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An elected mayor for Bristol?

02 March 2011
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Jaya Chakrabarti has been encouraging me to come out with my support for the campaign for an elected major for Bristol for a while, so here goes . . .

Like many regional cities, Bristol has come a long way since the 80s when I was a student here.  It’s not just all the development around the harbour and Queen’s Square though, but generally t

Taking the pulse of the UK publishing industry at Media Briefing’s Paywall Strategies conference

28 February 2011
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My thoughts after a fascinating day last Thursday at Media Briefing's conference on paywall strategies.

Last Thursday, I attended the first conference from Rory Brown and Neil Thackray’s new business Media Briefing on paywall strate

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What place CSR in the new age of corporate austerity

31 January 2011
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This month we learned that the forestry project in northern Malawi for local Bristol charity Temwa that was planted with the funds from Sift Media’s Software Satisfaction Awards in 2010 and 2009 has contributed to the planting of 16,720 trees in the Nkhata Bay North region.

This month we learned that the forestry project in northern Malawi for local Bristol charity Temwa that was planted with the funds from

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    • Digital marketing for accountants

    06 December 2010
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    Last month I gave a talk on digital marketing at the CharterGroup annual conference, which I thought I’d reprise for a blog post.

    Last month I gave a talk on digital marketing at the CharterGroup annual conference, which I thought I’d reprise for a blog post.

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    HR Zone is 10 years old

    20 October 2010
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    HR Zone turns 10 this month and I thought I’d look back over its first decade to tease out some learnings from running a business community over an extended period.

    HR Zone turns 10 this month and I thought I’d look back over its first decade to tease out some learnings from running a business community ove

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    The route to Open Source – case study of a $1m failed development project!

    14 September 2010
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    Open source software has worked well for Sift now since late 2007. Getting there wasn’t easy though. Along the way, we had separate failed .NET and Java development projects. This case study focuses on the key learnings from the first of these adventures.

    There are some stories you can only tell after the event – to protect the living, so to speak.  This case study is part 1 of Sift’s route to open source.

    The BBC – cut the umbilical cord

    16 August 2010
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    Debate about the BBC has been bubbling up recently, with the culture secretary calling for clearer red lines around the BBC website; and then the Adam Smith Institute publishing a report entitled 'Player or Subsidy Junkie? Decision time for the BBC'. Perhaps someone should cut the umbilical cord?

    Debate about the BBC has been bubbling up recently.

    Putting your arms around the industry

    28 July 2010
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    As more B2B magazines close, and the competitive landscape becomes increasingly digital, which will be the prevailing business mode - controlled circulation or subscription?

    At the AOP judging day in May, I was on the same table as Nic Howell the Deputy Editor of New Media Age.  At one point, Nic made the point that every B2B publisher needed to have a paid-for st

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    Teamwork, loss and a perfect funeral

    25 July 2010
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    Everyone says that blogging should be personal and that once you start, you need to continue. So I can’t avoid the fact that I haven’t posted anything for three weeks. The reason is that my Mum was taken into hospital after a fall on the 2nd of July and died three days later of a heart attack.

    Everyone says that blogging should be personal and that once you start, you need to continue.  So I can’t avoid the fact that I haven’t posted anything for three weeks.  The reason is tha

    Personnel Today goes ‘online-only’

    28 June 2010
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    Launched 21 years ago, today sees the last issue of Reed Business Information’s Personnel Today magazine.

    Launched 21 years ago, today sees the last issue of Reed Business Information’s Personnel Today magazine.  The Tags:

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