Archive for April, 2007

The Third Pig Detective Agency

April 30, 2007

Several months ago, when I wrote a column about social networking resources for writers, I had help from one such author.  My friend Bob Burke writes children’s fiction and he’s given me a real insight into the world of the aspiring novelist.
It’s no surprise that it’s an ideal building ground for an online social network.  The best site [...]

Please State Your Complaint - I’m Sorry - Time’s Up!

April 25, 2007

Hugh Green comments that Eircom have come up with an inspired strategy for dealing with customer complaints. The online complaints form on their website has been modified to take no more than 400 characters of complaint. If you can’t say it in 2.5 text messages, then tough!
It would appear that this bears all [...]

Watch This 3-Minute Video - Save Yourself Hours

April 24, 2007

I’m long overdue a post here, and I have lots to talk about.  I planned to post about something else entirely today, and then I saw a tweet from Robert Scoble about something more important.
This is important because it will save you time.  If you already use a feed reader, or an aggregator, or you [...]

Podcasters Of The World

April 11, 2007

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Originally uploaded by jagelado.
Thanks to Jose A Gelado for posting this picture of a group of us at a London restaurant while attending at the European Corporate Podcasting Summit last month. Podcasters from Israel, Spain, USA, Ireland, UK and Denmark.

Diary Of A Startup

April 11, 2007

Last week I left my “day-job” and became a full-time entrepreneur.   Months of conflict and job-juggling has come to an end and, once again, this website takes a new direction.
What started a year ago as an experiment in blogging in English, soon became an important platform for me to develop my ideas with the help of others.  That is still very [...]