Ok so I am still absorbing Friday and what took place. Personality profiling in the workplace. Being a true ENTP I am going to kick this one off and chip in where I feel the need. Basically we went to the countryside to an amazing wee pub with a great backroom (ooh er) the kind with a nice big table and china in a ye olde sideboard thing and a REAL fire. Hazel our therapist/organiser? Not sure of the terminology, arschlosch to titles. This talented individual known the NM peeps showed us some stuff about ourselves. I am overwhelmed. I shall end there for now. Sushi seems more appealing than writing blogs just now.
Joshua wrote this on 29.03.08 – 12 comments
It's filed in the NixonMcInnes box
Continuing on from my last post about Amazon Web Services, I shall now introduce you to the lesser known services they provide.
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Edward wrote this on 27.03.08 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Development, Internet, Web technology box
In case you’ve been living on Mars, or if you’re a ‘normal’ person who doesn’t live and breathe social media, here’s a quick, simple and fun introduction to Twitter – one of our favourite web applications.
Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
[Hat tip: Drew B, our pal from social media savvy PR dudes, Hotwire]
Tom wrote this on 24.03.08 – 7 comments
It's filed in the Social media box
At Barcamp Brighton 2 last weekend I hosted a discussion group around the future of social networks. Some interesting themes came up around decentralised/portable networks. I gave the group this statement to discuss: “In the future, users will have just one profile page for all of their social networks”. This is a central idea behind portable social networks: Users have their own domain name which hosts their personal profile, and this is used for all of their social networks (so no more having to enter all of your personal details and uploading a photo each time you join a new service.)
Someone (I think it was Aral) said that many of us like to maintain multiple identies online: We have a different persona whether we’re hanging out on myspace, LinkedIn, Facebook or Dopplr, so although having a single profile would be convenient, it’s doesn’t necessarily reflect how we want to express outselves.
My personal experience is that my online personas are starting to merge into one: I have a more relaxed, informal profile in business-related contexts, and my Facebook profile avoids anything too outrageous. I don’t know about you, but I obsessively de-tag myself from the ‘messier’ pictures from nights out with friends.
So, is there a risk that our online identities will become a watered-down, lowest common denominator of the various sides of our personalities and lives? A persona that you don’t mind your boss, your mother or your best mate seeing? Or will we find ways to express all of the different sides of ourselves? Let me know what you think.
By the way, if you were at the discussion, ping me on Twitter, it would be cool to stay in touch.
Tom wrote this on 20.03.08 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Events & conferences, Social media, Social networks box
I stumbled across this article from the Management Issues website which discusses a report from the consultancy Watson Wyatt, which argues that employers are missing a trick by trying to clamp down on the use of social media in the workplace. Michael Rudnick, global intranet and portal leader at Watson Wyatt who writes the report, suggests
“..employers that avoid social media altogether are missing an important opportunity and running the risk of alienating Generation X-ers and Millennials. Embracing the technology with proper planning, guidelines and change management for its use are effective approaches to ensuring success”
Instead of restricting Generation X employees from using tools they are familiar with, engaged in and enjoy using, it discusses how social media can be used to fulfil the important internal communication objective of engaging employees.
The article touches upon ways that employers can use social media to communicate information & memos to employees, and also encouraging them to participate in company-wide discussion through the use of blogs, blog feedback, wikis, podcasts and so on.
Great idea. Read more…
Anna wrote this on 19.03.08 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Business, Employee engagement, Social media, Strategy box
Note from the author: apologies if this post sounds like a Microsoft marketing campaign, but I am really excited about this technology!
Let’s say you have a website and you want to give your visitors the experience edge.
The media experience can be improved by using Microsoft Silverlight on your website. Some of the features include:
- Vector graphics with light, degrade and other effects
- Overlaying your HTML with Silverlight content
- React to keyboard input
- Video overlay
- Real-time data
- AJAX
Some impressive examples can be found on the Silverlight website. Here’s a few from the top of my head:
- Single coloured backgrounds? Forget about them! Create amazing forms, patterns, shades and colour rich backgrounds
- Animation effects, including menu transition, drag and drop, zoom, pop-ups, animated drop down, 3D wheel and “page turning”
- Better user experience patterns
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Telmo wrote this on 18.03.08 – 36 comments
It's filed in the Design, Development, Marketing, User experience box
Here’s a helpful diagram that lays out the things you can do with a business blog.
Any other ideas?
[source: Better Business Blogging - a great blog itself, check it out]
Tom wrote this on – 2 comments
It's filed in the Blogging box
Recently I was on a train to Brighton, a bit bored and without juice in my laptop so I decided to go online via my mobile phone to check out the social media marketing goodness flowing from the NM towers blog.
I became increasingly frustrated by the tiny text and slow loading times. I thought that it would be a good time to release the mobile version of the site at: m.nixonmcinnes.co.uk! Read more…
Patrick Mays wrote this on 11.03.08 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Marketing, NixonMcInnes, RSS, Social media box
I live in Brighton and NixonMcInnes is based close to the Brighton Pier.
Each and everyday I take a wander along the seafront and today was by no means an exception.
Even though a storm appeared to be in full swing, the rain and the wind didn’t put me off in the slightest. Gusts of wind pushed me back but I kept on walking toward the seafront and when I got there, an amazing spectacle of nature was taking place: massive waves were breaking below the Brighton Pier. Read more…
Telmo wrote this on 10.03.08 – 4 comments
It's filed in the Interesting, Social media, Social networks box
Good question; deserves big answer. Read more…
Ruth wrote this on 05.03.08 – 8 comments
It's filed in the Internet, Marketing, NixonMcInnes, Off topic, Social media, Social networks box
