Are you begging for a bad social media provider?

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This article is pretty much guaranteed to come off a little rant-like, but we have your best interests at heart here, so please bear with us.

There’s a huge problem afflicting

Facebook Timeline privacy settings – the check you STILL need to make

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NOTE: as of today (31st January 2012), the below is only of concern if you’ve upgraded your personal Facebook profile to the new “Timeline” format. If you haven’t (or Facebook hasn’t yet done it for you, as it will do eventually), you need to come back and check your privacy is intact AFTER the change :)

Reading through today’s social media news, I came across an article just published on the Guardian’s website, asking “What if your Facebook Timeline was read instead of your CV?”. Not a huge concern to me personally, I tend not to post anything hugely personal and / or incriminating on Facebook, plus I was pretty sure I was on top of my privacy settings. But the mention of changes around the introduction of the Timeline format gave me a nagging doubt, so I thought i’d revisit my settings and just, y’know, double check.

Web 2.0 one, Google (and Sky) nil

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Service fail, web win
Earlier this week, I needed to cancel our Sky subscription. I’d heard on the grapevine to expect Sky not to make it easy for me, and I

Will marketing eat LinkedIn?

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It’s been a while since I’ve gone for a proper rant here, but this one’s been brewing for a while. And my chosen victim is….. LinkedIn.
How LinkedIn is meant to

How to make next week even better than this one

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Within the last seven days, I’ve had the pleasure of hearing from, or working with, three inspirational leaders in the area of growing businesses.

Nigel Botteril, owner of no less than