Allister Frost, Future-Ready Mindset Expert, Speaker and Author

Category: Future-Ready Mindset

  • Two Billion People and Counting

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    Two Billion People and Counting

    When a young Mark Zuckerberg gave ‘theFacebook’ its debut at Harvard College in February 2004, few would have dared imagine it could ever turn a profit, let alone survive for more than a few years. Yet here we are, almost 5,000 days later, and Facebook, as it’s now known the world over, has just steamrollered…

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    Updates in the new LinkedIn desktop experience

    Microsoft secured final regulatory approval of its $26.2 billion cash-only acquisition of LinkedIn in December 2016, and the social network has already undergone some substantial changes. There’s an all-new look for desktop users. Out goes that tired, dated menu bar, and in comes a new, simplified iconography-based navigation bar.   LinkedIn’s messaging tools also now…

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    Why you’ll love Audiense (formerly SocialBro)

    Last week SocialBro, a Twitter and Instagram audience insight and monitoring platform, rebranded as Audiense. Once you get past the post-modern deliberate misspelling* of a well-known word, I think you’re going to enjoy finding out more about this tool. First up, aside from the free Twitter Analytics tool, the best bits of Audiense have to be paid…

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    Murder Games – help your children stay safe online

    Last night saw the first airing of a gripping and heart-wrenching BBC Three TV docu-drama about the life and death of Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old Surrey schoolboy who was lured to his death after being groomed online. I’d urge all parents to make time to watch the TV programme; it’s incredibly insightful and will open…

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    The Enduring Power of Moore’s Law

    At Wild Orange Media we’re often asked (and caught talking) about Moore’s Law, the exponential growth principle first documented in 1965. Gordon Moore. then just a young engineer, made the far-sighted observation that technology, largely powered by silicon microelectronics, could repeatedly double in power in a fairly predictable way. It’s a principle that has shaped…

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    Is Your Chosen Career Heading for Extinction?

    A question from the future: “Grandad, is it really true that people used to fly planes and work in shops? We’re learning about it at school.” Change is everywhere in a technology-charged world. Many of the jobs people do have changed or disappeared completely in recent years, and some will be barely remembered a few years…

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    Why Marketers are to Blame for the Demise of Customer Service

    A whopping 65% of  social media users now think it’s better to contact companies through social networking sites than to make a call to its call centre. The reasons are obvious: social media sites seem to attract a faster response, they’re quick and easy to use and, er, remind me, how do I make an old-fashioned phone…

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    Using LinkedIn Better and More Cheaply

    Change is never easy, is it? But if there’s one New Year’s resolution I’m proudly sticking to, it’s the one about making better use of LinkedIn to manage my personal brand and find like-minded people to support me in my work. And, for many smart people, using LinkedIn better takes little more than remembering to use the…

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    Buffer for Not for Profits (half price)

    I remain a big fan of Buffer, the social media posting tool that makes it easy to cue up posts to social networks like Twitter and LinkedIn , and then drips them out to your desired schedule. Having the ability to schedule posts like this is an important way to maintain posting momentum to selected channels…

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    The Home Wi-fi for Safe Internet Access for Kids

    At Internet Safety School we’re always on the lookout for simple ways that parents can help their children live their digital lives to the full, while staying safe and secure. So we’re excited to be a backer of an innovative new product called Kidokey (also the first—and long-awaited—product we know that rhymes with okeydokey!). Kidokey…