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Are you being a follower for the heck of it or are you following quality?

When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]

[ More ] July 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Will you get paid to be a friend?

In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]

[ More ] July 23rd, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Endorsements and recommendations are they worth it? Does that make you the person you are?

Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]

[ More ] July 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

What happens to your online identity after you die?

I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]

[ More ] July 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Getting screwed around in business is not something you want but it happens. Now what?

Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]

[ More ] July 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Do you have the guts to do business like a prostitute

The other day my friend and I were walking down Queen street, Auckland. I was a bit tired and my mind was occupied on how to help a client get their social media campaigns sorted. This was particularly a tough campaign as it was targeted towards the food industry with many key players within the [...]

[ More ] July 16th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

As a start-up would you prefer crowd funding or the traditional funding models

Crowd funding is based on the concept that individuals can now invest in start-ups. According to the web definition from Wikipedia. Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing or crowd sourced capital), inspired by crowd sourcing, describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via the Internet, [...]

[ More ] June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Will social networks be important in the politics of the future?

With social networks being a part of our everyday lives, it’s going to be interesting to see whether politicians and government will take an active role with the online world in policy making. We have read and heard that in countries where politics is a matter of life and death, social networks have played a [...]

[ More ] June 23rd, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Will Google expand its Drug Info Search Results to the rest of the world?

Isn’t it annoying when we search for a specific symptom you see everyone on the Internet giving their own interpretations. You can get feedback right from a teenager to a mom telling you what that symptom could be. That can be nerve wrecking at times. Google on the other hand has now come up with [...]

[ More ] June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

How to sell your offerings with Social Media the Old Fashioned way

Picture the scene in the 1950’s where selling was an art, it had to be seductive in some shape of form where the sales person guy / girl had to have a persona effect. Though the presentation material had an impact it was the whole package where personality was key to closing the deal. Fast [...]

[ More ] June 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News |