In my training sessions on Blogging and Social Media I am often explaining to clients the benefits of RSS and am always surprised to find that many business owners are not aware of how it works or how they can use it. RSS is short for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ and it is basically a standard [...]
Most people became aware of the SOPA and PIPA debate earlier this week when jessicazeun.com and many other websites went dark or displayed an alternative page for 24 hours in an attempt to draw attention to the issue. The most prominent site to do this was Wikipedia raising a cry from students all over the [...]
Well I promised an update on my use of Google+ and its features and I have to say, despite my previous comments about the lack of integration Google are certainly managing to win me over with their constant stream of new features as the beta progresses. I am finding more and more useful content and [...]
About a week ago I received an invitation to Google+ from one of my students (Thanks Haydn). When I followed the link I was disappointed to find that Google were no longer accepting new users, even with invitations. I have experienced this exclusivity idea before with the launch of Google Wave, however I still do not understand [...]
I was inspired to write this blog post today as I realised that I have got in to the habit of opening at least three different browsers when I sit down at my desk and log on to the computer. Google Chrome has definitely been my favourite for a while now due to its security [...]
The mass adoption of smart phones such as the iPhone and android based phones like the Samsung Galaxy S are providing people with instant access to information and social networking from any location.
I recently attended a seminar at the Training Foundry in Sheffield all about Cloud Computing. Although this was hosted by Microsoft and therefore heavily laden with information about their products it reminded me of just how mainstream this technology is now becoming. With major corporations like Coca Cola moving all of their operations to cloud [...]
