Have you ever been misunderstood online? We’ve all experienced occasions when an email didn’t quite convey the message it was supposed to. Such problems can take a surprising amount of time to clear up – to establish what was really being said. An amusing email mistake was reported on the
Online conferences are BIG these days. Some organisations have been running virtual conferences for a while and others are just starting out, or experimenting with an online element to a face-to-face conference. Technology has moved on a lot and there are a variety of options for online conferences and webinars,
Planning is well in hand for tomorrow’s Women on the Web in Leeds (17th September). This all-day conference at exciting venue NTI will bring together over 40 businesswomen. A Forward Ladies event, it is sponsored by NTI and Reach Further, who are organising it. With Meg Pickard as our keynote
You’ll find Reach Further partners in many social networking spaces – we “practice what we preach” and are members of many social networks and online communities. Time is finite, so we’ve found it makes sense to carefully choose the networks and communities that you belong to. Choose those that have
On the BBC’s dot.life blog, Rory Cellan-Jones recently discussed whether or not Brits can make any money from blogging. While there are various quotes from Ashley Norris, previously of Shiny Media who is convinced the UK situation is too small and parochial for bloggers to make money, Cellan-Jones is slightly
In September 2002 a small news item flashed around the Internet. It was forwarded from person to person in private email, posted on message boards, and written up in news services for “techies” all over the world. Its headline was something like “First Smiley Rediscovered”. Mike Jones, a researcher at
Recently I’ve been finding that a lot of emails promoting events and conferences, and even company newsletters, are arriving in my inbox just in image form – or PDF – with an email saying no more than “see attachment”. I find these very frustrating and here’s why. Am I the
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
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox points out the flaws in four website designs, including some surprisingly major companies (the New York Times, for example). The mistakes include bad content, bad links, bad navigation, and bad category pages. He then points out that bad content takes the prize for costing
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