The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
I am a big advocate of “doing the work”, tools and applications are secondary. Having the latest gadget or using the hottest application in Social Media are not as important as engaging in the conversation or sharing valuable content. Unless that is, they improve performance, effectiveness or efficiency. My priority is always effectiveness over efficiency. [...]
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Could this be the rival tablet that is going to get the Android platform some market share? The recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab with a 10.1 inch screen, dual core processor, front and rear cameras is certainly a great looking piece of kit. They haven’t held back in their creativity when it comes to promoting [...]
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Up until a few weeks ago I had a Content Curation methodology I was happy with, then something changed. Part of successful Blogging is reading a lot, and I mean a lot. I have often got 2 or 3 books on the go. I’m scanning Twitter and Google+ hourly, I subscribed to some key source [...]
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So often we have that big idea that is going to take on the competition. The one that’s going to pay off the mortgage or achieve the Tim Ferris dream 4 Hour Work Week. We spend time with business plans, we buy domains, design web sites, adding widgets and constructing SEO strategies. After weeks, or [...]
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People often comment on the amount I Tweet, amazed that I find the time. Really, it’s not that time consuming. If you have a schedule, make use of mobile technology and certain applications, Tweeting interesting information regularly is quite simple. At the same time, like your email inbox it’s easy to get caught in your [...]
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With newspapers suffering due to the popularity of blogging, online news portals and electronic magazines, it wasn’t going to be long before they started to bite back. Ad revenues adversely effected by lower readership means it is now a fight for survival. Much like the music industry before them, they have thought themselves invisible to [...]
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Amazon have shown great humility as well as great business sense this week with the announcement they are to list the Apple iPad, competitor of the Amazon Kindle, on their web site. The only online retailer to list the iPad other than Apple, they are obviously looking to dominate the eBook market with their popular [...]
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This morning as I was packing for holiday I took inventory of what was required, Sat Nav, camera, video, camera, phone, books, chargers, music, DVDs and games for the kids. Along with my clothes, as is the case every year, I have the intention of packing like a minimalist but never seem to achieve it. [...]
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The iPad is now available in the UK, another gloriously designed object of desire from Apple. As with all products of this type nobody actually “needs” one. But then again the lure of the latest piece of “kit” is as irresistible to a Web Geek as a shiny object is to a magpie. So how [...]
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