What’s the value of improving your presentation skills? Anyone in an agency environment would know that winning business is tougher than ever – you’ve got to do so much more to win a pitch than, say, ten years ago. Presentation skills are key to success.
At Citigate we’ve just started hosting presentation training workshops and I [...]

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So, this afternoon Bernie Mitchell, the man behind the Late Late Breakfast Show monthly meetup in London emails me and asks me to do a minute’s presentation that evening about what we’re doing at Social Media Week. Sure, no problem, I say.
Despite one of the cardinal sins of presenting being not preparing properly, I write [...]

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About this time last year I wrote a post about Quora, suggesting that it could be 2011′s success story. It turned out I was wrong. So, I’m going to be a bit more careful when bigging up Empire Avenue, a social network that mimics a stock market to bring together and gamify your whole social [...]

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Who owns a Twitter username? How to avoid a Twitter account lawsuit

December 28, 2011

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How much is a Twitter follower worth? $2.50 per month, apparently – well, depending on the outcome of a lawsuit in the States where a company called PhoneDog is suing one of its ex-workers for taking his 17,000 followers with him when he left the company.
According to the Guardian, Noah Kravitz was tweeting under the [...]

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Is it ever a good idea to update your own Wikipedia page?

December 8, 2011

When I think of ‘dark arts’, I’m reminded more of Voldemort than PR agencies, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of people criticising Bell Pottinger for allegedly manipulating Wikipedia pages for its clients.  The full story can be read on the Independent’s website and other outlets.

Although criticised by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, it’s unclear at [...]

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Tancredi, a book from the Ministry of Surreal

November 29, 2011

A little while ago I signed up to a Peer Index perk to receive a book entitled Tancredi by a chap called James Palumbo, better known as the founder of Ministry of Sound. It also came with a set of Ministry of Sound headphones, which can’t be sniffed at. Peer Index’s competitor, Klout, has been providing perks for its [...]

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