Category: Social Media
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Google just disrupted the conference business with Hangouts On Air
If you organize conferences and similar events, your future in terms of how you organize and price your events just got really interesting. If you’re a conference-goer, events that might be out of reach to you for reasons of distance…
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Talking about the big online picture on June 25
A week today, I’ll be spending an evening in Bath, the ancient city in Somerset in southwest England and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bath is well known for two things in particular – the Roman Baths dating from the…
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The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+
The Financial Times’ post on Google+ yesterday was understated yet powerful: Today the Financial Times has reached 1m Google+ followers… Just three months ago, a survey reported that of all British national newspapers with a presence on Google’s social network,…
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Talking up Google+ Hangouts live
I took part in my first Google+ Hangout On Air yesterday, participating in a breakfast meeting of the appropriately-named Houston Social Media Breakfast, organized by Kami Huyse, as a guest speaker. You can watch the 42-minute recording of the session…
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Stream (and buy) music while you do the grocery shopping
If you do your grocery shopping in Tesco, you may already know that you can stay connected in the depths of the typical supermarket where no network signal usually reaches, thanks to Tesco’s own wifi network in most stores. Now,…