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Book me to speak at your event if you want a thoughtful, engaging and honest account.

I mainly speak about media, politics and social affairs, with a particular interest in youths, gangs and crime.

I have spoken at a number of places with completely different audiences including: schools, colleges, universities, community centres, hostels, rehabs, pupil referral units, young offender units, prisons, churches and halls.

I am available to present either my own ...

Your 10am meeting is about to commence and you have not managed to find that killing story that will make everyone pay attention. You have hour an hour to find something or face sitting in the meeting listening to your smug colleagues with their wonderful contacts/leads for the news agenda. It does not have to be like this!

Using the online world, you can find out what people are looking at in terms of news content, find the latest information regarding ...

I have been busy learning how to use different social networks, listening to conversations between experts in the field, connecting with friends and viewing everything in between. Social media is a part of my online life, as soon as I have launched Firefox, the search bar registers all of my favourite sites. Now I must confess there are two reasons for me being online, one is work related and the other is purely for personal benefit. What I am learning ...

“In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.”

The term lurking is a web based concept used to describe the activity of someone who looks in on conversations without responding online. The concept of lurking was first used to describe users who would read news in online groups but never really felt the need to actively participate in any way. As ...

It would be great to be able to speak directly to a group of people who hung onto your every word, gave you their complete attention and listened intently to what you had to say.

Imagine the potential of having participants who suggested, questioned and informed your business decisions which could then be generated into added value.

The power of social media is enabling more people to leverage that power through online communities. An online community is essentially a group of people ...

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The Digital Marketing Group is an online community based on Linkedin.com, the social network for professionals. The group was set up in March 2008 and currently has over 24,000 members registered to the group.

John Horsley is the founder and manager for the group and thought that all of the online activity should be translated into an offline meet up in a pub. So after signing in through ...