No CommentI’ve always wanted to start up a school based on the teachings that I have learnt from life. I feel the lessons taught in Music, Television, Film & Sport probably helped me more than any teacher from school and furthered my career than my degree. I have tested these in 3 areas to help teach others so far:
As a trainer in social media I often use references from the 4
When I helped improve Borderline D/C students increase their grades (B/As) in English GCSE coursework (was littered with references).
Whenever I am …
I have been fortunate enough to train people in social media at a number of events over the last few years but none has got me as excited as Made in 48 Hours. The event was the idea of Ex-Dragon’s Den “Dragon”, Doug Richards and the concept is taking 300 small businesses and within 48 hours training them up to have a web presence that a large brand would be envious of AND knowing what to do after the 48 hours has finished. It will be intense and …
The Dark Knight was one of my favourite films of last year. In fact, it was one of my favourite films in the last 5 years. Not only was the storyline excellent, but some of the scenes and script I thought was amazing & I personally took a lot from it. All the characters were great, but Heath Ledger as the Joker (RIP), was exceptional. (Almost as good as Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects…..almost).
You will probably read a lot of quotes from the Joker …
Hi everyone
I have been very slack on the blog posting recently but I can assure you that I will be blogging regulary again from…..NOW .
There has been a good reason though and that is because I have been working on my school project. For those who do not know I created and now have implemented the 1st social media course in UK schools, which was linked to GCSE English.
The results were amazing and have seen children get B’s and A’s in some of their coursework. See, social media is …
Underneath is what I mentioned above. Big thanks to Nic Howell and NMA for the support.
When I first started working for MySpace in 2006, I could understand why people were saying that social media was a fad and had no intellectual merit as there were only a couple of major players in the game. Three short years later we have some of the biggest websites in the world in the social media camp and
I have worked in music and online for over 10 years now and I used to think that it was just this industry where it was not based on talent alone to break in. However over the years I realised it’s every industry. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
One of the reasons social networks have become so powerful is because people are becoming famous overnight. Unless you were already a celeb, the 1 thing in common people who became famous all had were powerful communities ie, …
We did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have finally managed to get the english school system to see the importance of Social Media and let us teach in schools.
The Daily Telegraph were the 1st to do a write up on it. Check it out
1st Social Media GCSE lesson in schools
The 5th and final secret to having an active community on any social network is… to not be an idiot. I am not going to spend long on this as it is pretty self-explanatory.
If you take away one thing from this post please remember this….the Internet is and will be the largest archive ever. From text, to music, to videos, if it has been put online then it will be archived mainly due to everything having its own unique URL.
Now I am not saying to be overly cautious but remember …
The 4th secret to having an active community on any social network is…Make people talk about you.
One of my Virtual Marketing Consultants “Seth Godin” coined a phrase called “Be Remarkable“, which means to do something that somebody will make a remark about. If you think about it, most things on the Internet that you know are because somebody was making some type of remark about it. Ie, people were talking about this new site called Facebook to each other or sending the link round about this crazy kid losing his …
We have all been there on the other side of the desk with the ‘careers expert’ who has been fully trained to say no! Or send you to the armed forces, local supermarket or a ‘great’ admin job! Not saying there is anything wrong with doing these jobs if that’s what you truely want to do, but that’s the key what do you really want to do?
The only way to get a head start is to do your own work experience, make your own contacts and learn everything you can from people. …
In '08 I started suffering from Repetitive Stress Injury & it changed my life drastically. I lost everything. However, after I had my pity party I realised I could do something about it and take back control. This blog is for anyone who has had a challenge in their life and wants tips and inspiration about overcoming it.
