General

This is one of the most misleadingly named services I’ve seen in quite a while: Readspeaker Podcaster.

Found a great new online collaboration service today called Thinkature.

Just arrived back from Delivering the New PR in London today – an excellent conference on using social media tools in public relations.

Proof of the force of social media in driving business on the web comes from Hitwise. The research shows the continuing rapid growth of social media sites, and shows the effect of this in creating additional traffic on e-commerce sites.

Stephen Davies has kicked off a discussion about what it takes to become a great PR consultant. He’s published five tips for starters, and Heather Yaxley has added her thoughts too.

After a good week or so completely offline I’m now back to find more than 800 emails in my inbox, and that’s after the junk filter has done its best. I also have more than 1,500 unread entries in my RSS reader.

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for a holiday.

I’ve been in Paris today at the route launch for the 2007 Tour de France at Le Palais des Congres – definitely the largest news conference I’ve ever attended.

Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.

Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.