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Seeking a cure for email overload
13th January 2012

"The biggest disease in our company is the cc! Why do we cc the world?!". This comment was overheard on the tube into Canary Wharf. It typifies the frustration of returning from a relaxing holiday break to an inevitable email avalanche. With a range of social media at our fingertips, it is easy to forget that email is most people’s primary business tool for information management and collaboration.

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Know your SOPA rights
10th January 2012

Last night I attended a meeting of a speakers' group. We meet regularly to practise our public speaking skills and receive feedback from one another in an effort to improve. The main topic of discussion last night, a topic I presented to the group, was a recent co-ed by Vinton Cerf on whether internet access is a human right.

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Twitter list management
8th January 2012

If you are running a social media presence, or using social media as research tools, then there a couple of things worth noting in Hunter Walk's blog about how we tend to inevitably add more noise to our social media than we need to. Particularly pertinent is the idea that following back anybody who follows you on Twitter is the "polite" and correct thing to do. It seems rude not to. But as humans ourselves there is a limit to the number of information sources we can manage.

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If you have to cut loose...
6th January 2012

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More mobile than ever
6th January 2012

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Investigating the uses for (and usefulness of) Google+
4th January 2012

After Google Buzz and Google Wave, most people consider Google+ to be the company's third attempt to "do" social software. They've clearly got a large user base for search and Gmail, which they hope to convert to using the service. 2012 is probably the make or break year for Google+ having, it seems, performed better than many analysts expected in 2011.

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