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Chris Gilbey OAM If you have come here, you presumably want to find out a bit about me. If you want to get the corporate bio and CV, go to my LinkedIn profile. If you want to read some of the things that I think about from time to time, you can read the Perceptric [...]

My Linked In Changes…

By Chris Gilbey

Apparently 2010 was a year of change… I just got an email from LinkedIn to advise that 96 of my connections changed jobs during the last year. I just checked to find out how many connections I have in this network – 638. So that means that 15% of my contacts changed jobs, which happens [...]

Facebook the New Global Statesman.

By Tom Koltai

The Lack of interpersonal politics on Facebook appears to inspire peace and harmony.   It would appear that Facebook are achieving what all the great statesmen have been unable to achieve. That is, creating a Global level playing field whilst at the same time apparently removing distrust and promoting “joy de verve”.   Farmville, the [...]

The Tail (Zynga) is Wagging the Dog – Facebook……

By Tom Koltai

I guess the new star of the Internet, Zynga has started looking for M&A’s.   Not that they want to be taken out yet.   Fig 1.    Farmville User Numbers daily growth through August. – Source – Facebook. User numbers were doubling every two weeks – although have slowed recently mainly due to transaction (caps) [...]

How to build blog influence and recognition

By Richard McKinnon

Blogs are emerging as a fundamentally new media. Blogs can rise quickly, sink faster. To attract a wide audience you need a series of factors to come together. Linked In Bloggers is a forum which combines members of a business networking group (which so far has hadn't been at all useful to me) with members [...]

Convergence, Convergence

By Chris Gilbey

Yes its true. Convergence is upon us. Now I can have a phone that has on board an mp3 player, a camera, and a radio. And I can have an mp3 player that has my photo library on it and tells me the time in every time zone in the world, and I can have [...]

Business, Blogs and Networks

By Richard McKinnon

The variety and depth of information building in blogs is astounding. So too is the network effect these blogs are building.  Both the number of blogs and networks they create are increasing  exponentially. Example; a British guy, Denis Howlett writes a blog about accounting, innovation and change, AccManPro. Targeted niche. Useful topics for the right audience. He notes [...]