UK Business Book Festival

Posted by luke on Jul 28, 2010 in blog, seminars | 0 comments

Another cool business/tech/web event to tell you about:

The UK Business Book Festival on Sept 10th

I’m very honoured to of been asked to speak during the ignite session and get involved with the event in general… sadly, I’m out of the country on that day but that doesn’t stop me sharing it with you.

Regular readers of this blog will know I’m passionate about growing more of a tech/creative community in Bournemouth (from my involvement in Startup-meetup, meetdraw and Bar Camp Bournemouth) and events like this form an integral part in focussing attention on this part of the world.

If you’d like to present at the ignite session (5 min slots) please drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch with the organisers.

introducing James

Posted by luke on Jul 16, 2010 in blog | 0 comments

Yes, I have failed. I have not made time (note I never say “had time”) to blog in the last month… which is terrible.

It’s been a busy and exciting time here at socialtech towers, we’re in the process (in case you hadn’t noticed) of re-branding all our sites and, more importantly, expanding!

It gives me great pleasure to introduce James to the team!

Name: James Williams (no relation to Luke)

Job title: Production manager = James makes tea, phonecalls and video.

Hobbies: Music and film making

I’m also really proud to say that James has reached the final (last 10) in the Vice Magazine / Kopparberg Klash artistic short film competition – see his entry over at the (unfinished) ebusiness media site

James will be representing us at Meetdraw, while I’m on holiday – please say hi!

Notes from the Learning Practitioners Forum

Posted by luke on Jun 17, 2010 in blog | 0 comments

I attended the Element K Learning Practitioners Forum at the start of June, a ½ day event in central London with some excellent speakers.

The focus of the event was e-learning and learning technologies. I’ve had a couple of people ask for a copy of my notes, who were unable to attend, or who saw my tweets and wanted to know more and so I’ve (finally, sorry!) typed up my notes here.

All of the talks were excellent;  there were a few key topics I was listening out for and I’ve paraphrased the bits from those talks I especially took away and added some of my notes to them.

NB: Quotes are in “double quotes” my notes are in italics.

a wordle of agency taglines

Posted by luke on May 26, 2010 in blog | 1 comment

I’m in the process of slightly re-focussing/re-branding the socialtech world… I thought I’d take 10 mins and pull words from other web agency sites (some marketing, some creative, some techy) as part of forming an idea of how other businesses describe themselves… where there were variations of the same word (eg delivering delivered) I used the most common spelling.

I then took this list into wordle to get another perspective, the larger the word the higher the frequency it showed up in my list.

Marketing is the clear winner.

I also thought it was interesting that 3 sites use “useable” which some people would argue isn’t a real word…

An interesting new feature on LinkedIn company pages

Posted by luke on May 4, 2010 in blog, tips | 0 comments

Search for or visit any company page and you’ll see a new option to “follow” a given company for updates to their company page.

Interesting that the “All employees” option will only be available to paid up members, but is free for now.

Uses?

If you wanted to work for specific organisations, you can now subscribe to them to receive an email when they post a new job (assuming they used LinkedIn to do so of course).. probably has some uses for recruiters too.

One idea that I’d suggest to any organisation looking to recruit, is to monitor if anyone is following your company page – I think it’s interesting that you could see potential candidates before posting a job advert.

Do you think this is a useful feature? I can’t see much use in it yet (apart from recruitment), if it published the news items into people’s feed it would be more useful.

See also: LinkedIn Blog about following company pages