January 2009

A few seconds of fame

by TheSourceress on 29/01/2009

I attended Enhance Media’s Online Recruitment Conference “The Year Ahead” today. We were treated to talks from the likes of Facebook, YouTube and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others. Of course, the main focus was on recruitment, and I’ll talk more about that over on dot.green tomorrow. I was interested to learn that the UK has 14 million [...]

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5 Guilty Pleasures

by TheSourceress on 26/01/2009

To me, a guilty pleasure is something you know you shouldn’t like or do – but you do anyway – much to the confusion of those around you. I don’t think there is any better way to get to know someone. So, to help you understand me, here are my top five Guilty Pleasures… Cold [...]

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Your chance to get a one-of-a-kind scarf

by TheSourceress on 23/01/2009

I will knit scarves for the first seven people to ask for one. Just send me your colour choices, and let me know where I should send it – it’s that simple.If nothing else it will kick-start my passion for knitting again (you must remind me to share pictures of some of my projects). I [...]

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My Twitter followers have spoken and I will aim to attend Bristol Twestival on 12th February 2009. The results of my poll are as follows: The Venue for Bristol Twestival was announced today and it looks awesome. I was surprised to see it will be held in a bowling alley – totally unexpected and original. [...]

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Which Twestival Should I Attend?

by TheSourceress on 17/01/2009

I am facing a quandary - which Twestival to attend? Not sure what a Twestival is? See my post ‘I am looking forward to another Twestival‘ I live within easy distance of 4 twestivals – so which should I go to? I attended the first Twestival in London last September, so feel a degree of loyalty there. [...]

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Thames Valley Tweeters

by TheSourceress on 16/01/2009

I don’t have any real life friends on Twitter. There – I’ve said it. So this week I have been looking for local tweeters. To my surprise it wasn’t that hard to find folks in the Wiltshire/Berkshire area of the UK to follow – and some interesting folks I found too. My search has led [...]

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January Portwait

by TheSourceress on 14/01/2009

I discovered a fun website yesterday called Portwiture. You enter your Twitter user name and it makes you a pretty picture. By taking the words you have used most in your recent tweets it searches for photos with similar tags on Flickr and puts them all together. This is my Portwait: I can’t quite figure out [...]

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