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  • Blogging as part of a marketing role: Give it the time it deserves

    In the corporate world, there are more blogs than ever. Along the lines of 70% of Fortune 500 companies will have at least dipped a little toe in it by this year, according to Wikipedia’s utterly incomplete entry. For a…

  • Sushi & business have more in common than you might think

    A few months ago, we popped by Bluewater shopping centre in Kent to get my MacBook fixed and, being the total sushi addicts that we are, we couldn’t resist the detour by Yo Sushi when lunchtime rolled around. Even though…

  • Using Your Network to Grow as an Entrepreneur

    Recently, I’ve been thinking long and hard about ways to use the incalculably fantastic network of intelligent, experienced and creative people I’ve met over the past few years; 170 LinkedIn contacts, nearly a thousand Twitter followers, mountains of business cards…

  • Time to pick your favourite SXSW 2009 panels

    It’s barely been a few months since I’ve stopped clap-trapping on about how utterly awesome my first SXSW experience was, but yes, I’m already talking about the NEXT South by SouthWest. I realise it isn’t until March 2009 and that…

  • Meet Jeff the Screaming Monkey

    The screaming monkey on 12seconds.tv

  • Cory Doctorow talk for Cambridge Business Lectures

    In July, Cory Doctorow gave a talk on the Information Economy here in Cambridge, which was enlightening and very interesting. But so many ideas were being thrown at me all at once, I was looking forward to being able to…

  • I'm in London for Mobile Geeks & Tuttle Club

    As I’ve just mentioned on the Taptu blog, if you’re in London and you like the mobile world, there’s only one place to be this evening: Mobile Geeks of London (and here’s a non-Facebook link!) It’s an informal evening gathering…

  • It's the little things that make me happy

    The past few weeks have been a bit surreal, with much of my life seemingly happening with the Sky+ fast forward button stuck on 12x speed. Tonight, however, I’m taking a moment to step back and appreciate how many cool…

  • Like the new look?

    Moving from my old unreliable hosting to the rock-solid ServInt VPS hosting we use for pepsmedia clients felt like moving from a studio flat in some dirty backstreet to a Kensington mansion yesterday. So we thought we’d go the whole…

  • Shifting the blog to a new host

    If you see any funny business, please let me know. Otherwise, when you don’t see the big box at the top of the page, you’re seeing the new thatcanadiangirl!