Bit.ly – the funny little abbreviation you probably see all over the place, especially in Tweets. You may already know that it is the de facto URL shortening software (80million of them are shared every day), but there are loads of other benefits, some of which I will go through in this blog.

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I recently read an article entitled Leverage your CRM to its full potential. To say I loved it is an understatement. We work on all sorts of CRM projects and this article really “nailed it” for me. But as I always add my two-pennies worth, I thought I would here…

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I have recently been working with a client to help them roll out a new CRM solution to 150 users. Their goal? To help them work towards their company £goals and help transition their business into a national recruiter with a standardised methodology of working. All great stuff.

We have delivered the training to them, so I thought I would share my thoughts on how to train new tech into a business

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The Recruiters Network is running an event on 24 May 2012 – for recruitment decision makers who are looking to change or purchase a new CRM system in the next 6-8 months and/or wish to learn about innovative technologies in the recruitment market.

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A large part of my day is spent helping clients find the most appropriate solution for their requirements – varying from ATS, CRM, funky tech to make them more organised and rich… This inevitably involves a number of demonstrations or as one of my clients recently called it: “a Beauty Parade of solutions”. These are a great way of looking at your options, but I have seen some go horribly wrong.

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So, you run your own business, you are a director of the department responsible for IT, or you are an IT Manager: you have outsourced your support to an IT Support business (so many of your are – and focussing your attentions on the running of the business, rather than the tech supporting it… good call!) But how do you extract yourself from them if things go bad?

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I adore listening to podcasts… I totally love them. I rarely have time to read mags and newspapers. A toddler and a busy business makes for very little free time, but I still want to know what’s going on out there and keep up to date with culture. I always advise ,my clients to think about this medium…

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Being a busy mum and running my own business means reading blogs and other online content research are often demoted in favour of all of my other day to day activities. So, I use Google Reader to help me gather online content and read it on the fly.

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Want to receive emails alerting you to new content on the web? (And don’t want to spend all day surfing?) Perhaps you want to keep up to date on your clients, or products on the market? Google Alerts is perfect for this.

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I have been using Nutshell Mail for a while now, and wanted to share it with you. I was finding the plethora of mails from each of my social media streams becoming unmanageable and NutshellMail solved this.

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