If you’ve followed me online, you might know that I’m the mum of a 13 year old boy with Asperger’s syndrome who’s had a bit of a traumatic time lately (see previous post).
I’m going to do what the wonderful Lloyd Davis, who is a good friend, has been doing and ask my [...]
My take on Technology for Marketing and Advertising.
Very often while walking through the aisles, you could see Social Media on the list of services offered by the exhibitors. I was interested in how this goes together with the fact that the #tfma twitterstream wasn’t exactly going crazy. The only audioboo posted at the [...]
I’m a member of a few real-life communities whose members are spread out all over the world, and who would really benefit from being tightly connected by technology. Throughout the years, I’ve always tried to help, built online forums etc. The very old BBS still exist, but the forums have come and gone as technology [...]
Below is a mail I received today while planning some events. This is the sort of thing that could easily be said in less than 140 characters (and I feel that twitter is teaching us to be less wasteful!) How about saying
Thanks for getting in touch – fully booked that date, are you flexible [...]
Social Media
Everyone around us creates content all time. Smartphones take pictures and record video, and we all join in conversations online by leaving comments on news websites, blogs and online shops.
What’s happening in Social Media right now is that methods are being developed for making these conversations discoverable to the people they are [...]
Stanza has become this year’s late discovery. It’s an iPhone app, free to download from the app store, and my first experience with ebooks.
The app is very well structured, and the reading experience is surprisingly smooth. iPhones have large touchscreens and touching on the right side turns [...]
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