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Lipstick Melodies of Pete Doherty

Louis — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:52:32 +0000

I was invited to the Shepherd’s Bush Empire last night by a good friend to see The Lipstick Melodies.

They happened to be supporting Pete Doherty. Pete eventually turned up just after 10pm, more than fashionably late. It was lucky that he actually made it. He had the most awful compere between the acts. The compere can best be described as a fat bloke from Glasgow who told us he could take anything the audience threw at him, which was lucky as he was reduced to being Donkey Kong dodging beer missiles. The crowd was ready to riot when Mr Doherty showed up but after a shaky start he managed to get a singalong started with the audience.

The

Circular Halo in St Lucia

Louis — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:51:16 +0000

At lunch time today at The Body Holiday (the amazing St Lucia Spa Fitness & Wellness Vacation / Holiday destination) Andrew, Craig and I witnessed a High Sun Parhelic circle alternatively known as a Circular Halo

According to wikipedia it is formed by the refraction of sunlight through cloud suspended ice crystals rather than raindrops. I had my doubts about the ice crystals as the air temperature was in the 90s today and there was a distinct lack of wind, but thanks to the internet I have found a similar example from La Silla astronomical observatory in Chile on 27 January 1990.

Apparently, only arc sections are usually visible so there are…

Man Utd ban players from Twitter

Louis — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:35:24 +0000

Manchester United banned its players from Twitter. The accounts of Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, and Darren Fletcher have already been removed as the club attempts to control the flow of news from the locker room and prevent players speaking out of turn. In September 2009, striker Wayne Rooney ranked as one of the football’s most prolific twitter-users, with 22,200 followers….

My thoughts on this personal and brand reputation management issue on this are….

While Manchester United’s decision to ban its players from Twitter will prevent leaking sensitive information and reduce the risk to its reputation from ill-considered player tweets, simply banning everyone from the platform is a myopic, draconian measure.

What Sir Alex Ferguson has failed to realise is the…

Reputation Management Book Inspiration

Louis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:49:27 +0000

Wide awake at 4 in the morning for the third night in a row, I knew the idea that was niggling at me wasn’t going to go away. I’d have to see it through.

I was inspired to put pen to paper – that’s quite a challenge for me, as the team I work with know; my dyslexia makes it a challenge to write down what I’m thinking articulately. The excitement about helping people harness the explosive growth of search engines, for their own personal empowerment won.

How we find the information that is important to us has changed dramatically over the last ten years. We now live in a world where the internet and search engines dominate…

Reputation Management Book

Louis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:48:04 +0000

Some of you make know that I’ve been writing a book with Roy Murphy about Personal Reputation Management.

It’s nearly there.

It’s being self published so we’ve sent a draft to the printer to define the format of the book. The three formats are coming back soon then it will be time to commit the first few thousand copies.

Here’s a quick peak at the cover of the book.

We’re going to make it available in multiple formats. Obviously the printed book, but also various ebook formats.