Using IT in business generally – but especially using the Internet – enables us to implement tools and strategies that radically alter the speed at which we do things. In 1999, Bill Gates termed this ‘Business at the Speed of Thought‘, and wrote a book about it in which he said: Looking back we can […]
Archive | September, 2010
The new Twitter – not what we signed up for?
Nowhere is the maxim “adapt or die” more apt than in the IT industry. And within the IT industry, the social media niche has seen such interest and growth that simply sitting on laurels and living on past successes is not an option. This is probably one of the reasons why Twitter has revealed a […]
How to use social media to build website traffic & sales
They say a picture speaks a thousand words, well here’s one I thought about a few days ago. I suppose this should really be some sort of virtuous circle kind of diagram as social media can be a virtuous (or vicious) circle, but the top-to-bottom approach starting with inputs and ending with the outputs appealed […]
The need for speed
I’m old school geek. I’m so old school geek, I remember the days of 4,800 and 9,600 baud modems that squealed excruciatingly like fax machines. But I’m even more old school geek than that. I once ran a BBS in my spare time. On an Intel 486 PC. Using Windows 3.11. With 2 whole MB […]