We’ve just donated a new website to the Execution Charitable Trust (ECT), launched today. Execution is a client of ours - they are an independent boutique brokerage house and their Charitable Trust is the brainchild of the firm’s founders, James Blackburn and Nick Finegold (in particular). They hold an annual charity day when the firm donates […]

We have just developed and donated Thusanani UK’s new website and blog. Thusanani is an African word that means “helping each other”. It’s a grass roots charity in South Africa which we have supported from the UK. It’s in the process of being registered with the Charity Commission in the UK so that they can drive a hard fundraising […]

The Department for Transport has published their guidelines for air travel post the terror alerts in London. There’s much debate about how long these restrictions will be in place. I don’t think we will ever be able to take our notebook computers onto the plane with us again. [update: ok, i am wrong, just received […]

We’ve just finished developing the beta release of Cogenz. Based on the social media success of del.icio.us, Cogenz, which stands for Collective Intelligence, offers a shared bookmarking facility: a knowledge management tool that sits behind the firewall of an enterprise. The first review by Anu Gupta appears positive. We’ve developed it in .Net on Microsoft […]

blog.iconcertina.com continues the discussion previously help at my Smartapps blog. This evening I tried to login to the Typepad Smartapps blog but just as Neville Hobson discovered, its down again. Ironically, I was logging on to post my LAST post in typepad - telling everyone that we have migrated our blog to a new url […]

Charles Dunstone, Chief Executive of the Carphone Warehouse who offers no-cost broadband to UK consumers, blogs here. You have got to love this guy. What a breath of fresh air, a corporate being open & transparent about their challenges. I was forwarded the link by a Telco Analyst who said:
Refreshingly honest. Even if you are […]

There has been some debate about whether the traction Jeff Jarvis received with his Dell Blog Campaign is down to Jeff being an A List blogger.

As Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz commented on their podcast #50 - I am not an A-List blogger, so how have I gained a daily readership […]

I am famous! Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz are leading the way in analysing the impact that new media (blogging. podcasting etc etc) has on the way big brands communicate. Shel and Neville broadcast their 50th Podcast yesterday! Its called For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report. They interviewed me […]

You will remember that I justified the birth of this blog by explaining that the advent of the personal web platform was undoubtedly a disruptive technology and for me to understand it I needed to learn its rules… the hard way…. by getting out there and blogging… pushing my comment past […]

Thanks to Neville for picking up my campaign : he has articulated Land Rover’s opportunity so well… Have a read…..
Note: Originally posted at SmartApps

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