HiBROW is live!

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I'm very excited and proud to announce that HiBROW - the company for which I am Chief Operating Officer - is live today.  It's been a fabulous ride for the past year, bringing Don Boyd's vision into reality, and I'm thrilled with the quality of what we've created.  HiBROW is all original and new filmed ...

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Welcome to 2012

I've had a fantastic time in Singapore and Australia over the Christmas-New Year period but am now back to work in London.  I have a lot of news I can't share just yet but stay tuned... the next 6 weeks are very exciting times all round.

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Online Information Conference seminar

Thanks to all who came to my session at the Online Information Conference and Exhibition this morning, when I presented on social media for business process improvement. The slides are available for download to all who would like a copy.

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National Freelancers’ Day

National Freelancers

On this day, designed to be a celebration of the contribution of freelancers to the UK economy, I'd like to share my own perspective of the life of a freelancer. As is my wont, I am going to be blunt. There are enough commentators out there who laud the freelance life for its flexibility, its creative ...

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FT Innovate Liveblog

I'm at the FT Innovate 2011 Conference at the Andaz hotel here in Liverpool Street, London, and we are starting shortly with a keynote from Martha Lane Fox.  I'll be liveblogging various segments during the day and am happy to pose questions on your behalf so please tweet me @joannejacobs, or comment here and I'll ...

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My News Day events in Sweden, October 2011

Joanne at My News Day

I seem to have spent most of the last few weeks away.  But I have been working most of the time.  I recently presented at the My News Day events for the company My News Desk in Sweden - three days of events in three cities - a great achievement for the firm, and fabulously ...

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Ada Lovelace Day Post

I have been lax in getting involved properly with Ada Lovelace Day today, partly because there is so much else going on at the moment too, but I want to focus my attention for this year's tribute to women in tech on a perhaps little known techie educator (though still a TED alumnus), AnnMarie Thomas. ...

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Update and new ideas on influence

Lomographized eye from Flickr User, Jen

Once again, I've been flat out in recent weeks preparing for the imminent launch of HiBROW, the arts experiences site and company for which I am Chief Operating Officer, as well as preparing presentations and fulfilling client contracts.  I'll be away next week in Sweden for the MyNewsDesk events across three cities, and after that ...

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Riga Conference – Social media impact on political regimes

Riga Conference

For those who missed my panel at the Riga Conference, you can catch the video of the full panel online.  Social media has a strong impact on cybersecurity.  In this video I and my fellow panelists explore how social will continue to have an impact on political activity and how security of entire nation states is affected ...

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Riga Conference: Russian modernisation

We're back after a caffeine break for the late morning session on Russian modernization: Is society ready and will it bring Russia closer to the West? On the panel are: Mr. Andris Teikmanis, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Prof. Dr. Horst Teltschik, former Foreign Policy Adviser to the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Dr. James Sherr, ...

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