Just read an interesting article by Gabriella Griffith on the London Loves Business website:

From sweatworking to sorting out your LinkedIn page - networking is an essential element in your career progression

Peddling furiously on his…

I've posted links to the blog of my long-time contact Gerry McGovern, widely recognised as a world authority on how customers use websites, and what they are really looking for when they reach your site.

His latest post hits the spot (as usual!) and chimes perfectly with what I tell my clients when they are asking me to revamp and 'sex-up' their sites.  There are common misconceptions that web surfers go…

Surrey superfast broadband deal gets the green light

10:09am Tuesday 27th November 2012 in Redhill & Horley Life

 Plans to roll out superfast broadband to virtually every home and business in Surrey have been given the go-ahead.

The European Union (EU) has…

Here at NiS we believe in face-to-face networking - and we're not alone! Read the original article (and more on this subject)  here on Business…

I just received an email newsletter from Networking in Berkshire Member John Cassidy, Photographer, and I couldn't agree more with the excellent point he makes... in fact, it matches a blog post I made on NiS two and a half years ago! (check it out here)

Here's John's piece:

First Impressions Count…

I met Gerry McGovern a few years ago while working on government websites for the Inland Revenue (as it was then called - stop boo-ing at the back please! :0) and for Business Link. 

He's a genial Irish genius, blogging about the total online experience in general, and specialising in helping large organisations all around the world (particularly in the public sector) to create and manage large-scale web projects.

Gerry's blog is one of the few that I follow, and one of the…

LinkedIn is taking a page out of Facebook's, er... book!

Facebook's just fun for kids and socialising, right? Serious businesses use LinkedIn - the…

I've added a great video to the site here, with links to four more, which together provide a fascinating analysis explaining the European and global economic crisis  in laymans terms - well worth a look!

I'm grateful to Robert Craven (of Directors' Club fame) for drawing my attention to…

Business Link the organisation was wound up last November with the demise of the RDAs around the UK.  Now the national businesslink.gov.uk website is to be amalgamated with Directgov into a new web presence called GOV.UK.

I have a certain nostalgia for the site having been involved in writing some of the content a few years ago, but that's progress for you!

Here's some…

BT and Surrey County Council have struck up a deal worth £33 million that will provide the whole county with superfast broadband.

As a direct result, Surrey's economy could also be boosted by as much as £28 million per annum, according to World Bank research. 

While Ofcom's 2012 broadband performance report identifies 9Mbps as the UK's average broadband rate, the high-speed network to be…

Exciting times! Two more gold medals Team GB this afternoon in the dressage and the boxing (not that I'm glued to the box watching the Olympics you understand :0) I promise I was out networking this morning, although my voice is a bit hoarse from shouting at the telly!

Shock news of the week in Networkland for me was the announcement that Ecademy…

Well, I loved it... that wacky Games Opening Ceremony, complete with clips from 1960s black & white sitcoms, Mr Bean in Chariots of Fire, the ‘Baked Bean’ parachuting in with James Bond, and a good old singalong finale around the piano with Macca and Hey Jude... and millions around the globe scratching their heads and asking, ‘What’s all that about then?’ A triumph, in true British style - if you can’t beat…

Hi NiS Members!

Can you please spare a few minutes to do a survey to help out Len Goss and the University of Surrey?  Many of yo uwill know Len from his time as a Director at Surrey Chambers and from networking meetings over the years - most recently at Foxhills.  Here is Len's plea:

Dear fellow NiS Members

I could do with a favour from you - please!!

I’m working on a research…

BYFLEET ROAD CLOSED FOR 2 WEEKS

If you thought the Olympic Cycling might make traffic in Weybridge and Cobham a bit sticky, you ain't seen nuthin' yet! Thanks go to NiS Member Karen Sutton and to Sony UK for passing on the following info:

Please find…

Listen to this 15-minute free mini-webinar in which Keith Grover interviews  NiS+ Member Jo McHale of Talking Truly - click here to learn how to improve your personal communications skills in business…

Since 2009 we have been able to share our professional conversations on LinkedIn and Twitter - so what we posted on one, would appear on both platforms.



Now Twitter has changed its strategy on the way our Tweets appear in…

Here's a salutory tale about the super smart networker I came across last week, as my long-suffering partner Angela and I were on our way to our current favourite Greek island of Skopelos (where they filmed Mamma Mia).

We were in transit on Skiathos, where the plane lands, with a couple of hours to kill before catching the Skopelos Ferry. So, we settled outside a…

World's first 'professor of networking'

Whether you're sports mad or all this athletic 'kerfuffle' is driving you crazy, you may like to check out what's happening when, on the Official 2012 site where you'll find this schedule

http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/

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