Category: Business

  • Stories from the big connected world

    This past week has been one of those where-did-the-time-go? weeks. A mixture of work of the type that requires close attention and intense focus along with a business trip to the south of France for two days resulted in a…

  • How to understand sentiment from analysing big data

    Because analysis and interpretation of behaviours online is a big part of what my firm WCG does for its living, I pay attention to new ideas and different thinking on how to zero in on what you need from data…

  • The success of the Ealing Tweetup

    If you’ve been to a tweetup, you know the kind of thing it typically is: an informal get-together of like-minded people, usually in a pub or other social venue, who sign up on Twtvite to say ‘yes’ or ‘maybe’ they’d…

  • Top German firms ban Facebook and Twitter

    Most of the 30 blue-chip firms listed in Germany’s DAX stock market index are banning employee use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter according to a report in the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, as reported in the…

  • Help with understanding technology in business from the BBC

    Last month at a Dell social-business event I participated in, I met Jeremy Hillman, the BBC’s business and economics editor, and one of the mainstream media representatives at the event. He was telling me about Technology of Business, a new…