Leicestershire Twitter Elite List : How did aardmaan get to No 23

Posted by aardmaan | Wednesday 11 August 2010

Okay, I’ve only been tweeting six months (and three days). Thought I’d give it a go back in February. In fact, Pauline at LATI in Loughborough got me started. She was keen to give Twitter and LinkedIn a try. We’d thought we’d start out on the twitter journey together. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter Parade: cool tools on the web

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 3 August 2010

A bit of twitter fun from  IS Parade. See your twitter followers parading behind you - and their tweets in real time too. Read the rest of this entry »

93.3% Customer Focus Score: Beat That Meerkat

Posted by aardmaan | Thursday 15 April 2010

Love this tool. It measures your website’s customer focus rate. Called a “wewe” calculator. Not the best of names. However, the analysis results are truly insightful. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media: How do you measure its working?

Posted by aardmaan | Friday 5 March 2010

Is the internet is key to your business success? Do you depend on the internet to drive business? Serve customers? Win new business? Makes online sales? Today, that means getting to grips with a totally new online tool: social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Favourite tweets: useful things to know

Posted by aardmaan | Wednesday 24 February 2010

Here’s my top ten favourite twitter tweets for February. These are items I found interesting enough to tweet about - that may be interesting, useful and valuable to others. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter and social media: 82% jump in use

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 23 February 2010

After months of deliberating whether I should twitter or not - I’ve taken the plunge. Just over a week in - and the experience has been interesting. I’m following folk and miraculously have accumulated some followers too. However, the really useful aspect is instant access to information and views. Read the rest of this entry »

Dubai Marina: ten years on

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 2 February 2010

Ten years ago I worked on the Dubai Marina project. It was fantastic. Probably one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever worked on. I hadn’t visited Dubai in the intervening ten years - and was overwhelmed by the place when I stopped off there a couple of weeks ago. Dubai Marina - is no longer a scale model. It’s more than lifesize. However, is it the city we thought it would be?  Read the rest of this entry »

Quiet: writing other people’s blogs

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 2 February 2010

Hey - I know! I’ve gone quiet. Been writing blog posts and customer case studies and web content for other folk - and lost track of my own. Read the rest of this entry »

Marconi website frozen in 2001

Posted by aardmaan | Wednesday 11 November 2009

Have a look - quickly - before someone decides to cull this site or the domain name expires … a Marconi website that gives a history of the company and the man from 1886 to 2000 has become frozen in time … the clock abruptly stopped for this site in 2001… Read the rest of this entry »

Murdoch puts paid to free on Google

Posted by aardmaan | Monday 9 November 2009

Newspapers and content providers are getting tired of giving their content away for free it seems.  Rupert Murdoch’s response to free content clearly indicates the changing fortunes of the mass media - so ably predicted by the late great Michael Crichton over 16 years ago.

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