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Small business 2.0 and Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

It’s rare for me to plug events on the blog here at SmallBizPod, but I’m speaking at one of them and pleased to be part of the blogger relations activity for the other.
What’s more I reckon both events will appeal to the startups and small business owners amongst you.
The first is Small Business 2.0, a [...]

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Adobe Connect: digital meeting rooms

Had a demonstration session from Adobe the other day. It was making its Connect Pro strut itself with a whole bunch of us from Freeform Dynamics. Very impressive it was too.
What is it? Another web conferencing service. Or you can buy it for in-house installation. We were using the hosted service. It uses [...]

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Free screen sharing and chat with Yuuguu

It’s always good when you stumble across free software that does a ‘good enough’ job. Of course, the minute you stick your hand in your pocket, the game changes. You suddenly expect 24×7 support and service level agreements.
Last week at Office 2.0, I met some folk from Yuuguu. It’s an early-stage UK-based company which has [...]

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iFoods and the Dragons’ Den effect online

I normally resist the temptation to rake over the ashes of the entrepreneurs and inventors subjected to the flames of BBC2’s Dragons.  That said I remember the interview I did with an early victim, Amanda Zuydervelt of stylebible.com, very fondly.
But this week’s episode of Dragon’s Den is worth some follow-up, partly because one of the [...]

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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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SmallBizPod #36 - Wednesday 20 December

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SmallBizPod #61 - Levi Roots Podcast

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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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