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FortyTwoTimes is motoring along quite nicely

by Lee Hopkins on February 2, 2012 · 0 comments

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Duncan Riley (he of Techcrunch and The Inquisitr fame) has a new site – FortyTwoTimes.com

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‘Unearthed’ is a fabulous snapshot of the growth of a group and how social media has been an underpinning platform in its development.

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Bipolar disorder

by Lee Hopkins on September 15, 2011 · 2 comments

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TODAY IS ‘R U OKAY?’ Day here in Australia. So I thought it appropriate to post some information about the disease I suffer from, Bipolar Disorder II. Feel free to share the information with others if you think it will help. I’ve also just launched a companion website to my DepressionAndBipolar.info site — DefeatingBipolar.com. You’ll [...]

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Is auto-posting to Facebook a bad idea?

by Lee Hopkins on August 9, 2011 · 2 comments

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  MARSHALL KIRKPATRICK over at the esteemed ReadWriteWeb argues that auto-posting your blogposts via WordPress’ brand new integration feature to your business’ Facebook Page is a bad thing to do. Tests by ReadWriteWeb’s new Community Manager Robyn Tippins showed that manually posting (a ten-minute chore) versus auto-posting (a ten-minute one-time setup then no time involvement [...]

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Today is World Social Media Day

by Lee Hopkins on June 30, 2011 · 1 comment

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IT’S THURDAY 30th June 2011 and around the world tweetups (‘meetups’ for the untwittered) are taking place, events being run and drinks being drunk. It’s a celebration for all that is ‘social media’, in all of its guises and platforms, in all of its fads and fashions, its famous and its failures. Here in sunny [...]

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Originally posted on my doctorate blog Marius and Suzana Bulearca have paved the way for a study into the way SMEs are using Twitter as a marketing tool. As a pilot of their proposed larger-scale research project, they interviewed a Marketing Account Executive of a London-based fundraising, marketing and communications agency whose employees and management [...]

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BCR078: Competition looming

by Lee Hopkins on March 22, 2011 · 0 comments

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I will shortly be announcing a cool competition to win a Plantronics M100 earpiece. Stay tuned. For facebook readers: video is here Cool competition coming Technorati Tags: plantronics, earpiece, m100, bluetooth, business communication, lee hopkins Tweet

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Sharpening the saw, amazingly

by Lee Hopkins on January 31, 2011 · 3 comments

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Don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to picking up a copy of Arthur Plotnick’s forthcoming book, Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location:Scotland Rd,Mile End South,Australia Tweet

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Melcrum free intranet case study

by Lee Hopkins on January 24, 2011 · 1 comment

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Download a free feature length case-study from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia which details how web and communication teams worked hand-in-hand to create an intranet that encourages collaboration across the organisation

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Shel Holtz has a great post about the current and potential uses of QR codes for retail businesses. That reminded me of my experience a few months ago at my local Best Buy. I was looking for the furniture on which you set a large flat-panel television, but the cards attached to each floor sample [...]

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