Image credit: Brandwatch Like many UK consumer I have been dissuaded from purchasing goods, refreshments and services from the multi-national organisations implicated in the parliamentary investigation into corporate tax avoidance. As a small business operator I don’t understand how there is such a chasm between the rules governing a small coffee or book shop from… [Read More]
CIPR Webinars
I have known about the CIPR webinars but not had the time to fully explore them. I have been looking at an interesting presentation all about sentiment measurement with Andrew Smith (@andismit). In particular it takes a couple of online tools and works though how they work and present their results. Interestingly the 3 tools… [Read More]
Gmail uses
I have used Gmail as my main email client for quite a few years and always found it rather useful. Aside from the fact that it might start costing me money to use I have been exploring some of additional abilities not least its ability to provide a preview pane to the right or bottom… [Read More]
BT / Openreach ‘half job’
My understanding was BT/OR was introducing fibre to cabinet broadband to my town (Deal, Kent). This would make a massive difference to my work. Only last week I had to wait 2 hours for a client file to download. I also find that using tools like Brandwatch are somewhat ponderous with my current 1.5-2mb link…. [Read More]
I need saving from National Savings
I occasionally comment on matters outside the media and measurement and this is one of those occasions. Midway through last week I transferred some money from my bank current account to my Premium Bonds account. At the point of ‘transaction’ the computer hung on the page and eventually timed out. I called National Savings (NS&I)…. [Read More]