It's been a while since I talked about what I've been up to, so I wanted to post an update. I've had a few people asking, and without microblogging (microbragging?) on Twitter, I forgot that a lot of you wouldn't know!
I've just finished some work for Apple which was really interesting. I have been researching social trends with regards emerging technology, to give them a presentation and report on how to evolve the Apple brand through community. I came up with the tagline "evolving through community" whilst working on the project, which I'm going to use as my company strapline.
Which brings me nicely onto a request for help - I have been trading under my own name, just because I never got round to thinking up anything better. However, I want to use something else, but I'm at a loss. Anyone got any suggestions? If you make a suggestion that I go with, I'll send you a hamper pack of my favourite Alergian coffee and chocolate :)
I've also been working on a social media strategy for Cogs Agency, and marketing work at Chinwag. Coming up, I've got some interesting research work in Second Life for Cheeze, and a recruitment project for a very exciting start up project that I can't talk about *just* yet but as soon as I can I'll let you all know.
So, all in all a blummin' busy January, and February's looking fairly hectic too! All very exciting.
I'm off to SheSays tonight, followed by Digital Outlook's 10th Birthday bash tonight, so will take my camera out for some good party shots, it's been a while since I got some noo meedja partay action pics!
I've just finished some work for Apple which was really interesting. I have been researching social trends with regards emerging technology, to give them a presentation and report on how to evolve the Apple brand through community. I came up with the tagline "evolving through community" whilst working on the project, which I'm going to use as my company strapline.
Which brings me nicely onto a request for help - I have been trading under my own name, just because I never got round to thinking up anything better. However, I want to use something else, but I'm at a loss. Anyone got any suggestions? If you make a suggestion that I go with, I'll send you a hamper pack of my favourite Alergian coffee and chocolate :)
I've also been working on a social media strategy for Cogs Agency, and marketing work at Chinwag. Coming up, I've got some interesting research work in Second Life for Cheeze, and a recruitment project for a very exciting start up project that I can't talk about *just* yet but as soon as I can I'll let you all know.
So, all in all a blummin' busy January, and February's looking fairly hectic too! All very exciting.
I'm off to SheSays tonight, followed by Digital Outlook's 10th Birthday bash tonight, so will take my camera out for some good party shots, it's been a while since I got some noo meedja partay action pics!
Jamie Riddell over at Cheeze has just written a very useful post on boosting your SEO links. I've been doing a fair bit of work on this for Chinwag recently, so it's good to see it all summed up in a easily digestable blog post.
It seems I'm not the only person working out there's more to life than live blogging your every living moment. Since starting my experiment just before Christmas, I've noticed a few other key people mentioning and picking up on the quietening down trend.
Lloyd Davis' recent post "Why I'm not in Seesmic at the moment" sums up a lot of my discontent with Seesmic, although I'll save my proper rant about it for another day when I'm more angsty.
Jamie Riddell from Cheeze summed up the Scoble vs Facebook fight rather well.
And now this morning I see a Tweet (yes, I still have a sneaky peak now and then) from Alan Patrick saying, "Am amazed at the no. of twitternuts saying they are giving up Facebook....I sense a trend!". He's also blogged about it here: Are the mavens deserting Facebook?
I've also noticed the way certain people use Twitter is starting to grate me more and more. When I have popped by for a quck peak (which I've done probably twice in the last few weeks) there's been a few people using it as an instant message style product. It really really isn't. The clue is in the "What are you doing?" question that you're supposed to answer. Not, "Please discuss something with one person that the other 10-500 people following you will have to "listen" to".
If your discussion goes over one reply - get on the text, IM, MSN, Yahoo!Chat, email whatever the hell you like but don't think that anyone else is interested in your conversation with someone about anything. Because honestly: we're not. This is now an instant cull from anyone I follow. I love hearing what people are up to, but I really hate hearing people jabber on with each other about something I care nothing about. Also, it shows you have no concept of what medium to use for your communications. End of rant.
Other than noticing that in sharp detail, not a lot else has really changed in my social media life. The world carries on regardless, I haven't lost all my friends overnight, and I'm still getting offers for work. More so, in fact. And I've more real time to do real things. Where before I sat spending a good 2 hours a day updating my various social networks, now I spend that 2 hours reading well written news and blogs and making up my own mind about what's going on.
That's not to say I don't miss it. Twitter mostly, but interestingly only a few people on there. I think when I come back I will be culling more and listening more, as opposed to listening to the noise too worried to weed out the boring and spammy Tweeters. I'm just going to make it work for me, and that means only interesting Tweeters only.
Lloyd Davis' recent post "Why I'm not in Seesmic at the moment" sums up a lot of my discontent with Seesmic, although I'll save my proper rant about it for another day when I'm more angsty.
Jamie Riddell from Cheeze summed up the Scoble vs Facebook fight rather well.
And now this morning I see a Tweet (yes, I still have a sneaky peak now and then) from Alan Patrick saying, "Am amazed at the no. of twitternuts saying they are giving up Facebook....I sense a trend!". He's also blogged about it here: Are the mavens deserting Facebook?
I've also noticed the way certain people use Twitter is starting to grate me more and more. When I have popped by for a quck peak (which I've done probably twice in the last few weeks) there's been a few people using it as an instant message style product. It really really isn't. The clue is in the "What are you doing?" question that you're supposed to answer. Not, "Please discuss something with one person that the other 10-500 people following you will have to "listen" to".
If your discussion goes over one reply - get on the text, IM, MSN, Yahoo!Chat, email whatever the hell you like but don't think that anyone else is interested in your conversation with someone about anything. Because honestly: we're not. This is now an instant cull from anyone I follow. I love hearing what people are up to, but I really hate hearing people jabber on with each other about something I care nothing about. Also, it shows you have no concept of what medium to use for your communications. End of rant.
Other than noticing that in sharp detail, not a lot else has really changed in my social media life. The world carries on regardless, I haven't lost all my friends overnight, and I'm still getting offers for work. More so, in fact. And I've more real time to do real things. Where before I sat spending a good 2 hours a day updating my various social networks, now I spend that 2 hours reading well written news and blogs and making up my own mind about what's going on.
That's not to say I don't miss it. Twitter mostly, but interestingly only a few people on there. I think when I come back I will be culling more and listening more, as opposed to listening to the noise too worried to weed out the boring and spammy Tweeters. I'm just going to make it work for me, and that means only interesting Tweeters only.
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