Jaimie Dobson Internet Consultant

Industry Day

Tomorrow morning I’m taking part in some ‘Mock Interviews’ which form part of an ‘Industry Day’ at a local high school; the Appleton Academy, in Bradford.
The whole idea is to help these kids get some real experience of job interview situations by exposing them to some of the potential questions and feedback from real [...]

Going Cold Turkey Without Twitter

Despite being active on Twitter for just over a year now, I’m starting to feel that it’s not the social media site for me or my business and as such, to test this theory out; I’ve decided to see if I miss it and kill my Twitter activity for a period of a month [...]

Sorry, I Don’t Do Email!

In today’s business world most people have the staple tools needed to conduct business with other people on a daily basis.
Such tools inevitably include the obligatory diary (electronic or otherwise), a pen, a notepad (electronic or otherwise), a telephone (landline and mobile), a car or some other form of vehicle and of course a computer [...]

Google Spits its Dummy Out!

Internet Explorer, the decreasingly omnipotent web browser from Microsoft with its old version 6 has been causing Google some issues recently and as result the search giant has spat its dummy out and is phasing out support for the old browser.
The story started earlier last month when many of Google’s gMail accounts, run by Chinese [...]

Expo..se Yourself to Curry Favour

Last Thursday was a busy day of networking and presenting as I made an exhibition of myself at the GRID* Enterprise Expo in Bradford.
The day started off in the dark at 7 am with a busy business networking breakfast courtesy of proNet which was immediately followed in the same building by a small business Expo [...]

Tell Me Your Twitter Success Stories

I’m reaching out to my network, which of course includes you, my blog readers; for some real life success stories on how you are using or have used, Twitter for the benefit of your business.
Why am doing this? Well quite simply I want to use your stories as practical, real-life case studies during my Twitter [...]

Stir Crazy? Are You Nuts?

My regular blog readers and Twitter followers will know that over the last couple of weeks or so I’ve been housebound as far as work is concerned because of the atrocious weather conditions which in themselves have been exacerbated by the combination of ungritted roads and sub-zero temperatures.
Subsequently I have now [...]

Boost for Bradford Businesses at Expo

The first major business event of 2010 in Bradford will be held at the Park Lane Centre on January 28 and its an event iNet inSights is supporting and exhibiting at.
The event will include a networking breakfast featuring an “ask the experts” Problem Platform, an exhibition, free information and advice sessions and several workshops and [...]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Unless you live in a cave without a TV, internet connection or even a window; then you’ll have noticed that the UK is currently covered in a blanket of snow which is causing major disruption to the working populous and economic damage to the tune of £600 million a day according to the FSB (video [...]

How to Control Who Sees What in Your Facebook Profile

If you use Facebook for a mixture of business and pleasure; then you’re best controlling who sees what on your profile if you don’t want to embarrass yourself or lose credibility with your clients and business associates. But how do you go about it?
I’ve been on Facebook, the omnipotent social networking site for [...]