Online activity could help your brain

Social networks could boost your brain

As I write this the TV and online news sites are full of the death of Osama Bin Laden. With it are flash-backs to 11th September 2001 – some of which remind us of things we had forgotten. Whilst we can remember specific events like the collapse of the twin …

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Andrew Marr Reveals Gagging Order

Andrew Marr may get more out of today than he thinks

TV presenter Andrew Marr may well be reading the newspapers today with added interest. In case you missed it – he had an extra-marital affair and then went and got one of the controversial “super injunctions” to prevent people from publishing any information about it. The fact that the information …

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The Ocean Countess Cruise Ship

Social networks will boost empathy with your customers

I feel really sorry for Janet Richardson, the 73-year-old grandmother who was accidentally dropped into the ice-cold sea by paramedics as they tried to take her from her holiday cruise ship, the Ocean Countess, to hospital in Norway. I don’t know her and I’ve never been dropped into the sea …

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Pop-ups could make a come-back

Website pop-ups could make a come-back

Take a look at the room around you right now….go on, have a look, then come back to read the rest of this…..welcome back. What did you see? Did you see everything around you? All the usual things you normally see were there were they? You didn’t think anything looked …

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Donny Osmond to appear on UK Radio

You need to know the age of your website visitors

Donny Osmond is coming to Oldham; honestly, the 1970s teen heart-throb is to launch his career as a broadcaster working as a DJ for “Revolution”, the area’s local radio station. Of course, many of the people who will listen to his Saturday morning show will have no real idea of …

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Sunny weather online makes us feel good

Your online world is just like being there

Sunbathers were out in force in the UK this weekend as the schools finished for the Easter break and the sun shone brightly. The smell of newly mown grass filled the air and the slip-slap noise of sun-cream being applied could be heard up and down the country. Spring has …

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James Naughtiein the Daily Telegraph

Stop being business-like to boost credibility

The BBC presenter James Naughtie and his producer got into a bit of hot water again recently over a simple Tweet. A few weeks ago it was swearing online, now it is staying at a Japanese “love hotel”. Indeed, the Tweet caused such a fuss within the BBC that the …

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The Guardian Soulmates Relaunch did not please everyone

How not to relaunch your website

One in three people online have used an online dating service at some stage in their life. Indeed, a study a couple of years back showed that online dating is much more successful in finding a partner than traditional forms of dating, such as meeting people in a bar. It …

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