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Big AL - who has written 133 posts on Online Business Development.

I am a multi skilled online project manager who is passionate about digital marketing, social media and web 2.0. With such project highlights as the web development for the award winning Urban Planters the VCA, Jeep Privileges, and Sportsman Gun Centre to name but a few.

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James Barisic, Jackie Dawkins and Alistair Gleave.

29 May 2010

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Welcome back, i've missed you did you know that you can subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! James Barisic, Jackie Dawkins and Alistair Gleave., originally uploaded by alistair gleave. Introduction to the Use of Social Media in the Charity Sector. Organized by Jackie Dawkins, Director of Shine Charity Recruitment at Everys Solicitors in Exeter with Alistair [...]

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Social Media Charity Seminar in Exeter #charityseminar

28 May 2010

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Another successful charity was held last night with some great Charities there for our introduction to Social Media aimed specificaly at the Charity sector. I won’t go over what we cover as this can be seen in the blog posts about the previous seminars, i would just mention the depth of attendees from the charity sector [...]

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Twitter followers – what makes a good follow?

26 May 2010

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Lets be quite clear I love Twitter, the ease of use simplicity and ablity to communicate across platforms instantly makes it a winner as far as i am concerned, BUT i still have clients who question its use and reason for being. One of the main questions of concern i get is following people, who should [...]

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Website 360 images and Virtual Tours

19 May 2010

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Virtual Reality photography (VR) is a superb way of placing people into an environment and allows them to interact with it. This type of imagery goes one more than the saying that photography speaks a thousand words as this type of image speaks millions. VR images can be grouped together into Virtual Tours providing [...]

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Man Flu

14 May 2010

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So get this your male and you have a head cold, it means you have Man Flu. This for me is higlighted so well in this youtube video taken from the BBC Comedy series ‘Man Stroke Woman’ and this surely will make you smile? Technorati Tags: thoughts

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Finding your next eBay mispelling bargain

10 May 2010

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So you can search and find things you want on eBay, it’s easy isn’t it? When you have found them you then pay using PayPal or other such payment method. Simple wait a few days and hey presto your item arrives just as expected…. Time now to let you into a secret, people can’t spell, [...]

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Exeter Election Results 2010

7 May 2010

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Well after all the campaigning, TV debates and mountain of leaflets the day has arrived the votes counted and verified and the next MP for Exeter is Ben Bradshaw. The results are as follows; Labour - Ben Bradshaw – 19,942 votes Conservative - Hannah Foster – 17,221 votes Liberal Democrat – Graham Oakes – 10,581 votes Green Party – Paula [...]

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UK Media and the change with new media vs old media and the UKElection

29 April 2010

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It has been great to watch look and listen to all the comings and goings of the election here in the UK in particular those comments from Old Media – about how they and they alone have transformed the election into some kind of online battle. To be honest I am not so [...]

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Charity Seminar Review @MattYoungDJ

27 April 2010

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I recently presented at the Introduction to Social Media for Charities Seminar in Exeter and feedback from this has been amazing, I went so far as to take my Flip Ultra High Definitionto get some reviews for you to see. Matt Young DJ representing Have a Heart in Exeter left a great review and this is [...]

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An Introduction to Social Media in the Charity Sector in Exeter

23 April 2010

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I spoke at an awesome seminar called an Introduction to Social Media aimed for Charities in Exeter on Thursday part of a series we have been running (last one held in November 09 – next in May) introducing Social Media to the Charity sector; this again was held at Everys Solicitors in Exeter. The seminar gave [...]

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