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Yesterday I attended a meeting organised by the Isle of Man Business and Innovation Centre. The purpose was to discuss connecting women in business on the Island.  A healthy crowd of female entrepreneurs came out to discuss the possiblity of creating formal network.
Jo Dobson, director of strategic relationships at Coventry University Enterprise was on hand and gave a presentation about the challenges for women in business and the benefits of working together through an organised network.  Sharon Kissack of Ambitions Recruitment also spoke. She gave an overview of her own …

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Paul Ballard hit me with a meme earlier this week.  In the spirit of sharing a bit about myself and fun, here we go!
Top three non work websites:

Weightwatchers
Facebook
eBay

Top three karaoke songs:

American Woman
Moonage Dayream
Like a virgin

Top three weekend cocktails:

G&T
Gin and Tonic
Gordons and Scheweppes

The three people I am tagging are:

Nickop
Kathryn B
Leo

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I’m chuffed to have been invited to take part on the upcoming FIR live panel discussion on the value of PR for start ups.  Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz are co-chairing and so far the panel includes:

Rob Lane, CEO, Overlay TV (and several previous startups)
Mike Manuel, PR practitioner, Voce Communications
Katie Paine, KD Paine & Partners, PR measurement guru
Me!

The panel comes as a result of several high-profile posts suggesting startup CEOs can do their own PR just as effectively as a professional. Well I’ve worked for more than my share of …

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Well actually it is ThirdThursday and we should be having a meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club today. But with all the travelling I’ve been doing lately, it kind of sneaked up on me.  I only just realised a minute ago that today should be the day. So what should we do? Meet another day?  Wait till next month? Let me know!
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Third Thursday – August 2008
Loving the Velvet Lobster on the Quay

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Thanks to everyone who came out to today’s Isle of Man Social Media Club Third Thursday lunch.  We covered everything from libel to Graffiti to Podcasting to Technorati to the need for a great foodie blog in the Isle of Man.  As always I learned a lot.  I hope you all did too.  See the pix below!
Thanks to Owen, Nickop, Leo, Derek, Steve, Jamie, Jen, Chris and Rob, Charlotte and Charlie for coming out.
UPDATE:  See Owen’s take on the event.

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Tonight, at the Sefton hotel in Douglas, Martin Blackburn, emergency planning officer will be speaking to the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
It’s a subject that we all worry about and then put to the back of our heads – what would really happen if the Island suffered a major incident?  How would the hospitals cope?  Could the communications systems stand the barrage of extra calls?  Is there enough food and water to go round?  If you have staff members who are in the Civil Defence Corps how would you cope with …

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It’s been seven years since I stood in stunned silence watching through my office window as the  the Pentagon burned. It’s been seven years since I first understood why the word terrorism is such an accurate descriptor.
Life has moved on, but each year on September 11, I think about the people who died that day, and how nothing and no one has ever been quite the same.
I remember those fantastic women I was working with in DC and wonder where life has taken them over the years.
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Astonishingly few companies within the UK are benefiting from the advantages that come from world class accredited service management. This talk presents a distillation of the best practices in IT service delivery. We will touch on existing and developing global IT standards, and IT performance aspirations including ITIL v3 and related best practice methodologies
About the speaker
Peter Wheatcroft is a management consultant, currently tasked with improving the management of IT departments in a number of prestigious blue chip companies.
While a director at Alliance & Leicester plc, he achieved World Class status …

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