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3-Stage Goals

How many times have you set a goal…and just missed it?
For a lot of us, “just missing it” is tantamount to failure. For recovering perfectionists like myself, it’s all too easy to see success in terms of black and white, and the goals that get us there as pass/fail tests.
How do we change that?
Expand your …

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Ultimate Big Brother

Josie won Big Brother 11 on Tuesday and then walked from the follow-on Ultimate series saying she could not cope with being in a house of celebrities and the claustrophobia of it all.  So, the remaining ten are now battling to become the Ultimate champion.

Figure 1: Topic cloud for the Ultimate Big Brother conversation – …

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Marks & Spencers in Salad Salt Shocker

High street retailer Marks & Spencer must be hoping that all their excess salt will help preserve their image as recent reports have found that the retail behemoth sell 7 out of the 10 most salty salads in town. Health conscious people of Britain who rely on high street supermarkets such as M&S for a …

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SOCIAL MEDIA SIGNPOSTS:Location

What are the trends and memes in social media at the moment?  What’s hot off the server?  One of the biggest discussions is around Facebook Places, and the future of location services, widely tipped to join the top table of social media.

Figure 1: Topic cloud for the launch of Facebook Places – 19/8 to 25/8
Here …

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Social media engagement

There’s been a bit of a hoo-hah around the comments of Leo Laporte on social media.  The influential tech podcaster has said he’s given up on the platform, especially Google Buzz.  Laporte was angry because a glitch with Buzz meant his posts after 6 August weren’t seen by anyone – so he’s not doing social …

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The little things matter.

We’re always making improvements to StepRep. Sometimes they’re obvious, like when we alter colours or the page design. Other times they’re invisible to users – little tweaks to the code that make the pages load more efficiently, with the changes measured in milliseconds.
Today I’d like to talk about a change in the actual functionality of …

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BB:The final send off

Josie didn’t have to pack her suitcase for Friday night’s eviction because she had a free pass to tonight’s Big Brother final. It looks like she won’t have to pack up this evening either and will stay put for the Ultimate show as series 11 winner.
John James, Steve, Sam and Corin were all evicted in …

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Taking the Time to Think

It has been almost 2 months since I last wrote here. There are a lot of reasons for that, many to do with overwhelm and a strange sense of dissatisfaction with what I was producing. I talked a little bit about why I hadn’t been keeping my book blog up to date here and some of the …

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Social media accounts for quarter of UK web traffic

Ofcom has crunched the numbers on UK media consumption.  The findings of its annual Communications Market Report showed that on average, Britons spend just over seven hours of their waking day using media and communications.  More if they were multi-tasking – the figure was nine and a half hours for 16-25 year-olds.
Social media accounted for …

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Going Places

Do believe the hype.  Facebook has unveiled Places, its location-based apps service.  Mashable (19/8) has described it as ‘fascinating’.  Initial users will need an iPhone or log onto the networking behemoth’s smartphone site.  Android and Blackberry users haven’t been overlooked and will soon be able to use the service.
Places uses GPS on smartphones and users …

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