Personal and Group Networking | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 When unfriending is the friendly thing to do https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/12/when-unfriending-is-the-friendly-thing-to-do/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7837 I’m not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere.  I don’t have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and available on my Blackberry I don’t have anyone to talk to on it except charming young ladies who seem to be short of […]

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]]> Good Lord…it’s Easter! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/04/good-lord-its-easter/ Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:04:13 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1362 Or, as a Christian, I should really say “Good, Lord…it’s Easter!” I have to say that I didn’t expect to find myself writing a blog post today – it happened by accident after I’d approved a few comments on this blog and thrown out some spam.  For the last 2 months I’ve been on something […]

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]]> The Death of Google Wave https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/the-death-of-google-wave/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:06:45 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1242 Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of ‘development has been stopped’. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunity to change their minds if the pressure gets too much. The demise of Wave doesn’t actually surprise me; I’m surprised […]

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]]> Social Search…waste of time? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/social-search-waste-of-time/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:23:06 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=990 I’m a big user of search engines.  Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they’re still the best out there.  I hope that Bing – despite the daft name – will one day come to challenge Google, but until then, I just Google.  It’s been interesting […]

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]]> Social Media and the mob https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/social-media-and-the-mob/ Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:53:01 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1019 One of my favourite films is ‘The Fisher King’ – one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio ‘Shock Jock’ Jack Lucas repeats the words ‘Forgive me’ from a TV script he is hoping to star in, whilst, unbeknown to him, thoughtless comments made by himon his radio show have driven a […]

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]]> The Birth of a Brand https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/the-birth-of-a-brand/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:46:29 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=992 As some of you may know, I’m on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in that area, such as ‘Yorkshire in Bloom’ and other community activities, such as Community Gardening.  I’m very proud of my involvement […]

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]]> Google Buzz and Google’s incursion in to Social Networking https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/02/google-buzz-and-googles-incursion-in-to-social-networking/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:44:13 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=776 Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens ‘The Borg’.  It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate everything they encountered and absorb the technology of other companies in to their own.  Well, like the Borg in Trek, Microsoft […]

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]]> Facebook friends limited to 150 by the brain? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/facebook-friends-limited-to-150-by-the-brain/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:10:07 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=670 As anyone who’s ever heard me rant about the ‘numbers game’ side of networking – especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook – will testify, I’m a great believer in quality rather than quantity, and until the software on such sites can do more for me than it currently does in terms […]

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]]> The dumbing down of Twitter starts here? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/the-dumbing-down-of-twitter-starts-here/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:40:03 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=633 I’ll admit it.  Deep within me is a snob.  As far as I’m concerned, the online world started heading down hill when you no longer had to know how to install a full TCP/IP stack to use the Internet.  Most online discussion forums should, in my opinion, have an intelligence test before you’re allowed to […]

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]]> The Social Media Numbers Game https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/the-social-media-numbers-game/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:08:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=507 I’m old enough to have used an address book and still have a Rolodex on the phone table.  When I actually sit down and think about the people with whom I have reasonably regular ‘quality’ contact in a 3 month period, either electronically or face to face, it probably amounts to no more than a […]

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