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Today is OneWebDay

Today is OneWebDay – “a global day to celebrate online life”. When I heard I did take a few minutes to reflect how the internet has changed the life I lead.

Bad writing – an eighth type

Matthew Stibbe at the Bad Language blog has a great post about seven types of bad writing that many of will see every day.

Discover web 2.0 sites in the UK

Stumbled across an interesting post this morning about web 2.0 websites in the UK on the Read/Write Web site. I certainly learnt about some new sites I wasn’t aware of, and saw some that I did know about.

It's been emotional

Designing customer processes to trigger desired emotional reactions is a key way of differentiating your product or service from its competitors. This is particularly true online where the differentiator of personal service doesn’t come into play.

My journey into podcasting

At a key organisation I work with I’ve managed to persuade the powers that be to commit to a six month trial of podcasting and video podcasting. This is a real step forward in communications for this type of organisation.

The New Influencers book

Paul Gillin is writing a book called The New Influencers – a history and commentary on social media, what’s behind its rapid growth, and profiles on some key players in this space.

Recent links from del.icio.us

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Being a new generation marketer

Troy White has a good post about the wide range of tools that are now available to marketers.

Marketers more aware of social media?

It’s been interesting to watch how marketing and PR professionals have adopted social media as a tool for communicating. PR professionals seem to have adopted social media much quicker than their marketing counterparts, but that could now be changing.