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FIR Speakers and Speeches: Antony Mayfield on Advanced Persistent Opportunities at #SMWB2B

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29 September 2012

Listen Now: While social business design is much discussed, we struggle when it comes to bringing about wholesale change in an organization. Perhaps it is because we are trying to describe these new opportunities in business language that is outmoded and inappropriate. How can we “re-imagine nearly everything” about how our businesses work? In his keynote presentation at The Dell B2B Social Media Huddle in London on September 24, 2012, author and digital strategist Antony Mayfield looks at some models…
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Business, Communication, Marketing, Professional Development, Social Networks

Fine-tune your LinkedIn profile with Endorsements

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29 September 2012

If you use LinkedIn, the social network for business, you’ll very likely be interested in a new feature LinkedIn is rolling out that gives you the ability to rate the people in your network on their skills and expertise. Others in your network can do the same for you if they choose to. LinkedIn Endorsements lets you “endorse” your connections for a skill they’ve listed on their profile or recommend one they haven’t added yet. In other words, you’re recommending…
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FIR Interview: FeedBlitz CEO Phil Hollows on RSS and the future of Feedburner

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28 September 2012

Listen Now: In May, Google quietly announced it would shut down the API for FeedBurner, the most popular tool for managing and measuring RSS feeds. While the service will continue to process RSS feeds – only third-party apps that use the service will be affected – Google has been quiet about the service’s future, telling TechCrunch as recently as September 24 that the company had nothing to announce. Meanwhile, speculation is rampant that the long-neglected service for which Google paid…
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Business, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, Technology, Trends

Freedom from charger entanglement

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27 September 2012

If you have lots of mobile and other portable devices as I do, I bet you have a lot of chargers to go with them, undoubtedly one charger per device. I just did a quick count around the office: ten devices – mobile phones, portable drives, Kindles, wifi kit, etc – and twelve chargers (I guess I no longer have the devices two chargers came with). It’s the bane of modern connected life as the connection points are usually different…
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FIR Speakers and Speeches: Dave Coplin, Microsoft, on Future Forward at #SMWB2B

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26 September 2012

Listen Now: The web is quietly, but quickly, undergoing a social revolution, blending the analogue and digital worlds to become even more powerful in the way we all live, work and play. That’s a core premise that Dave Coplin, Director of Search UK at Microsoft, shared with participants of The Dell B2B Social Media Huddle in his keynote presentation in London on September 24, 2012. Search is at the very heart of this change as the internet evolves to be…
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