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Discussion Points

Turning The Tables

February 5, 2009
Discussion Points

It’s a well known fact that I have unbounded admiration for Seth Godin, what you probably don’t know is that I have spent the last few weeks and months becoming increasingly vitriolic in my tirades against the Numpties who preach doom, gloom and despondency in the various media – I am becoming the woman who [...]

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Social Media And The Importance Of Friends

January 9, 2009
Discussion Points

I have a plan for this year – it involves a major housekeep of all my sites (and there are an awful lot) which will end with many of them going by the wayside I suspect.  I’m also revamping my vanity site, which hadn’t been touched in donkeys ages and which was really quite shameful.  [...]

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Social Networks and Parental Responsibility

April 2, 2008
Discussion Points Rants!

I promised myself I would rant less – it’s not good for my blood pressure and, I am led to believe, scares the local cats and dogs.  I made this promise to myself yesterday – and now today I’m going to have to break it.  I heard something on the news this morning which almost [...]

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Think!

March 10, 2008
Discussion Points Rants! Reflections

Be aware that this post contains what my Gran would call ‘language’ and I have edited some of the emails quoted to protect the innocent (or should that be guilty) but the context and tone have not been changed in any way.
A friend sent me an email today with the heading “…………dismal……”  It contained a [...]

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The Death Of Common sense

March 5, 2008
Discussion Points Rants!

Life has been a bit hectic of late, and when that happens I find myself getting short tempered and even more grumpy that usual.  However sometimes it produces a more philosphical mood – or like today a combination of both.  I know it’s difficult to imagine but it happens.
I’m a great believer  that old fashioned [...]

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Watch Your Widgets

January 28, 2008
Discussion Points Online Marketing

The last few days have been very fraught in our household. My dearly beloved has been having ‘issues’ with his laptop. Now, I love him dearly and he is an intelligent man but what he knows about computers you could put on the head of a pin and still have room to do [...]

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Do you want to be mediocre?

January 9, 2008
Discussion Points Rants!

It will not stop me from writing and thinking the way I do to cater to a supposedly unintelligent, mass market composed of individuals that cannot make up their own minds. I can make up my own mind, how arrogant of me would it be to suppose that you are any different? It is time we took a stand against this rising tide of imposed ignorance.

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Are you Internet Addicted?

December 27, 2007
Discussion Points Online Marketing Reflections

I am sitting here at my desk on Christmas Eve – it’s round 5.30 p.m. here – writing this post to timestamp for sometime on the 27th. Then I will turn off my pc for a couple of days. I know none of my friends will believe I can actually not look at [...]

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Give us a break…and some heating……please!

December 20, 2007
Discussion Points Rants!

I am feeling sorry for myself today – this is not a normal situation for me, it is something I rarely indulge in. This state of affairs has been brought about by the fact that I have a chill, not a cough, or a cold but an old fashioned chill brought on by being [...]

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The EntreCard Meme

December 19, 2007
Discussion Points Online Marketing

The longer I have been a member of EntreCard the more I like it and not just because of the traffic, though that is good. The main reason I like it is the variety of blogs that I have come across – there are some truly splendid ones out there. Some [...]

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Imitation – The Sincerest Form of Flattery

December 16, 2007
Discussion Points Squidoo

At first I didn’t know quite what to make of it but I felt a bit miffed on behalf of The Squid Team and my fellow lensmasters. Still being the sort of person I am, I choose to reserve judgment on it for a while – we shall see what we shall see, as they say. But then it occurred to me….

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Is EntreCard Worth the Effort?

December 15, 2007
Discussion Points Online Marketing

I posted a few days ago about EntreCard, having just joined the site and being reasonably impressed with what I had found so far. Several of my colleagues also joined. There have been many comments about it on many blogs but I wanted to see for myself what the results were before I [...]

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Is vested interest a bad thing?

December 7, 2007
Discussion Points Reflections

There was a comment on yesterday’s post regarding vested interests, a perfectly legitimate and pleasant expression of opinion – but it got me thinking about what and why we do things and the different meanings we attribute to words. I said yesterday “One of the things I intend to do with this blog is [...]

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Giving Value

November 21, 2007
Discussion Points Online Marketing Squidoo

In The 7% Solution I think Seth summed up brilliantly what those of who work on the net need to do. Forget all those expensive marketing systems and shenanigans that the gurus try to sell you, they are worth diddly squat compared to the advice in that short post.

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Reflections on Manners and Being Taken For Granted

November 20, 2007
Discussion Points Rants!

It is not unusual for me to rant,  in fact when I really get going I’m told it can be quite entertaining – unless you are on the receiving end that is.  This, however is more in sadness than rage though that statement seems to invest the event with more importance than it is probably [...]

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