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Recent Blogs

The 5 Ferry Challenge - Part 2

'5 Ferries' The highs and lows of a charity cycle! (FERRY 3)   Onto the 3rd ferry nearly half way now!   Tarbert to Portavadie,  and then onto the Cowal peninsula.  It was at this ferry stage your author noticed his recovery including the recent ...

The 5 Ferry Challenge

'5 Ferries' The highs and lows of a charity cycle! (FERRY 1)On Saturday the 20th of August 9 volunteers arrived at the Ferry Terminal at Ardrossan.     The bikes were put in the hold of the ferry and the calm of the Clyde was mirrored by the calm...

7 Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing

7 Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Source: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/ or click the logo above for the story in full   First of all is ignorance–Where no one knows, or even cares, if there are cloud services present in the business. Second...

The Immanent dominance of social networking in businesses

CIO.co.uk has produced a superb argument for why we should take social media seriously in the business environment. This is on the back of Gartner predicting that by 2014, social networking services will be displacing email as the primary method ...

Green Marketing

We're all for marketing that's 'Green' - what is the gap between consumer beliefs and marketers' presumptions? The Marketing Industry Network offers a library of White Papers and research. Gyro International submitted a paper about the curren...

Ofcom to cut landline-to-mobile call charges

UK comms regulator Ofcom today published plans to make calls to mobile devices from standard landline phones cheaper. The regulator hopes that by forcing carriers to cut their mobile termination rates (MTRs) – the fees operators charge to conn...

'Quick Guides to Scary Internet Stuff'

Here are some education videos from Symantec regarding scary internet stuff!

5 Basic Green Tips!

Easy notepads: If your office uses a lot of paper, before recycling build a stack of about 50 sheets, then cut into quarters leaving 4 smaller stacks of paper. Attach a bulldog clip to the top, and you have your own eco-friendly notepad, sketc...

Social Media and Scottish Enterprise- Put the 'me' into SME

With the world now handing itself over to the ever popular social media craze 'what's in it for me?' is becoming a more and more popular question with company directors.So can social media put the 'me' into SME and allow companies to remove th...

Email Marketing- Effectiveness!

Email marketing... ...may now be de rigueur but there are still lessons to learn about measurement and effectiveness, finds the latest DMA survey Good news: seven out of ten marketers are expecting more budgets to flow into email marketing over th...