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The SocialITe
Discussing the trends, technologies and corporate strategies for social media.
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About the blog
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Twitter hacked: "Unemployed Single Mom"
01 Jul 2011 -
Small world of social media
27 May 2011
Discussing the trends, technologies and corporate strategies for social media.
As the whole of Britain relaxes to watch Andy Murray take on Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, it seems that a hacker has managed to infiltrate Twitter, causing a wave of spam tweets featuring the words ...
I have an HTC Desire phone. It's a great phone, but the battery life is not so good when doing a lot of work online and the internal memory is woefully poor - I'm always bumping up against the ...
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Social protest to reclaim São Paulo metro station
11 May 2011 -
How do you measure social media value?
26 Apr 2011 -
A true story of IT resilience - direct from Cairo
19 Apr 2011 -
Xcel wetsuits surf into eBay marketing
16 Mar 2011 -
A social media "guru" speaks
08 Mar 2011 -
I am Egyptian, I will start by myself...
03 Mar 2011 -
Ealing Tweetup - could it be the end of an era?
21 Feb 2011
In most cities it's a time of joy when the local mayor or council extends the public metro system. It becomes easier for residents to travel within their own city and it can change and positively ...
Everyone I know struggles to measure the value of social media. Is it all about the number of followers you have on Twitter? Or the number of retweets, or fans who LIKE you on Facebook?I personally ...
In the midst of the recent Egyptian revolution, I told a story on this blog of an IT company called Arkdev in Cairo that went to every possible length to keep working with their American clients - ...
Sometimes you hear about acts of guerilla marketing that are almost too good to be true, but they happen when someone in marketing has the guts to exploit a situation that favours them and their ...
In David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Mark Zuckerberg mentions several times that he believes it is now only possible to have one identity. By identity he means the impression others get ...
What do you do if you are running an IT firm in Cairo, Egypt and suddenly the government collapses, the Internet is switched off, and the mobile phones don't work?It was obvious to Arkdev CEO, ...
Since early in 2009 I have been hosting the semi-regular Ealing tweetups. I started this because I lived in Ealing (west London for the non-Londoners) and I noticed quite a few Twitter messages ...
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NASSCOM promotes blogging at their own conference
21 Feb 2011 -
PA Consulting blog entire conference
18 Feb 2011 -
Outrageous tweet about Egypt
03 Feb 2011 -
Adversity breeds innovation
01 Feb 2011 -
Staying connected at conferences
31 Jan 2011
As I mentioned in my last blog, I was at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum in Mumbai recently. For the past few years, NASSCOM has asked me to be one of their official bloggers at the event - ...
I know I've been quiet in the blog recently, but I've been travelling from Brazil to India via Germany and back to Brazil via the UK and when on the road so much, it's hard to keep contributing ...
Need I write anything? Just outrageous... even with the "apology"...!
At business school, professors teach eager MBA students that true innovation only ever happens in a time of crisis. Sure, companies can set up research labs all over the world and hire a bunch of ...
I was a bit surprised to see a tweet today from Gartner analyst Merv Adrian where he mentioned that he is at the Gartner BI conference in London and a delegate in the audience had asked him to stop ...