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My informal personal blog, once called “Hovering Over the Back Button”, now, as I post on Tuesday’s it’s “Tuesday 2¢”, if you want to follow it every week, I’ve created a LinkedIn newsletter too.


  • Consent as Currency

    I’m still figuring out marketing, but what I have learned is that consent is the big word, the holy grail, the thing we crave of our audience. In this blog post originally posted on Engaging Times I

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  • Blog Comments and Engagement

    Had a few interesting experiences with commenting on blogs recently that got me thinking about blog comments and its still pretty patchy how we are approaching it. They are the essential lifeblood of audience engagement,

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  • Engagement – the new CMS buzzword bus?

    Engagement – the new CMS buzzword bus?

    Suddenly, everyone in the content management world has jumped off the Web 2.0 buzzword bus and jumped on the one marked ‘Engagement’. What does this mean? Where are we really going? Folks seem to have

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  • Uncertain? Forrester says be bold and engage with your audience

    In a period of tightening budgets marketing leaders would seem to be at a crossroads, do they innovate and boldly engage with the audience to help shape their strategy or do they stick what they

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  • Engaging through Content or just Filing it?

    More thoughts on Vignette and OpenText. The news of OpenText planning to gobble up Vignette and the recent Interwoven acquisition by Autonomy sees a new chapter for these grandees of content management and I think

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  • OpenText to Buy Vignette

    Good grief, is it true, did I just type that? So it was Interwoven now it’s Vignette as the grandees of our industry slip into new ownership and possible away.   It’s really too early

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  • The Social Web – Be yourself… or find someone who is.

    The Social Web – Be yourself… or find someone who is.

    I recently read and commented on one of the many great blog posts out there that give advice on how companies approach the social web, in this article Kevin Gibbons lays down some basics –

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  • A Meme Challenge – 10 things about me

    Kas Thomas has been at it again, this time throwing down a personal meme gauntlet, by sharing 10 things about himself and tagging his blogroll to do the same, but I carelessly tweeted about it

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