How To Have Great Ideas: The 4 ‘Rooms’ of Inspiration
Thanks to my business partner Chris, who basically insisted I read it, I’ve just finished ‘A Book About Innocent’, a frank and very readable account of how three guys started (and very nearly finished) Innocent Drinks, going from a van selling 24 smoothies at...
Independent voices of 2011: Most influential non-celebrities on Twitter
The Independent listed their ‘voices of 2011’ today, highlighting the non-celebrities on Twitter who are 'setting the news agenda’. Pretty stoked to learn that I’m included in the Technology list. Being listed alongside the other eight in that list is an honour indeed :)
Read:...
Change: A World In Flux – My #CogsTalks @ The Hospital
Here’s the presentation I gave this week at The Hospital in London, showing my take on how the digital world is changing and why this constant change shouldn’t scare us but rather is an endless source of opportunity.
Here’s the presentation I gave and below...
How To Create a ‘Welcome’ Landing Tab for New Facebook Pages
On 10th March 2011 Facebook will upgrade all pages for brands, companies and organisations to a new version of Pages, bringing the design in line with personal profiles which were upgraded in December 2010.
‘Static FBML’ tabs, with which you could quickly add extra tabs...
Facebook Pages Upgrade – What You Need To Know
The old, and new Facebook pages at a glance
On 10th March all Facebook Pages - i.e. pages which are not for personal accounts but for brands, businesses and organizations - will be upgraded to a new style consistent with personal profiles, with a picture...
HOW TO: Customise New Facebook Profiles (With Free PSD)
There have been some amazingly creative uses of Facebook’s new profile layout recently:
You can see more cool examples here and here. There are two ways to do this, depending on whether you have Photoshop or not…
WITH PHOTOSHOP
STEP 1: Download this Photoshop PSD file:
STEP 2: Drag a...
My Latest Posts For Brand Republic’s Social Media Blog
In a bid to spread my blogging far and wide across the internet like a thick but rich pollutant I’ve become a contributor for Brand Republic’s ‘The Wall’ blog which covers the latest developments in social media, marketing and technology.
Here are my first posts....
My Week Offline
I’m back online after a whole week off work and without any tweets, blog posts, photo uploads or much action between me and the internet at all.
If you’re curious to know what it’s like to live without Facebook, Twitter, iPlayer, Digg or whatever it...
How To Add Facebook ‘Like’ Button To Your Blog or Tumblr – UPDATED
Updated in May 2012
There doesn't seem to be a simple step-by-step guide on the web so I’m writing this, particularly for Tumblr users but it will apply to other platforms too…
STEP 1:
Copy this code:
<meta property="og:title" content="{block:PostTitle}{PostTitle}{/block:PostTitle}"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="{Title}"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="{PortraitURL-128}"/>
STEP 2:
Go to tumblr.com/customize and click...
