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As I recently commented on Twitter, the Google Creative lab crew recently posted a shared slideshow showcasing
87 cool things that, from their perspective, was stuff ‘worth knowing about’. (more…)

Argos. Clearly doing well as the UK’s most popular ‘catalogue showroom retailing’ store in the UK. More than 700 stores, 130m customers and £4.3b in sales in 2008 isn’t bad. They also take 26% of their sales online, aided by an Argos catalogue found in 18m households across the country. Not bad for a chain who relies on a strictly ’self-serve’ philosophy that doubles as a business model… but they could do it so much better. (more…)

This is the first article in a series of three articles on The Future of Digital Marketing.

Having attended e-consultancy’s event on the ‘Future of Digital Marketing’ in June, if I’m being honest, it was the first time I’ve felt excited about digital marketing for a long time. Way back in February I attended the dire DMA show in Las Vegas, and subsequently wrote up a diatribe on why it and the industry as a whole seemed to be lacking in innovation. Thankfully, e-consultancy’s choice of speakers for their event seems to have gotten me back on the right track. This is part 1 of a 3 part series on the future of digital marketing and a recap of the event. (more…)

Walked in at 8:30 am to find my desk as one massive present. This is the stuff of legend and lore.

The Curriculum Vitae. That all-important sheet or more of paper that represents your first ever point of contact with a potential employer. Your CV is an extension of your professional self and comprehensively consolidates and highlights your professional talents and accomplishments, as well as your skills, education, previous roles and abilities. But in today’s internet-powered marketplace, isn’t an 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper just ‘Employment 1.0’?

Why submit a static, physical document when it doesn’t even include numerous glowing referrals of your past or present work?
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Lifestreaming. It can be defined as ‘an automated, effective way to centralize one’s various web activities into a single, unified website or stream’ and it can take various forms. Some people use services like FriendFeed or Tumblr, whilst others opt to make their own. Whichever way you choose to aggregate your activities, the fact remains that a platform is becoming very necessary to pull them all together.
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Freelance Folder have just posted a fantastic list of more than 35 of the best social media tools that are sure to help make your life easier. From juggling multiple social networking profiles to digging up your old high school friends, this list has ‘em all.

View the full post at: http://freelancefolder.com/35-social-media-tools-make-life-easier/ or keep reading for the quick n’ dirty version.
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UPDATE: No, I didn’t win. But, being shortlisted out of 3 nominees for the whole South of England is fine by me. Not bad considering I’ve been in Brighton for only 1.6 years!

The award night was great, you can see my pics on Flickr, or my videos on YouTube of the actual awards ceremony. Kudos to Plugin Media for their great application of glowsticks, and my congratulations to the eventual Farm Freelancer of the Year award winner, Bevan Stephens. See Bevan’s winning site here.

Ecstatic is an understatement!

I’ve just been confirmed as a shortlisted candidate for the Digital Media Awards: South ‘Freelancer of the year award‘, with the actual award ceremony (and judging) to take place here in Brighton on November 27th.
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After a busy month in October, here are the top 10 most popular articles from CarbonGraffiti.com.
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Last week I returned from the DMA show in Las Vegas (been busy!), which I attended on request from my boss as an opportunity to learn/adapt new technologies and ideas to be implemented back in the UK.
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