds of job titles that owners of business start-ups give themselves. OK, I have always wanted to call myself “Creative Director”. But I have resisted the temptation. What does it really mean? At the moment I call myself an elearning and online communities
The Trendspotting blog reported on a recent survey of social media usage. Universal McCann recently published its comparative study following Social Media trends in three waves: September 2006 (Wave 1), June 2007 (Wave 2) March 2008 (Wave 3).Trendspotting’s post highlights major results in the study including: Social media is a
I will be attending the NLab Social Networks Conference in June. The conference aims to explore the benefits of social networks for business http://www.nlabnetworks.com/ Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your
Once upon a time, in the early days of the Web, we used to create web pages that could be updated directly by users, and use them for wonderful collaborative projects and to comment on one another’s websites. But that was ten years ago, before the terrible blight on the
We all have our strengths, and we all have areas of web development which we aren’t as interested in. I know good web design when I see it, but I am much more interested in web strategy, content design, Web 2.0, community building etc. so I tend to like to
Everything on the Web is archived (check www.archive.org). It may be impossible to take something down once it is online so be careful what you post and what you allow others to post. So consider what would happen if your next employer Googled you. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t put anything on the Web, just review everything first. Your holiday pictures of the South of France on Flickr are probably fine – but not the stag party in Magaluf. Your blog reflecting on news and issues of relevance to professionals like yourself may build you a professional reputation, but your no-holds-barred blog about the terrible kids and teachers at your inner-city school should probably be anonymous.
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
There are so many Facebook apps that I now turn down or ignore most of the Quizzes or role-playing invitations I get on Facebook. However here’s FlogBlog – an application that’s actually useful – it provides a feed to your existing blog via Facebook. A good way to integrate Blogger
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