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Do away with boring text search and see what you’re looking for.
That’s the thrust of visual search from SearchMe, a startup search engine currently in public beta that offers you something a bit different, and visually more attractive, in your online searching.
The company has been around for some years. See this post on TechCrunch [...]

One of the new business books I have in my to-read pile is Groundswell by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.
My copy came last week courtesy of McGraw-Hill UK who distribute the book in Europe and South Africa.
I still have two other business books on the go at the moment - and two [...]

 
When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’
Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of participants if the overall audience is a non-geeky crowd.
Things then get interesting when I show an image [...]

Video startup seesmic has released a terrific conversational tool - a plugin for WordPress that enables you to create and post a video comment.
Not only that, it also enables a blogger to create a post that includes a video comment, just as I have done here:
Be seen and heard 
So if you want more [...]

Like most bloggers I know, I tend to link to information resources online when I’m writing about a particular topic.
One reason is simply that linking to an explanation of something provides a reader of your content with an opportunity to find out more, or see something in more depth, without you the blogger having [...]

One of my reflections on Disruptive Media, the conference in Stockholm last week in which I participated, is that being part of an event where everyone speaks a language that you don’t can present a few challenges.
Luckily, this is Sweden I’m talking about where, just as in the Netherlands, people go out of their [...]

Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are [...]

The next few weeks are a busy time for speaking at events. I’ve just updated my Events page to add new detail to some of the events I’m involved with.
If you’re thinking about participating in a social media-focused conference or workshop during this second half of April, I have a few (entirely subjective) recommendations!

Disruptive Media: [...]

An apres-dinner photo of Mike Manuel, John Welton, Josh Hallett and Rich Cline, all with Voce Communications in the US.
All visiting the UK during this past week and we got together in London on Saturday evening, in the company of some other great people who felt like being part of an informal get-together.
I’d met [...]

Dave Fleet posted a useful 6 Ways To Make Life Easier With Del.icio.us guide to getting more out of the social bookmarking service.
I’ve been using Delicious for some years, mostly as a means of centralizing collections of content I discover on my web travels that I find useful to know about, and want to [...]