Archives: 'Social Media'

David Petherick — November 27, 2009, 11:53 am

I still don’t take meetings. I make tweetings. @clarocada

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” – Dave Barry. I don’t do meetings any more. I used to do a lot of meetings. But not any more…

David Petherick — January 21, 2009, 11:32 pm

Do marketers smell the social media coffee yet?

This article was originally published at Digital Biographer, also written by David Petherick, in January 2008. That’s Eight. A year ago. I think it still is very relevant a year later…
The significance of social networks is now starting to become obvious to the marketing departments of larger companies, largely due to two factors – [...]

David Petherick — August 26, 2008, 2:52 pm

Cyber-Biographer makes it to Russia.

I am a ‘Keeber-biograph‘, meaning Cyber-Biographer.
This is a term I came across when searching through Yandex, the Russian search engine that’s been in the news recently, and which is rightly proud of the fact that, thanks to them, Russia is one of only four countries where Google is not the significantly dominant search engine.
The [...]

David Petherick — March 28, 2008, 4:42 pm

Why it’s taken me 13 years to decide to attend The Next Web in Amsterdam…

I first got involved in online business around 1995, when I first bought a copy of .net magazine, after I got curious about a startup company in the next room of our business centre, who said they were hosting websites.
Back in 1995, most business people I spoke to didn’t know what a website was, let [...]

David Petherick — August 13, 2007, 9:00 am

Listen to David Petherick on BBC Radio Wales

I was pleased to hear that my interview outlining my work as “The Digital Biographer” with Adam Walton of BBC Radio Wales broadcast on 12th August sounded good, was a good three minutes longer than expected, and was ‘top of the hour’ as the lead story.

You can listen in online (I take up around the [...]

David Petherick — August 9, 2007, 1:20 pm

David Petherick (Digital Biographer) interviewed on BBC Radio Wales

David Petherick is the Founder and CEO of Clarocada – but he’s also “The Digital Biographer” according to the BBC…
“I’ve no idea how the 25 minutes or so I spent talking with Adam Walton of BBC Radio Wales yesterday will sound when it’s edited down to perhaps 5, but we had a good old [...]

David Petherick — January 27, 2007, 12:00 pm

Inside Ecademy BlackStar: Belonging, Sharing, Winning (25 days of Attitude)

Why do people stop reading your Ecademy Profile? | Complete Certainty: Reliable Business Hosting | Do you Speaka Plain English? | Seats at David Petherick’s Barcelona Masterclass: 12-Feb-07

My Testimonials | My MarketPlace Adverts    

1: Act 1 Scene 1
On the 28th of January 2006, I joined Ecademy, having come across it [...]

David Petherick — July 24, 2006, 6:00 pm

Ecademy’s Thomas Power gets his online profile Makeover…

Thomas Power is Chairman of Ecademy, and has perhaps one of the the most-visited profiles online at the community. However, Thomas asked Clarocada to makeover his profile. Why was that?