Category Archives: On Technology

What If Twitter Went Down & Never Came Back Up?

You must know by now what a fan of Twitter I am, don't you?  If you'd like to connect with me there, just follow me and @ me to say "hi" (btw, if you have no idea what I just wrote, you might want to check out this post first). One thing I'm ...

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Internet Marketing: If You’re New To It Don’t Do What We All Did

Browse around the internet these days and (fortunately) you'll find fewer of those horrible long-copy sales letters with never-ending testimonials, yellow boxes with dotted red lines around them and umpteen bonus offers when you buy. There's no doubt they still work - and that's why people still use them but thankfully the internet and online marketing ...

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New To Twitter? Here Are Some Tips…

Not sure I'd agree that Twitter is full-on "mainstream" yet but it has certainly hit the headlines in recent weeks what with the news of the Hudson plane crash breaking on Twitter and the recent "event" that was Stephen Fry getting stuck in a lift and tweeting whilst there to his 95,000-odd followers. Today is an ...

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What Is Lifestreaming? And Why Should You Do It?

If you're "into" the world of social media and online social networking then lifestreaming is, I'm sure, not a new concept for you. You'll have heard of blogs of course and you're also probably on Twitter, Facebook and maybe you even use FriendFeed. You're already streaming aspects of your life to the world at large ...

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Why Getting To Know Your Computer Is Well Worth The Effort

I am constantly amazed and astounded at how some people in the business world get by with I.T. skills so minimal they can barely switch their computer on without tech support (slight exaggeration I know but not far off). I was watching someone the other day try and find a file on their computer - my ...

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Do You Really Need The Internet *That* Much?

We're back in South Africa which means a limit of 2GB per month on the internet access front (even worse than the 3GB we had last time although we can always pay for more if we run out). So once again online productivity is at the forefront of our minds and please do forgive my (what ...

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Does Online & Social Media Marketing Really Work?

This may seem like a strange question coming from someone who owns a business that is marketed 100% online but given a few recent jolts of reality in the off line world, I'm wondering just how effective marketing a business online is. Let's get some perspective here...go out into the off line world, have a coffee ...

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Are You Guilty Of Twitterbating? (And Therefore Missing The Real Benefit Of Twitter)

Over the past few months I've been experimenting with Twitter (interrupted by our stay in South Africa when bandwidth was limited - sorry but you're all going to have to hear me go on about it for ages now, especially as we'll be back there for 6 months soon!!). Twitter recently seems to have

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Blog Housekeeping Apologies

Sorry to any of you who have tried to access the blog in the past couple of days...there was a slight glitch transferring the blog from Typepad to Wordpress which frustratingly took a tad longer than I thought - and I had issues trying to sort out the domain transfer. However, I hope you like the ...

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