Category: Business

  • Troubling times for Blognation coming to a head

    Ever since Blognation opened its virtual doors last July, it’s been one of my primary essential daily destinations for RSS reading. It’s an ambitious idea from Sam Sethi – build a network of blogs covering news about emerging startups in…

  • Trust is essential for social networks

    2008 will be the year of business networking, says Bernard Lunn, who offers six predictions about some of the social networks that are getting a lot of attention at the moment – Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and Plaxo. He also mentions…

  • It takes more than gestures to deliver amazing customer service

    It makes a nice change to have my expectations about Virgin Media exceeded. Mind you, those expectations were pretty low so it didn’t take much – just a phone call. I got that call last Thursday morning from a supervisor…

  • Disruptive is good for 3

    I spent an interesting and enjoyable couple of hours at mobile operator 3‘s UK headquarters in Maidenhead last week in the company of a handful of bloggers and some executives from 3. Arranged by Parys Communications, one of 3’s PR…

  • A brewing PR problem for Skype

    I’ve been hearing more about some people’s unhappiness with Skype over the withdrawal of London 0207 SkypeIn numbers. I’ve not had any email from Skype to say my SkypeIn number is one of those that will be withdrawn. Is it…