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Is your data safe on US visits?

Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco (Sep 3-5). It would require a degree of diary shuffling and careful planning to justify my attendance. It still gobbles fuel, time and money so I’m still trying to decide what to do for the best.
No doubt the conference presentations [...]

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Webslides are go

I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a slide show of web pages. Does that sound boring? I’m not sure it is.
Marjolein Hoekstra in the Netherlands (she calls herself CleverClogs for good reason) alerted me to one of the services, called Diigo. It started out in 2005 [...]

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Hassle-free online conferencing

Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically distant in order to get their work done more quickly? By ‘intimately’ I mean a mix of voice and screen sharing among a smallish group of people.
And would you like to do this at a low fixed cost and with [...]

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The Cool Curve and related matters

Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]

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LinkedIn: an espionage tool?

I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking giant. A company which was valued last week at just over a billion dollars. Perhaps Aladdin thought it would ride the giant’s coat tails.
Unfortunately, the method it chose was to accuse LinkedIn of making industrial espionage easier. “Ah,” thought I, [...]

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Web 2.0 Strategies

Last week’s Web 2.0 Strategies conference in London brought together people who were anxious to find out whether and how to implement ‘Web 2.0′ in their organisations. They came with a generally favourable disposition towards the subject but most of those I spoke to were finding it difficult to engender enthusiasm among their senior management. [...]

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SmallBizPod #64 - British Library, Facebook and Startups

SmallBizPod #64 - British Library, Facebook and Startups

Putting the voices to the faces behind the startups on the British Library Business and IP Centre Facebook group. Includes an interview with the Neil Infield of the British Library on its social media strategy.

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SmallBizPod #57 - Enthuse, Exceed, Enjoy.  King of Shaves.

SmallBizPod #57 - Enthuse, Exceed, Enjoy. King of Shaves.

Will King, CEO of King of Shaves, on taking his shaving products business from year one debt of £30k to #2 in the UK market.

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SmallBizPod #34 - Wednesday 22 November

SmallBizPod #34 - Wednesday 22 November

Juliette Prouse, of Qube Communications interviews George Torok, Canadian marketing expert,on personal branding and getting one up on the competition.

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SmallBizPod #70 - Jagriti Yatra - a great entrepreneurial journey

SmallBizPod #70 - Jagriti Yatra - a great entrepreneurial journey

Interview with Gitanjali Banerjee Bhattacharya & Kaustav Bhattacharya about an extraordinary entrepreneurial train journey in India, what it hopes to achieve & how grass roots business can inspire social change.

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