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What's your evil plan? Hugh McLeod's new book focuses on why everyone needs one and there's never been a better time to stretch yourself to be the person you were born to be. Looking forward to it coming out Hugh... - Becky McMichael

Bookmarking this on "the thinking person's aggregation site". Charles and co take a look at the 100 most useful/popular/etc. website of the last 12 months. Warning...this article contains Twitter references that *may* offend some people. - Becky McMichael

Absolutely barmy ideals from the Lib Dems that set out to penalise the region where they hjold the most seats....seems to go against all the efforts of Visit Cornwall and the RDA too in terms of getting investment, innovation and teleworkers into the region.... - Becky McMichael

Greenslade on the failure of media to repoort on each other - Becky McMichael

PR Week's editor on the continued move from journalism into PR for several high prfofile figures and whther this trend is sustainable. - Becky McMichael

mommy bloggers - looking at ethics and wonga - Becky McMichael

Recession pushes LinkedIn's UK membership past three million - Brand Republic News. Read Recession pushes LinkedIn's UK membership past three million and other marketing news at Brand Republic. Brand Republic - first for Advertising, Marketing, Media and PR - Becky McMichael

Ben Ayers from ITV.com interviewed on using social media to connect with fans and engage a broadcast audience. Interesting read. - Becky McMichael

How to get the most out of LinkedIn for PR - review notes from the PRCA seminar focusing on events, groups and making industry spokepeople visible - Becky McMichael

Nice blog post pulling together a case study for MacDonalds and their use of social media for engagement. The presentation linked is open about learnings but light on results/measurement. - Becky McMichael

Finally you can put context onto your Twitter lists maling it easy to see which ones are worth following. - Becky McMichael

Absolutley brilliant way of putting info about where you live into your hands...thanks to @wadds for the link - Becky McMichael

"Just had a big debate with ‘im indoors about this….. Possibly the same answer as stems from how many parenting books have you read? How many playgroups/parent and toddler sessions have you attended? How many online parenting networks have you joined? Can you honestly say the inner workings of being a parent interests you? beyond being a dad and what your own kids are up to? I expect it is a simple question of supply and demand…..Dads are interested in their own kids and “being a dad” but not to the extent of benchmarking themselves against other dads (which a lot of these mum networks and communities enable us to do) or reseaching the inner psychology of parenting…. My husband will spend 4/5 hours online researching a basic tech product (i.e. a case for the computer he is building) before he buys it….but he has yet to even look at the Ofsted site once regarding our daughters school? Does he care? Of course but not enough to need to dig beneath the info I provide him. Ditto..." - Becky McMichael

Analyst house cites following as killer mobile apps between now and 2012: No. 1: Money Transfer No. 2: Location-Based Services No. 3: Mobile Search No. 4: Mobile Browsing No. 5: Mobile Health Monitoring No. 6: Mobile Payment No. 7: Near Field Communication Services No. 8: Mobile Advertising No. 9: Mobile Instant Messaging No. 10: Mobile Music - Becky McMichael

Trendwatching.com - consumer trends firm - defines the big trends for the coming 12 months in a usable, "applyable" way Business as unusual Urbany Real time reviews Fluxury Mass mingling Eco-easy Tracking and alerting Embedded generosity Profile myning Maturialism - Becky McMichael

A great range of toys for under a tenner from ages 0-7+ - Becky McMichael

Not sure I agree brand owners are far behind clients in the high end luxury goods market? - Becky McMichael

"Agree 100%…have hidden most people who do this in my fb feed as I end up reading updates twice or missing updates from friends due to work related Twitter statuses. I find it a bit like email / press release blasts…irritating at best!" - Becky McMichael

He's "baffling and abrasive, and at times sounds directly personal." No shit. Suralun upsets yet another huge wodge of the business demographic.... - Becky McMichael

"And if people *really* hate it, they just need to drag status updates button to the top of the left hand column (therefore setting it to the old default) rather than newsfeed which is the current/new default setting...." - Becky McMichael

How to Give a Lousy Presentation Fifteen ways to make a bad impression - Becky McMichael

New online mag Reputation online in same stable as NMA - Becky McMichael

Cheers @r_c - Becky McMichael

Cheers for this @r_c - Becky McMichael

"Congrats Simon - nice one!" - Becky McMichael

"It's interesting, back home in Australia, journalists would have stopped publishing photos and names of the victim, accused and their family members as soon as the police state that a crime 'may' be a sexual crime, especially in regards to crimes against children." - Becky McMichael

Via @wadds - Becky McMichael

via @wadds - Becky McMichael

"I think there is a serious difference between the BNP and the Christian Police Association Association and Black Police Association. The BNP are actively promoting racial discrimination, whereas the other two are groups of people who support interests, races or beliefs, but they do not advocate getting rid of another race, interest or belieg." - Becky McMichael

"Good question…..and you answered it yourself really. We need journalists who are brave enough to expose stories when for the public good without protecting their social life / neighbours….bloggers are never going to replace that role IMO. The skillset is totally different – you need to be trained, brave and hungry for career success to succeed as a local journalist, to succeed as a local blogger you need a community interest and time on your hands. Very different roles to fill." - Becky McMichael