3 days ago

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I've been waiting to invest in a smartphone for too long now.Considering the use I'd get out of the technology with its mobile access to my online requirements such as my blog, social media profiles, work etc . . . it's been bemusing watching the popularity grow for the devices in the general consumer market without owning (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: This last week has been a digitally reduced week, I've had relatively hardly any interaction with the world from a digital perspective.There's a rather wonderful reason for this and that's been the arrival of the little chap pictured above into our lives at home.This digital rest has allowed me to focus on my family and tho (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I wasn't going to write a post on Twitter Lists; I thought everyone will be writing posts on Twitter Lists across the blogging world.But then why make life hard for myself, it's certainly one of the hottest happenings of the last few weeks and something I'm actively involved with.Lists appeared for me last Wednesday, one da (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I'm currently reading Mike Cohn's book - "Agile Estimating and Planning", a very worthwhile read I'd recommend to anyone in digital production.There are numerous gems I've learnt during the read, the one I'm going share today is actually an old concept to me, but a very valuable one. The process of risk vs value definition. (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

SMC:posts I'd started writing this post back during the Iranian elections when I was delighted to see the voice that Twitter was giving the oppressed voters of Iran.Since then Twitter has gone on to prove as equally as powerful a tool and voice of free speech for numerous other causes.Recently we've seen the Trafigura case and almost (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: There's no getting away from it in my book, if you want to really excel at something, you'll struggle to do so without some hard work along the way.We live in a generation where we've all heard stories of the vast wealth that some of the tech pioneers have managed to accumulate in a relatively short space of time by simply (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: Impulse, intrigue, curiosity and a requirement to feel involved and involve others in what is effectively gossip is a powerful force in our human nature.I've recently been involved in a on-line campaign for a brand that harnessed the power of this need and combined it with social media to great effect. It got a serious mess (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I was up visiting my parents in the Lake District this weekend with my family. Lovely time had, I always enjoy returning there.While up there my parents had to spend part of their time on Saturday cleaning their holiday cottage in Eskdale; I took the time to squeeze in a good fell run in the valley (how selfish of me I hear (Read More)

Oct 02, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: We all need patience in our jobs, but to some it comes naturally and to others it will never come at all. That's just the way it is.As a project or account manager it comes with the territory that you'll have to learn how to have patience.You'll be expected to stay calm and to have patience when a client rolls through a who (Read More)

Sep 23, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: Why do we do this?Why do we feel the need to share, communicate, converse, promote ourselves with our fellow human beings to varying degrees?How has the evolution in our methods of doing these said things affected our personalities and positions within the natural pecking order in comparison to forms of communication that h (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: To me, luxury brands seem perfectly suited to embrace social and digital media, using the platforms to extend their customer service engagement to a new level and improve their brand awareness by engaging with their audience.Yet from previous searching for luxury brands using social media, I can see that this is still a mar (Read More)

Sep 14, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I was having an "out there" thinking session on my commute back from work the other day, umming and arring about the next developments that are going revolutionise the way we use the internet.We're all "socialed" up to the hilt now, with our social network accounts, communicating with each other from the moment we wake unti (Read More)

Sep 03, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: This post started as one idea and has evolved into another. I was going to rant and rave about how to use Twitter and how I see it as a communication platform, taking on everyone's opinions as equal and adding them to my understanding of the world.Then I paused . . . and then thought who the hell am I to dictate how anyone (Read More)

Sep 02, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: Media is evolving, well it's always been evolving, as everything does on this planet we inhabit. I'm specifically talking about Digital Media here though, the industry that pays my rent and bills.Digital Media has been around a lot longer than most credit it for, although in those days it may have been called Interactive Me (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Submitted by Digital Signals from blog: I've been meaning to write something on audience for a while and recent additions to my followers in Twitter have prompted me to write now.When writing a blog or even just your 140 character blurt on Twitter you need to consider your audience.You need to consider what your writing, who your targeting when you write and why (Read More)

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