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To follow or not to follow, is that the question?

The wise old social media connector will encourage you to accept all those who find their way to your Social Media profiles and circle them, accept them as friends, like or follow them back. Something attracted these people to you, right?  Well, yes, even if they are using follower find tools it means a keyword [...]

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Not responding well to the daily grind. What would you do to give your customers a little something extra?

Not responding well to the daily grind. What would you do to give your customers a little something extra?

A little business conundrum for you from the High Street today, showing why it is important that young people are given a good grounding (sic) in assessing business loss and the courage to maintain face-to-face customer relations in adversity.

It’s 12…

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How does it feel to be home alone? When virtual hugs are not enough.

I was saddened to hear Esther Rantzen on Jeremy Vine’s show today saying that she is lonely.. Ms Rantzen, has always been a bit of a hero, for her early investigative journalism/consumer rights campaigning (That’s Life was a must see in our household),…

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Are you making a hash of tagging?

The hashtag is part of the Twitter party that seems to be a real struggle for beginners. It’s dad dancing at it’s worst; gaining attention for all the wrong reasons and often encouraging people to move away from you rather than follow. Accepted as a great way to help spread and organise information, as clicking on [...]

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Another pond to fish in? Is Empire Avenue right for you?

  Is there an irony in the fact that in an economically depressed time that many businesses are spending time and therefore money staking their place in a virtual value environment on Empire Avenue a.k.a. EaV?   Would this be a good and safe training ground for budding young entrepreneurs? Anyone 13 years or older [...]

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Is Klout really accessing your protected Tweets?

Firstly thanks for a Thursday night puzzler to Arthur aka @AyPee via @jkcallas for Tweeting the article.

What a conundrum appears to be presented. A person protects their Tweets, does not sign up to Klout, but still has a Klout score, topics of influe…

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Which paddock peacock has got it right online?

Ever had some of those weeks where the days seem too short, and everything you do takes twice as long? Well it’s a bit like that here at the moment, thanks to a cold which has taken the Action out of the Coach. Seriously missing the gym; walks up to town just not the same. [...]

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Was a German ex- baker the founder of sports promotion?

A German with a passion for extreme sports is credited with being the first entrepreneur to use sports promotion to raise awareness of a product brand. Adolf Dassler, known to his mates as Adi, threw away his kneading skills learnt as a baker to take up his father’s trade, cobbling and became a runaway (sic) [...]

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Racing drivers of yesteryear fitter than today?

Interesting observation attributed to Nigel Mansell in Cycling Weekly as to why many of today’s racing drivers aren’t nearly as fit as they could be; later in the piece amended to drivers in his day probably being stronger as the machinery has power steering and driver aids. This is contradictory to the incredible level of [...]

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Can you guess what young people tend to read outside of class?

Remember the jokes about the young rioters not touching Waterstones (bookshop)? The Literacy Trust has issued their first Reading Report analysing the reading habits of over 18,000 8 – 17 year olds and determined that 1 in 6 children don’t read a singl…

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