July 2009

Happy Happy — my blog lives again

by Lee Hopkins on July 26, 2009 · 2 comments

in blogging,customer service,housekeeping,tools

Thanks to the wonderful customer support folks at Bluehost.com I am back online — my own tinkering and a slight database hiccup meant that my blog had disappeared for the last 48-72 hours. Thank you again, bluehost team! Tweet

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links for 2009-07-16

by Lee Hopkins on July 16, 2009 · 0 comments

in micro-blogging

Buzz Canuck: The Un-Agency – A Cure for What Ails You, Brands? "Consider that 2/3rds of brands have rebranded themselves in the last 3 years (at considerable expense), that only 10% of financial executives believe marketers can estimate their effort's business impact, that CMO's average lifespan is 27 months and only 32% of them even [...]

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BCR 047: 16th July 2007

by Lee Hopkins on July 16, 2009 · 9 comments

in bcr pod/vidcast

And yet more on creativity: does age matter?

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BCR 046: 15th July 2007

by Lee Hopkins on July 16, 2009 · 0 comments

in bcr pod/vidcast,public speaking

What creativity-channelling tricks do YOU use to bring forth the flow?

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links for 2009-07-10

by Lee Hopkins on July 10, 2009 · 0 comments

in micro-blogging

Official Google Blog: Find Creative Commons images with Image Search (tags: images image creativecommons search) 5 Steps for Successful Social Media Damage Control (tags: pr crisis damage socialmedia) Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs #stellar! (tags: font typography css webdesign) 17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts | Web Design Ledger (tags: webdesign fonts) Lifehacker – [...]

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When did social media start? Probably about 7.34pm on a mild Tuesday in mid-April, around 165,000 BCE

by Lee Hopkins on July 10, 2009 · 1 comment

in academic research,blogging,clippings,miscellaneous

It was a small leap from Eve to this very blog before you and some would argue that the language hasn’t developed much in the interim, either

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Grumpy Old Communicators – good grief!

by Lee Hopkins on July 9, 2009 · 0 comments

in bcr pod/vidcast,clippings,podcasting

Yes, those two intrepid curmudgeons, Jenkins and Hopkins, are back at the CommsCafe.

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Isobel Redmond – leader of SA’s opposition

by Lee Hopkins on July 9, 2009 · 0 comments

in interviews,podcasting,politics

I normally don’t get involved with politics, as long time readers of this blog know, but those who follow South Australia’s (or even Australia’s) politics could not have failed to notice that there’s been a bit of argy-bargy going on within the Liberal Party in the last few weeks. I’m not going to comment further, [...]

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