Just Another Social Profile Really

At the end of this month I’m moving house. Or, to be more precies, I’m moving from a house to a flat. For this reason, I have quite a bit of stuff that I need to get rid of and whilst I’d like to donate it all to Freecycle, I also need to buy new [...]

A while back I got an email from a company called canvasRus asking me if I would like a free canvas in exhance for writing about it. After recovering from the shock caused by the fact that anyone honestly cared what I thought, I politely declined: at the time I had no need of such [...]

One of the things that I have always loved about working in search, and its younger sibling social, is how friendly it is.
Whether it’s the way in which the crew at SEOmoz embraced me when I first started using the site; the way that Lisa started chatting to me in the queue for customs at [...]

Well, it’s official. I no longer work for Altogether or The Engine Group. In fact, for the next 11 days I guess that I’m officially unemployed. But a week on Monday I’ll be starting in a new role at the global media agency Mindshare.
I’ve had an amazing time at Altogether and am really quite conflicted [...]

So Jon (below, with me in the white shirt posse) & Lisa (above) are getting married in Italy today and I’m gutted that I can’t be there to celebrate with them (I have another wedding in Dorset tomorrow and for some reason Jon & Lisa, selfish buggers that they are, wouldn’t move theirs back by [...]

I am so bloody relieved I’m prepared to let my blog fall prey to the “they’re just websites for photos of cats” cliché.
Welcome home Domino.

 
Dixon Jones is a lovely man. 
Dixon Jones is a very funny man. 
Dixon Jones is a very generous man.
We all like Dixon Jones.
Thank you Dixon (and watch out for Jon, he’s behind you!)
  
Dixon photo by storyspinn on flickr & balti image by ayes.

On an almost daily basis I talk to people about the importance of openness and honesty in social media. Don’t blog unless you’re prepared to be open, I’ll say. Honesty is key when you’re operating in this space.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently as I’m currently  going through some incredibly major events in [...]