Hovering Over The Back Button

I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don't normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest - cheesy - but, if you bear with me, I think I can do it. So, web content management, persuasive content, customer engagement and the holidays.... hmmm... [ read more ]

Recently I was fortunate enough to meet with David Pullinger from the UK governments Central Office of Information (COI), who are driving our government’s citizen engagement strategy  and mandating the policy around which government must adhere to. It was an incredibly absorbing meeting as we took a fast ride around all elements of where a citizen touches the government, (each of which I would love to have explored for longer than we had) and an interesting mix of mandatory policy, education and technical enablement that his department are driving. [ read more ]

When reading and talking about Social Media I see a lot of conversations about Personal Brand. Discussion about strategies, building and maintaining your 'PB', of who you should try to be, who defines your PB (is it you, your audience, your company?), when, in real life, whisper it quietly, the aspiration for most people I talk to is, "Not wanting to looking like a total c**k". [ read more ]

Kas Thomas has been at it again, this time throwing down a personal meme gauntlet, by sharing 10 things about himself and tagging his blogroll to do the same, but I carelessly tweeted about it and soon him and Irina Guseva tagged me and having been double dared - now I am in. So... here are 10 things about me... [ read more ]

Inspired by a tweet by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) about people creating two Facebook accounts for business and personal, plus the resulting feedback from my colleague Joe Stanhope (@joestanhope) got me thinking about my previous post on who is the online me? [ read more ]

I have been talking to an interesting UK company - Push Technology - and their Diffusion product - who are riding on a re-emerging wave of demand for push web technologies. [ read more ]